CHIP RW61x All-clusters Application

The all-clusters example implements a server which can be accessed by a CHIP controller and can accept basic cluster commands.

The example is based on Project CHIP and the NXP RW612 SDK, and provides a prototype application that demonstrates device commissioning and different cluster control.

Introduction

The RW61x all-cluster application provides a working demonstration of the RW610/RW612 board integration, built using the Project CHIP codebase and the NXP RW612 SDK.

The example supports:

  • Matter over Wi-Fi
  • Matter over Openthread
  • Matter over Wi-Fi with OpenThread Border Router support.

Hardware requirements

For Matter over Thread configuration :

  • For [NXP RD-RW612-BGA] board: BLE/15.4 antenna (to plug in Ant1)
  • For [NXP FRDM-RW612] board: no external antenna needed (embedded PCB antenna)

For Matter over WiFi configuration :

  • For [NXP RD-RW612-BGA] or [NXP RD-RW610-BGA] board: BLE antenna (to plug in Ant1) + Wi-Fi antenna (to plug in Ant2)
  • For [NXP FRDM-RW612] board: no external antenna needed (embedded PCB antenna)

For Matter over Wi-Fi with OpenThread Border Router :

  • For [NXP RD-RW612-BGA] board: BLE/15.4 antenna (to plug in Ant1) + Wi-Fi antenna (to plug in Ant2)
  • For [NXP FRDM-RW612] board: no external antenna needed (embedded PCB antenna)

Building

In order to build the Project CHIP example, we recommend using a Linux distribution (supported Operating Systems are listed in BUILDING.md).

  • Make sure that below prerequisites are correctly installed (as described in BUILDING.md))
sudo apt-get install git gcc g++ pkg-config libssl-dev libdbus-1-dev \
     libglib2.0-dev libavahi-client-dev ninja-build python3-venv python3-dev \
     python3-pip unzip libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libreadline-dev
  • Step 1: checkout NXP specific submodules only
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip$ scripts/checkout_submodules.py --shallow --platform nxp --recursive
  • Step 2: activate local environment
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip$ source scripts/activate.sh

If the script says the environment is out of date, you can update it by running the following command:

user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip$ source scripts/bootstrap.sh
  • Step 3: Init NXP SDK(s)
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip$ third_party/nxp/nxp_matter_support/scripts/update_nxp_sdk.py --platform common

Note: By default update_nxp_sdk.py will try to initialize all NXP SDKs. Arg “-- help” could be used to view all available options.

user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip$ cd examples/all-clusters-app/nxp/rt/rw61x/

Building with Matter over Wifi configuration on RW61x

  • Build Matter-over-Wifi configuration with BLE commissioning (ble-wifi) :
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/all-clusters-app/nxp/rt/rw61x$ gn gen --args="chip_enable_wifi=true" out/debug
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/all-clusters-app/nxp/rt/rw61x$ ninja -C out/debug

Building with Matter over Thread configuration on RW612

  • Build Matter-over-Thread configuration with BLE commissioning.
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/all-clusters-app/nxp/rt/rw61x$ gn gen --args="chip_enable_openthread=true chip_inet_config_enable_ipv4=false chip_config_network_layer_ble=true" out/debug
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/all-clusters-app/nxp/rt/rw61x$ ninja -C out/debug

Building with Matter over Wifi + OpenThread Border Router configuration on RW612

This configuration supports the Thread Border Router management cluster to provision the Thread credentials. Enabling the Matter CLI in order to control the Thread network on the Border Router is optional but recommended for other features like the Thread credential sharing.

Note that the Thread Border Router management cluster is only supported on the thermostat application for now.

  • Build Matter with Border Router configuration with BLE commissioning (ble-wifi) :
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/all-clusters-app/nxp/rt/rw610$ gn gen --args="chip_enable_wifi=true chip_enable_openthread=true nxp_enable_matter_cli=true" out/debug
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/all-clusters-app/nxp/rt/rw610$ ninja -C out/debug

General information

The resulting output file can be found in out/debug/chip-rw61x-all-cluster-example.

Optional GN options that can be added when building an application:

  • To enable the secondary network commissioning interface, the arguments chip_enable_secondary_nwk_if=true and chip_device_config_thread_network_endpoint_id=2 must be added to the gn gen command. Note that this is only supported when building the Matter over Wifi + OpenThread Border Router configuration. Note that is only supported on the on the thermostat application for now.
  • To enable the matter CLI, the argument nxp_enable_matter_cli=true must be added to the gn gen command.
  • By default, the NXP RD-RW612-BGA board revision will be chosen. To switch to NXP FRDM-RW612 board revision, the argument board_version=\"frdm\" must be added to the gn gen command.
  • To build the application in debug mode, the argument is_debug=true optimize_debug=false must be added to the gn gen command.
  • To build with the option to have Matter certificates/keys pre-loaded in a specific flash area the argument nxp_use_factory_data=true must be added to the gn gen command. (for more information see Guide for writing manufacturing data on NXP devices.
  • To build the application with the OTA Requestor enabled, the arguments chip_enable_ota_requestor=true no_mcuboot=false must be added to the gn gen command. (More information about the OTA Requestor feature in OTA Requestor README

Manufacturing data

See Guide for writing manufacturing data on NXP devices

Other comments:

The all cluster app demonstrates the usage of encrypted Matter manufacturing data storage. Matter manufacturing data should be encrypted using an AES 128 software key before flashing them to the device flash.

Using DAC private key secure usage: Experimental feature, contain some limitation: potential concurrent access issue during sign with dac key operation due to the lack of protection between multiple access to ELS crypto module. The argument nxp_enable_secure_dac_private_key_storage=true must be added to the gn gen command to enable secure private DAC key usage with S50. nxp_use_factory_data=true must have been added to the gn gen command

DAC private key generation: The argument chip_convert_dac_private_key=1 must be added to the gn gen command to enable DAC private plain key conversion to blob with S50. nxp_enable_secure_dac_private_key_storage=1 must have been added to the gn gen command

ELS contain concurrent access risks. They must be fixed before enabling it by default.

Flashing and debugging

Flashing the All-Clusters application

In order to flash the application we recommend using MCUXpresso IDE (version >= 11.6.0).

  • Import the previously downloaded NXP SDK into MCUXpresso IDE.

Right click the empty space in the MCUXpresso IDE “Installed SDKs” tab to show the menu, select the “Import archive” (or “Import folder” if a folder is used) menu item.

  • Import the connectedhomeip repo in MCUXpresso IDE as Makefile Project. Use none as Toolchain for Indexer Settings:
File -> Import -> C/C++ -> Existing Code as Makefile Project
  • Configure MCU Settings:
Right click on the Project -> Properties -> C/C++ Build -> MCU Settings -> Select RW612 -> Apply & Close

MCU_Set

  • Configure the toolchain editor:
Right click on the Project -> C/C++ Build-> Tool Chain Editor -> NXP MCU Tools -> Apply & Close

toolchain

  • Create a debug configuration :
Right click on the Project -> Debug -> As->SEGGER JLink probes -> OK -> Select elf file
  • Debug using the newly created configuration file.

Testing the example

CHIP Tool is a Matter controller which can be used to commission a Matter device into the network. For more information regarding how to use the CHIP Tool controller, please refer to the CHIP Tool guide.

To know how to commission a device over BLE, follow the instructions from chip-tool's README.md ‘Commission a device over BLE’.

To know how to commissioning a device over IP, follow the instructions from chip-tool's README.md ‘Pair a device over IP’

Matter over wifi configuration :

The “ble-wifi” pairing method can be used in order to commission the device.

Matter over thread configuration :

The “ble-thread” pairing method can be used in order to commission the device.

Matter over wifi with openthread border router configuration :

In order to create or join a Thread network on the Matter Border Router, the TBR management cluster or the otcli commands from the matter CLI can be used. For more information about using the TBR management cluster follow instructions from ‘Using the TBR management cluster’. For more information about using the matter shell, follow instructions from ‘Testing the all-clusters application with Matter CLI’.

In this configuration, the device can be commissioned over Wi-Fi with the ‘ble-wifi’ pairing method.

NVM

By default the file system used by the application is NVS.

Testing the all-clusters application without Matter CLI:

  1. Prepare the board with the flashed All-cluster application (as shown above).

  2. The All-cluster example uses UART1 (FlexComm3) to print logs while running the server. To view raw UART output, start a terminal emulator like PuTTY and connect to the used COM port with the following UART settings:

    • Baud rate: 115200
    • 8 data bits
    • 1 stop bit
    • No parity
    • No flow control

  3. Open a terminal connection on the board and watch the printed logs.

  4. On the client side, start sending commands using the chip-tool application as it is described here.

Testing the all-clusters application with Matter CLI enabled:

The Matter CLI can be enabled with the all-clusters application.

For more information about the Matter CLI default commands, you can refer to the dedicated ReadMe.

The All-clusters application supports additional commands :

> help
[...]
mattercommissioning     Open/close the commissioning window. Usage : mattercommissioning [on|off]
matterfactoryreset      Perform a factory reset on the device
matterreset             Reset the device
  • matterfactoryreset command erases the file system completely (all Matter settings are erased).
  • matterreset enables the device to reboot without erasing the settings.

Here are described steps to use the all-cluster-app with the Matter CLI enabled

  1. Prepare the board with the flashed All-cluster application (as shown above).

  2. The matter CLI is accessible in UART1. For that, start a terminal emulator like PuTTY and connect to the used COM port with the following UART settings:

    • Baud rate: 115200
    • 8 data bits
    • 1 stop bit
    • No parity
    • No flow control

  3. The All-cluster example uses UART2 (FlexComm0) to print logs while running the server. To view raw UART output, a pin should be plugged to an USB to UART adapter (connector HD2 pin 03 for [NXP RD-RW612-BGA] board and J5 pin 4 (mikroBUS: TX) for [NXP FRDM-RW612] board), then start a terminal emulator like PuTTY and connect to the used COM port with the following UART settings:

    • Baud rate: 115200
    • 8 data bits
    • 1 stop bit
    • No parity
    • No flow control

  4. On the client side, start sending commands using the chip-tool application as it is described here.

For Matter with OpenThread Border Router support, the matter CLI can be used to start/join the Thread network, using the following ot-cli commands. (Note that setting channel, panid, and network key is not enough anymore because of an Open Thread stack update. We first need to initialize a new dataset.)

> otcli dataset init new
Done
> otcli dataset
Active Timestamp: 1
Channel: 25
Channel Mask: 0x07fff800
Ext PAN ID: 42af793f623aab54
Mesh Local Prefix: fd6e:c358:7078:5a8d::/64
Network Key: f824658f79d8ca033fbb85ecc3ca91cc
Network Name: OpenThread-b870
PAN ID: 0xb870
PSKc: f438a194a5e968cc43cc4b3a6f560ca4
Security Policy: 672 onrc 0
Done
> otcli dataset panid 0xabcd
Done
> otcli dataset channel 25
Done
> otcli dataset commit active
Done
> otcli ifconfig up
Done
> otcli thread start
Done
> otcli state
leader
Done

OTA Software Update

Over-The-Air software updates are supported with the RW61x all-clusters example. The process to follow in order to perform a software update is described in the dedicated guide ‘Matter Over-The-Air Software Update with NXP RW61x example applications’.

Thread Border Router overview

To enable Thread Border Router support see the build section.

The complete Border Router guide is located here.