Building the example application requires the use of the Espressif ESP32 IoT Development Framework and the xtensa-esp32-elf toolchain.
The VSCode devcontainer has these components pre-installed, so you can skip this step. To install these components manually, follow these steps:
Clone the Espressif ESP-IDF and checkout v4.3 tag
$ mkdir ${HOME}/tools $ cd ${HOME}/tools $ git clone https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git $ cd esp-idf $ git checkout v4.3 $ git submodule update --init $ ./install.sh
Install ninja-build
$ sudo apt-get install ninja-build
Currently building in VSCode and deploying from native is not supported, so make sure the IDF_PATH has been exported(See the manual setup steps above).
Setting up the environment
$ cd ${HOME}/tools/esp-idf $ ./install.sh $ . ./export.sh $ cd {path-to-connectedhomeip}
To download and install packages.
$ source ./scripts/bootstrap.sh $ source ./scripts/activate.sh
If packages are already installed then simply activate them.
$ source ./scripts/activate.sh
Configuration Options
This application uses ESP32-DevKitC
as a default device type. To use other ESP32 based device types, please refer examples/all-clusters-app/esp32
To build the demo application.
$ idf.py build
After building the application, to flash it outside of VSCode, connect your device via USB. Then run the following command to flash the demo application onto the device and then monitor its output. If necessary, replace /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART
(MacOS) with the correct USB device name for your system(like /dev/ttyUSB0
on Linux). Note that sometimes you might have to press and hold the boot
button on the device while it's trying to connect before flashing. For ESP32-DevKitC devices this is labeled in the functional description diagram.
$ idf.py -p /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART flash monitor
Note: Some users might have to install the VCP driver before the device shows up on /dev/tty
.
Quit the monitor by hitting Ctrl+]
.
Note: You can see a menu of various monitor commands by hitting Ctrl+t Ctrl+h
while the monitor is running.
If desired, the monitor can be run again like so:
$ idf.py -p /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART monitor
Commissioning can be carried out using WiFi, BLE or Bypass.
Set the Rendezvous Mode
for commissioning using menuconfig; the default Rendezvous mode is BLE.
$ idf.py menuconfig
Select the Rendezvous Mode via Demo -> Rendezvous Mode
. If Rendezvous Mode is Bypass then set the credentials of the WiFi Network (i.e. SSID and Password from menuconfig).
idf.py menuconfig -> Component config -> CHIP Device Layer -> WiFi Station Options
Now flash the device with the same command as before. (Use the right /dev
device)
$ idf.py -p /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART flash monitor
The device should boot up. When device connects to your network, you will see a log like this on the device console.
I (5524) chip[DL]: SYSTEM_EVENT_STA_GOT_IP I (5524) chip[DL]: IPv4 address changed on WiFi station interface: <IP_ADDRESS>...
Use python based device controller or standalone chip-tool or iOS chip-tool app or Android chip-tool app to communicate with the device.
Note: The ESP32 does not support 5GHz networks. Also, the Device will persist your network configuration. To erase it, simply run.
$ idf.py -p /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART erase_flash
Once ESP32 is up and running, we need to set up a device controller to perform commissioning and cluster control.
Set up python controller.
$ cd {path-to-connectedhomeip} $ ./scripts/build_python.sh -m platform
Execute the controller.
$ source ./out/python_env/bin/activate $ chip-device-ctrl
Establish the secure session over BLE. BLE is the default mode in the application and is configurable through menuconfig.
- chip-device-ctrl > ble-scan - chip-device-ctrl > connect -ble 3840 20202021 135246 Parameters: 1. Discriminator: 3840 (configurable through menuconfig) 2. Setup-pin-code: 20202021 (configurable through menuconfig) 3. Node ID: Optional. If not passed in this command, then it is auto-generated by the controller and displayed in the output of connect. The same value should be used in the next commands. We have chosen a random node ID which is 135246.
Add credentials of the Wi-Fi network you want the ESP32 to connect to, using the AddWiFiNetwork
command and then enable the ESP32 to connect to it using EnableWiFiNetwork
command. In this example, we have used TESTSSID
and TESTPASSWD
as the SSID and passphrase respectively.
- chip-device-ctrl > zcl NetworkCommissioning AddWiFiNetwork 135246 0 0 ssid=str:TESTSSID credentials=str:TESTPASSWD breadcrumb=0 timeoutMs=1000 - chip-device-ctrl > zcl NetworkCommissioning EnableNetwork 135246 0 0 networkID=str:TESTSSID breadcrumb=0 timeoutMs=1000
Close the BLE connection to ESP32, as it is not required hereafter.
- chip-device-ctrl > close-ble
Resolve DNS-SD name and update address of the node in the device controller. Get fabric ID using get-fabricid
and use the decimal value of compressed fabric id.
- chip-device-ctrl > get-fabricid - chip-device-ctrl > resolve <Compressed Fabric ID> 135246
After successful commissioning, use the OnOff cluster command to control the OnOff attribute. This allows you to toggle a parameter implemented by the device to be On or Off.
chip-device-ctrl > zcl OnOff Off 135246 1 0
This demo app illustrates controlling OnOff cluster (Server) attributes of an endpoint and lock/unlock status of door using LED's. For ESP32-DevKitC
, a GPIO (configurable through LOCK_STATE_LED
in main/include/AppConfig.h
) is updated through the on/off/toggle commands from the python-controller
. If you wish to see the actual effect of the commands on ESP32-DevKitC
, you will have to connect an external LED to GPIO.
Enable RPCs in the build using menuconfig:
$ idf.py menuconfig
Enable the RPC library:
Component config → CHIP Core → General Options → Enable Pigweed PRC library
After flashing a build with RPCs enabled you can use the rpc console to send commands to the device.
Build or install the rpc console
Start the console
python -m chip_rpc.console --device /dev/ttyUSB0
From within the console you can then invoke rpcs:
rpcs.chip.rpc.Locking.Get() rpcs.chip.rpc.Locking.Set(locked=True)