Using Home Assistant Companion App with Matter

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Hello!

I’m just getting started with Home Assistant. My very first attempt to connect a device via the Matter protocol failed miserably! Does anyone here have experience with the Home Assistant Companion app (downloaded from the F-Droid Store)? The troubleshooting information in the app mentions, among other things, that it won’t work with “de-Googled” devices.

Problem description:

I want to connect a new Matter device to my Home Assistant. To do this, I open the Home Assistant Companion app. There, I go to Settings → Matter → Add Device → New Device. And here I get a message telling me to install the ‘Home Assistant Companion app’ (which I’m already in!) from the Google Play Store. Here I have the option to open the Google Play Store link, which takes me (back) to the app, or to click the link to the Apple App Store, or simply tap OK, which then takes me to an overview page.

The Troubleshooting Guide states, among other things, that a Google account is required and that devices that have been “de-Googled” will not work. While searching online, I also found the following entry on GitLab: Matter over Thread device commissioning flow fails (some logcat exceptions) · Issue #3859 · home-assistant/android · GitHub.

Question:

Is anyone currently using the Home Assistant (Companion) app and able to successfully add Matter devices to the network with it? Thank you very much!

Best regards and thanks!

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The Home Assistant App comes from F-Droid store? If so I would expect it would work with a de-googled phone. What is the purpose of this app I am unfamiliar with it?

Edit: What does this comment mean: [quote=“mathias.schmidt, post:1, topic:81716”]
Here I have the option to open the Google Play Store link, which takes me (back) to the app, or to click the link to the Apple App Store
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Sounds like this is not a F-droid app. So if it is a google app it may not work.

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Hi,

Download it from Aurora Store or AppLounge, the F-Droid’s version is a minimal version. Not sur, it will be work like you want.

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Did you get it working?

For matter support in the home assistant app you need the full version of the app not the minimal version.
But It seems E/os/ does not have the the necessary components to handle the matter request(google play services). This kinda suck and makes met not want to use matter.
Did anybody get passed this issue.

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I am interested in using HA with matter devices as well. SO maybe it would be good to create dev request to look closer at this issue?

EDIT:
I added my matter device from googled phone. Then it’s fully accessible from Home Assistant application on /e/OS and web app as well.

Maybe it will help someone.

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