Bouffalo Lab

This example functions as a light bulb device type, with on/off and level capabilities and uses a test Vendor ID (VID) and a Product ID (PID) of 0x8005.

The steps were verified on Bouffalo Lab BL602 and BL706 development board.

  • BL602-IoT-Matter-V1, here to purchase.
  • BL602-NIGHT-LIGHT
  • XT-ZB6-DevKit
  • BL706-NIGHT-LIGHT
  • BL706DK
  • BL704LDK

Warning: Changing the VID/PID may cause compilation problems, we recommend leaving it as the default while using this example.

BL602

BL602/BL604 is combo chip-set for Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and BLE 5.0 base-band/MAC.

BL602-IoT-Matter-V1

BL70x

BL70x is combo chip-set for BLE and IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee/Thread.

  • BL702/BL706 has 14dbm tx power and is recommended for routing devices. SDK uses BL702 as a general name.
  • BL702L/BL704L is designed for low power application. SDK uses BL702L as a general name.

BL70x has fully certified with all Thread 1.3 features, included Thread SSED and Thread Border Router with DUA manager.

XT-ZB6-DevKit

Initial setup

The following steps in this document were validated on Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 and Mac OS.

  • Install dependencies as specified in the connectedhomeip repository: Building Matter.

  • Clone and initialize the connectedhomeip repo

    git clone https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip.git
cd connectedhomeip
git submodule update --init --recursive
source ./scripts/activate.sh -p bouffalolab

    After environment setup Bouffalo Lab flash tool, bflb-iot-tool, imports under this environment. If not, please try scripts/bootstrap.sh -p bouffalolab for matter environment update.

  • Setup build environment for Bouffalo Lab SoC

    Run setup.sh to install Bouffalo Lab SDK to /opt/bouffalolab_sdk

    cd third_party/bouffalolab/repo
sudo bash scripts/setup.sh

    Please execute following command to export BOUFFALOLAB_SDK_ROOT before building.

    export BOUFFALOLAB_SDK_ROOT=/opt/bouffalolab_sdk

Build CHIP Lighting App example

The following steps take examples for BL602-IoT-Matter-V1 BL602 board, BL706DK BL706 board, and BL704LDK BL704L board .

  • Build lighting app with UART baudrate 2000000

    ./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl602-iot-matter-v1-light build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl706dk-light build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl706dk-light-ethernet build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl706dk-light-wifi build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl704ldk-light build

  • Build lighting app with UART baudrate 115200

    ./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl602-iot-matter-v1-light-115200 build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl706dk-light-light-115200 build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl704ldk-light-light-115200 build

  • Build lighting app with RPC enabled and UART baudrate 115200.

    ./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl602-iot-matter-v1-light-rpc build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl706dk-light-light-rpc build
./scripts/build/build_examples.py --target bouffalolab-bl704ldk-light-light-rpc build

Build options with build_examples.py

  • -shell, enable UART command line
  • -115200, set UART baudrate to 115200 for log and command line
  • -rpc, enable Pigweed RPC feature
  • -cdc, enable USB CDC feature, only support for BL706, and can't work with Ethernet Board
  • -resetCnt, enable feature to do factory reset when continues power cycle is greater than 3
  • -mfd, enable Matter factory data feature, which load factory data from DTS region and MFD partition
    • Please contact to Bouffalo Lab for Matter factory data support.
  • -mfdtest, enable Matter factory data module, but only load factory data from FactoryDataProvider.cpp file.
  • -wifi, to specify that connectivity Wi-Fi is enabled for Matter application.
  • -ethernet, to specify that connectivity Ethernet is enabled for Matter application.
  • -thread, to specify that connectivity Thread is enabled for Matter application.
  • -mot, to specify to use openthread stack under third_party/openthread/repo
    • Without -mot specified, Matter Thread will use openthread stack under Bouffalo Lab SDK
  • -fp, to specify to enable frame pointer feature to print call stack when hit an exception for debug purpose.

Download image

  • Using script *.flash.py.

    After building gets done, python script *.flash.py will generate under build output folder, such as

    • chip-bl602-lighting-example.flash.py for BL602
    • chip-bl702-lighting-example.flash.py for BL702
    • chip-bl702l-lighting-example.flash.py for BL702L

    Note 1, *.flash.py should be ran under Matter build environment; if python module bflb_iot_tool is not found, please try to do source scripts/bootstrap.sh or install as pip3 install bflb-iot-tool.
    Note 2, different build options will generate different output folder.

    Download operation steps as below, please check help option of script for more detail.

    • Connect the board to your build machine

    • Put the board to the download mode:

      • Press and hold the BOOT button.
      • Click the RESET or EN button.
      • Release the BOOT button.

    • Type following command for image download. Please set serial port accordingly, here we use /dev/ttyACM0 as a serial port example.

      • bl602-iot-matter-v1, bl706dk and bl704ldk without additional build options

        ./out/bouffalolab-bl602-iot-matter-v1-light/chip-bl602-lighting-example.flash.py --port /dev/ttyACM0
./out/bouffalolab-bl706dk-light/chip-bl702-lighting-example.flash.py --port /dev/ttyACM0
./out/bouffalolab-bl704ldk-light/chip-bl702l-lighting-example.flash.py --port /dev/ttyACM0

      • bl706dk with 115200 baudrate setting

        ./out/bouffalolab-bl706dk-light-115200/chip-bl702-lighting-example.flash.py --port /dev/ttyACM0

      • To wipe out flash and download image, please append --erase to the above command.

        ./out/bouffalolab-bl602-iot-matter-v1-light/chip-bl602-lighting-example.flash.py --port /dev/ttyACM0 --erase
./out/bouffalolab-bl706dk-light-115200/chip-bl702-lighting-example.flash.py --port /dev/ttyACM0 --erase
./out/bouffalolab-bl704ldk-light/chip-bl702l-lighting-example.flash.py --port /dev/ttyACM0 --erase

        Note, better to append --erase option to download image for BL602 develop board at first time.

  • Using Bouffalo Lab GUI flash tool BLDevCube, please download on this page.

    • Hold BOOT pin and reset chip, put the board in download mode.
    • Select DTS file;
    • Select Partition Table under examples/platform/bouffalolab/bl602/flash_config or examples/platform/bouffalolab/bl702/flash_config
    • Select Firmware Bin;
    • Select Chip Erase if need;
    • Choose Target COM port.
    • Then click Create & Download.

Run the example

  • You can open the serial console. For example, if the device is at /dev/ttyACM0 with UART baudrate 2000000 built:

    ```shell
picocom -b 2000000 /dev/ttyACM0
```

  • To reset the board, Click the RESET or EN button.

  • To toggle the light bulb’s on/off state by clicking BOOT button, which also toggles the LED.

  • To do factory reset, press BOOT button over 4 seconds, release BOOT button after led blink stopped.

Test Commission and Control with chip-tool

Please follow chip_tool_guide and guide to build and use chip-tool for test.

Prerequisite for Thread Protocol

Thread wireless protocol runs on BL706, which needs a Thread border router to connect Thread network to Wi-Fi/Ethernet network. Please follow this guide to setup a raspberry Pi border router.

After Thread border router setup, please type following command on Thread border router to get Thread network credential.

sudo ot-ctl dataset active -x

Commissioning over BLE

  • Reset the board or factory reset the board

  • Enter build out folder of chip-tool and running the following command to do BLE commission

    • BL602

      ./chip-tool pairing ble-wifi <node_id> <wifi_ssid> <wifi_passwd> 20202021 3840

    • BL706

      ./chip-tool pairing ble-thread <node_id> hex:<thread_operational_dataset> 20202021 3840

    <node_id>, which is node ID assigned to device within chip-tool fabric
    <wifi_ssid>, Wi-Fi network SSID
    <wifi_passwd>, Wi-FI network password
    <thread_operational_dataset>, Thread network credential which running sudo ot-ctl dataset active -x command on border router to get.

Cluster control

After successful commissioning, cluster commands available to control the board.

  • OnOff cluster

    The following command shows to toggle the LED on the board

    $ ./chip-tool onoff toggle <node_id> 1

  • Level cluster

    The following command shows to move level to 128.

    $ ./chip-tool levelcontrol move-to-level 128 10 0 0 <node_id> 1

  • Color cluster

    The following command shows to change hue and saturation to 240 and 100

    $ ./chip-tool colorcontrol move-to-hue-and-saturation 240 100 0 0 0 <node_id> 1

  • Identify Light

    The following command shows to identify the board 10 seconds

    ./chip-tool identify identify 10 <node_id> 1

Test OTA software upgrade with ota-provider-app

Please take guide for more detail on ota-provider-app build and usage.

Create the Matter OTA image with Bouffalolab OTA bin.xz.hash format image

  • Bouffalo Lab OTA bin.xz.hash format image

    • Build Bouffalo Lab OTA image as following execution using python script *.flash.py under firmware build out folder, shell ./<output_firmware_name>.flash.py --build After script executed, a folder ota_images and an image FW_OTA.bin.xz.hash will be generated. FW_OTA.bin.xz.hash is compressed with hash verification for build out firmware.

    • bin.xz.hash image

      After compile done, the build script will call <output_firmware_name>.flash.py to generate Bouffalo Lab OTA format image as above, and put it under out folder with name likes <output_firmware_name>.bin.xz.hash

  • Build Matter *.ota OTA image with Bouffalo Lab OTA image under connectedhomeip repo folder

    $ ./src/app/ota_image_tool.py create -v 0xFFF1 -p 0x8005 -vn 10 -vs "1.0" -da sha256 <FW_OTA.bin.xz.hash> lighting-app.ota

    lighting-app.ota should have greater software version which is defined by macro CHIP_DEVICE_CONFIG_DEVICE_SOFTWARE_VERSION in CHIPProjectConfig.h

Start ota-provider-app

  • Start ota-provider-app for lighting-app.ota

    $ rm -r /tmp/chip_*
$ ./chip-ota-provider-app -f <path_to_ota_bin>/lighting-app.ota

    where <path_to_ota_bin> is the folder for lighting-app.ota.

  • Provision ota-provider-app with assigned node id to 1

    $ ./chip-tool pairing onnetwork 1 20202021
$ ./chip-tool accesscontrol write acl '[{"fabricIndex": 1, "privilege": 5, "authMode": 2, "subjects": [112233], "targets": null}, {"fabricIndex": 1, "privilege": 3, "authMode": 2, "subjects": null, "targets": null}]' 1 0

Start ota software upgrade

  • BLE commission BL602/BL702 lighting if not commissioned.
  • Start OTA software upgrade process
    ./chip-tool otasoftwareupdaterequestor announce-otaprovider 1 0 0 0 <node_id_to_lighting_app> 0
    where <node_id_to_lighting_app> is node id of BL602/BL702 lighting app.
  • After OTA software upgrade gets done, BL602/BL702 will get reboot automatically.

Run RPC Console

  • Build chip-console following this guide

  • Start the console

    $ chip-console --device /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 2000000

  • Get or Set the light state

    rpcs.chip.rpc.Lighting.Get()

    rpcs.chip.rpc.Lighting.Set(on=True, level=128)