Showing device is offline in Google home.

[raweee]

Hi @FezVrasta , tring your node. Great work.

Everything works fine and I'm able to connect node with my Google home app. (Lot of work at Google side)

But in last I'm not able to control it from Google home app. App show "device offline" always.

Anything I'm missing.?

[Apollon77]

There was a Google Firmware update short time ago, since then it got much better, but also matter.js 0.6.0 (just released some days ago) optimized and fixed stuff that could have caused such behaviour .... maybe just a library update is needed

[raweee]

Hi, I tried,
update matter.js to latest version.
google home app was also updated.
but still, it shows offline.

Is their any other issue, i have to solve

[Apollon77]

And yiu are sure that UDP packages can flow directly between the matter.js device network and the google hub network?

Then we need a full debug log from the matter.js side of things to see whats up

[anuptilak]

Hi, I tried, update matter.js to latest version. google home app was also updated. but still, it shows offline.

Is their any other issue, i have to solve

any luck mate? I'm also trying the Google Matter Virtual device but its limitation to run only on Linux making it difficult for me.

[Apollon77]

"running only on Linux"? Why that? Nodejs is cross platform. basically windows, macos and linux works

[anuptilak]

"running only on Linux"? Why that? Nodejs is cross-platform. basically, windows, macos and linux works

No Node-Red I'm talking about. Google Matter Virtual Device developer page has docker created with Linux compatibility and an old Mac Intel one. You can't use any Cloud VM as you need the device in a local Wi-Fi network. As it's VM Linux it doesn't support KVM. If you want to go for KVM then the bare metal server device cost is around $7/hr. Below is the link for your ref.

https://developers.home.google.com/codelabs/matter-device-virtual#2

[Apollon77]

Google Matter Virtual Device developer page

Ok now you lost me ... what you want to do?

[anuptilak]

I'm trying to run a Google Home Matter virtual device that exclusively works on Linux if you refer to the doc you'll get to know that. I have a Mac, and my other teammates have Windows so we can't run Google Home Docker, so I thought that I could run this on an EC2 Ubuntu device that I did. But to link this virtual device to your Google Home app you need the virtual device/device hub to be in the same Wi-Fi network under the same roof, that's a prerequisite. So I thought I could install an Android emulator on Ubuntu and from there I could run this setup but that needs Hardware acceleration i.e. KVM. If you want to for KVM or bare metal machine on AWS or any cloud it costs too much. That's when I found out about the node-red matter stuff and exploring. I hope you got the full context now.

Now, if you could help me, I have installed this repo, and imported the flow but nowhere I could find out, how to connect this to the Google Home App, if you've any docs links for it, please pass it on.

Thanks
Anup Tilak