Matter Arm Mbed OS All Clusters Example Application

The Arm Mbed OS All Clusters Example demonstrates device commissioning process and all available clusters control.

You can use this example as a reference for creating your own application.

The example is based on Matter and Arm Mbed OS, and supports remote access and control of device over a WiFi network.

The example behaves as a Matter accessory, in other words a device that can be paired into an existing Matter network and can be controlled by this network.

• Overview
  • Bluetooth Low Energy advertising
  • Bluetooth Low Energy rendezvous
  • WiFi provisioning
• Run application
  • Environment setup
  • Building
  • Flashing
  • Debugging
  • Testing
    • Serial port terminal
    • CHIP Tools
  • Supported devices
    • Notes
• Device UI
  • Notes

Overview

The Matter device that runs the All Clusters application is controlled by the Matter controller device over WiFi. By default, the Matter device is disconnected, and it should be paired with Matter controller and get configuration from it. Actions required before establishing full communication are described below.

Bluetooth Low Energy advertising

To commission the device onto a Matter network, the device must be discoverable over BLE. The BLE advertising starts automatically after device boot-up.

Bluetooth Low Energy rendezvous

In Matter, the commissioning procedure (called rendezvous) is done over BLE between a Matter device and the Matter controller, where the controller has the commissioner role.

To start the rendezvous, the controller must get the commissioning information from the Matter device. The data payload is encoded within a QR code, printed to the UART console.

WiFi provisioning

The last part of the rendezvous procedure, provisioning involves sending the network credentials from the Matter controller to the Matter device. As a result, device is able to join the network and communicate with other devices in the network.

Run application

Environment setup

Before building the example, check out the Matter repository and sync submodules using the following command:

$ git submodule update --init

Building the example application requires the use of ARM Mbed-OS sources and the arm-none-gnu-eabi toolchain.

The Cypress OpenOCD package is required for flashing purpose. Install the Cypress OpenOCD and set env var OPENOCD_PATH before calling the flashing script.

cd ~
wget https://github.com/Infineon/openocd/releases/download/release-v4.3.0/openocd-4.3.0.1746-linux.tar.gz
tar xzvf openocd-4.3.0.1746-linux.tar.gz
export OPENOCD_PATH=$HOME/openocd

Some additional packages may be needed, depending on selected build target and its requirements.

The VSCode devcontainer has these components pre-installed. Using the VSCode devcontainer is the recommended way to interact with Arm Mbed-OS port of the Matter Project.

Please read this README.md for more information about using VSCode in container.

To initialize the development environment, download all registered sub-modules and activate the environment:

$ source ./scripts/bootstrap.sh
$ source ./scripts/activate.sh

If packages are already installed then you just need to activate the development environment:

$ source ./scripts/activate.sh

Building

The All Clusters application can be built in the same way as any other Matter example ported to the mbed-os platform.

• by using generic vscode task:

Command Palette (F1) => Run Task... => Run Mbed Application => build => all-clusters-minimal-app => (board name) => (build profile) => (build type)

• by calling explicitly building script:

${MATTER_ROOT}/scripts/examples/mbed_example.sh -c=build -a=all-clusters-minimal-app -b=<board name> -p=<build profile> -T=<build type>

Both approaches are limited to supported evaluation boards which are listed in Supported devices paragraph.

Mbed OS defines three building profiles: develop, debug and release. For more details please visit ARM Mbed OS build profiles.

There are also three types of built application: simple, boot and upgrade:

• simple - standalone application, mainly for developing and testing purpose (all building profiles are supported)
• boot - signed application + bootloader, it supports booting process and can be use for firmware update (only release building profiles is supported)
• update - signed application, application image can be used for firmware update (only release building profiles is supported)

When using the building script, it is possible expand the list of acceptable targets; this may be useful for rapid testing of a new mbed-targets.

Flashing

The All Clusters application can be flashed in the same way as any other Matter example ported to mbed-os platform.

The Open On-Chip Debugger is used to upload a binary image and reset the device.

• by using VSCode task:

Command Palette (F1) => Run Task... -> Run Mbed Application => flash => all-clusters-minimal-app => (board name) => (build profile)

• by calling explicitly building script:

${MATTER_ROOT}/scripts/examples/mbed_example.sh -c=flash -a=all-clusters-minimal-app -b=<board name> -p=<build profile>

• by using VSCode launch task:

Run and Debug (Ctrl+Shift+D) => Flash Mbed examples => Start Debugging (F5)  => (board name) => all-clusters-minimal-app => (build profile)

The last option uses the Open On-Chip Debugger to open and manage the gdb-server session. Then gdb-client (arm-none-eabi-gdb) upload binary image and reset device.

It is possible to connect to an external gdb-server session by using a specific ‘Flash Mbed examples [remote]’ task.

Debugging

Debugging can be performed in the same was as with any other Matter example ported to mbed-os platform.

The Open On-Chip Debugger is used to to open and manage the gdb-server session. Then gdb-client (arm-none-eabi-gdb) connect the server to upload binary image and control debugging.

Run and Debug (Ctrl+Shift+D) => Debug Mbed examples => Start Debugging (F5) => (board name) => all-clusters-minimal-app => (build profile)

It is possible to connect to an external gdb-server session by using specific ‘Debug Mbed examples [remote]’ task.

Testing

Serial port terminal

The application traces are streaming to serial output. To start communication open a terminal session and connect to the serial port of the device. You can use mbed-tools for this purpose (mbed-tools):

```
mbed-tools sterm -p /dev/ttyACM0 -b 115200 -e off
```

After device reset these lines should be visible:

```
[INFO][CHIP]: [-]Mbed all-clusters-minimal-app example application start
...
[INFO][CHIP]: [-]Mbed all-clusters-minimal-app example application run
```

The all-clusters-minimal-app application launched correctly and you can follow traces in the terminal.

CHIP Tools

Read the MbedCommissioning to see how to use different CHIP tools to commission and control the application within a WiFi network.

Supported devices

Manufacturer	Hardware platform	Build target	Platform image	Status	Platform components
Cypress Semiconductor	CY8CPROTO-062-4343W	CY8CPROTO_062_4343W		✔	LEDsBoard has only one usable LED (LED4) which corresponds to USER LED from UI. ButtonsUnused SliderUnused

Notes

• More details and guidelines about porting new hardware into the Matter project with Mbed OS can be found in MbedNewTarget
• Some useful information about HW platform specific settings can be found in all-clusters-minimal-app/mbed/mbed_app.json.
  Information about this file syntax and its meaning in mbed-os project can be found here: Mbed-Os configuration system)

Device UI

This section lists the User Interface elements that you can use to control and monitor the state of the device. These correspond to PCB components on the platform image.

USER LED shows the overall state of the device and its connectivity. The following states are possible:

• Short Flash On (50 ms on/950 ms off) — The device is in the unprovisioned (unpaired) state and is waiting for a commissioning application to connect.

• Rapid Even Flashing (100 ms on/100 ms off) — The device is in the unprovisioned state and a commissioning application is connected through Bluetooth LE.

• Short Flash Off (950ms on/50ms off) — The device is fully provisioned, but does not yet have full network or service connectivity.

• Solid On — The device is fully provisioned and has full network and service connectivity.

Notes

Some of the supported boards may not have sufficient number PCB components to follow above description. In that case please refer to Supported devices section and check board's ‘Platform components’ column for additional information about the limitation.