can't get dimmable light to work

[tribbles3]

Trying to get the dimmable light node to work with a flic twist "button". The flic twist sees the dimmable light as a matter device and I am able to select it but I'm not receiving anything when I dimming with the flic twist. I was able to setup on-off light and on-off socket nodes with the flic twist and they are functioning without issue. The flic twist supports dimmable lights via matter as it finds the device properly.

[sammachin]

@tribbles3 Thats strange I've just tested with a flic twist here and some dimmable light nodes, all seems to work fine, which version of the bridge are you running? There were some fixes to the dimmable light in the latest releases

[tribbles3]

0.12.0

What is the firmware version of your flic hub (I'm running 4.3.8)?

[sammachin]

Yep 4.3.8 here,

Does dimming work from another matter controller like apple home or google home (if you have)

[tribbles3]

I have an Apple TV but it is on a different network at the moment so I would have to change that to test it.

[tribbles3]

I was able to connect the device to Apple Home (iPhone app) but I am unable to control it and it shows "No Response" under the item name (in the iPhone app).

[sammachin]

can you share the node config, ideally export it please as well as a screenshot

[sammachin]

Just tested with my dev setup so definitly 0.12 of the bridge and 4.3.8 on the Hub with the Flic Twist, works fine.
Also checked the dimmable light with Apple home just in case and again that works fine.

I think given that you are also having issues with Apple Home it mist be something in your Matter Bridge setup.

[tribbles3]

Are you referring to this config?

[sammachin]

Yes and the config for the dimmer node

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[tribbles3]

I should also mentioned that I am running node-red 4.0.3

[sammachin]

Hmm shouldn’t make a difference but set battery to none and pass through to true or false rather than not set.

If that doesn’t work then set the debug level on the bridge node to debug, restart node red and send me the console output

[tribbles3]

"Hmm shouldn’t make a difference but set battery to none and pass through to true or false rather than not set."

Did that and now the dimmable light can be turned on and off but still not receiving anything when I change the brightness.

[sammachin]

Will need the debug log then, once it’s in debug turn it off and on then change the dimming so we can see the events in the log

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, at 21:07, tribbles3 wrote: "Hmm shouldn’t make a difference but set battery to none and pass through to true or false rather than not set." Did that and now the dimmable light can be turned on and off but still not receiving anything when I change the brightness. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#41 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABNZ7JK4RY2HJBVSUDJJ5T2MKTQRAVCNFSM6AAAAABVYRI4WKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMMJTGM4DAMBXGY>. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[tribbles3]

Something squirrely is going for sure because I just lost the ability to control the On-Off Light

[sammachin]

How are you running node red? Is it in docker or something? It sounds like your fabric data isn’t persisting across restarts, it should be in ~/.matter by default

[tribbles3]

Running node-red in docker. The matter directory location is ~/.matter

[sammachin]

Ah right, is your /root folder persisted between restarts of the container! The standard node red image only persists /data so you’d need to set that as the storage location in the bridge config. And then you’ll need to recommission the bridge to flic and apple home

[tribbles3]

changed the changed it to /data/.matter and I can't get any matter nodes to work. The bridge is recognized and the device connects in the flic app but no data is passed to node-red. If I turn on the debug for the bridge, where/how can I see the debug info? I can get to the cli in the docker container but not sure how to see the node-red console.

[sammachin]

you should be able to use docker attach [CONTAINER NAME] to connect to the console, that won't show history but will show what happens from there on.

[sammachin]

also if you change the storage path you will need to recommission the bridge in the controllers

[tribbles3]

2025-01-25 10:44:20.013 DEBUG InteractionServer Received invoke request from udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995 with 1 commands: OnOffLight(0x2)/unknown(0x8)/0x4, suppressResponse=false

2025-01-25 10:44:20.014 DEBUG InteractionServer Invoke from udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995: OnOffLight(0x2)/unknown(0x8)/0x4 unsupported path: Status=195

2025-01-25 10:44:20.016 DEBUG ExchangeManager Message » id: 46995/19427/77046349 type: 1/9 acked: 179221263 reqAck: true duplicate: false payload: 152800360115350137002400022401082402041835012400c31818181824ff0c18

This is what shows up in the node-red console when I send an "On" command from the flic twist to the On-Off Light node. The node does not generate an output.

[tribbles3]

2025-01-25 10:54:43.611 DEBUG MessageExchange New exchange channel: udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995 protocol: 1 id: 19428 session: secure/46995 peerSessionId: 46995 active threshold ms: 4000 active interval ms: 300 idle interval ms: 300 maxTransmissions: 5 useMrp: true

2025-01-25 10:54:43.612 DEBUG MessageExchange Message « id: 46995/19428/179221276 type: 1/8 acked: undefined reqAck: true duplicate: false payload: 15280028013602153700240002250100032402061835012400002401cb24020024030124040118181824ff0b18

2025-01-25 10:54:43.615 DEBUG InteractionServer Received invoke request from udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995 with 1 commands: OnOffLight(0x2)/unknown(0x300)/0x6, suppressResponse=false

2025-01-25 10:54:43.616 DEBUG InteractionServer Invoke from udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995: OnOffLight(0x2)/unknown(0x300)/0x6 unsupported path: Status=195

2025-01-25 10:54:43.618 DEBUG ExchangeManager Message » id: 46995/19428/77046360 type: 1/9 acked: 179221276 reqAck: true duplicate: false payload: 15280036011535013700240002250100032402061835012400c31818181824ff0c18

2025-01-25 10:54:43.628 DEBUG MessageExchange New exchange channel: udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995 protocol: 1 id: 19429 session: secure/46995 peerSessionId: 46995 active threshold ms: 4000 active interval ms: 300 idle interval ms: 300 maxTransmissions: 5 useMrp: true

2025-01-25 10:54:43.630 DEBUG MessageExchange Message « id: 46995/19429/179221277 type: 1/8 acked: undefined reqAck: true duplicate: false payload: 152800280136021537002400022401082402041835012400e4340124020124030118181824ff0b18

2025-01-25 10:54:43.641 DEBUG InteractionServer Received invoke request from udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995 with 1 commands: OnOffLight(0x2)/unknown(0x8)/0x4, suppressResponse=false

2025-01-25 10:54:43.642 DEBUG InteractionServer Invoke from udp://fe80::9b06:e5e6:8a8f:1110%enp0s3:40685 on session secure/46995: OnOffLight(0x2)/unknown(0x8)/0x4 unsupported path: Status=195

2025-01-25 10:54:43.644 DEBUG ExchangeManager Message » id: 46995/19429/77046361 type: 1/9 acked: 179221277 reqAck: true duplicate: false payload: 152800360115350137002400022401082402041835012400c31818181824ff0c18

2025-01-25 10:54:43.649 DEBUG MessageExchange Message « id: 46995/19428/179221278 type: 0/16 acked: 77046360 reqAck: false duplicate: false payload:

2025-01-25 10:54:43.651 DEBUG MessageExchange Message « id: 46995/19429/179221279 type: 0/16 acked: 77046361 reqAck: false duplicate: false payload:

I think I missed some lines in the previous post, this is everything that comes up when the command is sent.

[Apollon77]

Cluster 0x8 is Level control ... so seems the devcie is not correctly setup as a Dimmed Light

[tribbles3]

Nothing is working at this point so I decided to just test the On-Off Light node (mentioned 3 posts up) as that one was working originally.

[sammachin]

@tribbles3 i’m fairly sure your issues are all relating to persistent file storage.

Can you try removing all configuration from node red and from the controller apps then starting over fresh. You need to ensure that the bridge node has a storage path configured that will persist across container restarts,

[tribbles3]

I will give it a try.

[tribbles3]

I have the matter setup in a persistent location. and I am now able to consistently use the on/off function with the On-Off Light node and the Dimmable Light node. The dimming function is still not working but it appears that the flic twist is not even attempting to communicate with the dimmable light node when I operate the twist for adjusting the brightness. It lets me select the proper device in the setup but nothing is showing up in the node-red console with the config in debug mode. The on/off commands show up but nothing else.

[sammachin]

does it work with a regular twist not a push & twist?

[tribbles3]

Yes, I tested it using both. I am going to try it with Apple homekit.

[tribbles3]

Apple recognizes it as a dimmable light but shows "No Response" when I try to use the device.

[sammachin]

Can you create a simple flow that shows the problem and then share that, I’d like to try and recreate it here. It’s very strange

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[tribbles3]

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I have two different bridges setup, one connected to the flic hub and the other to apple. The "socket" and "light" nodes work with flic doing on/off but the "dlite" node doesn't receive anything from flic when attempting to do dimming (using the debug bridge setting and looking at the node-red console). The "dimmablel" node is recognized by apple as a dimmable light but shows "No Response" on the apple side.

[sammachin]

Having 2 bridge nodes configured will likely cause issues unelss you disable one of them while using the other.
You can connect a bridge to more than one controller at a time though so you should only really ever need one.

[tribbles3]

I only added the second bridge to do the apple test as I didn't see a way to generate a QR code for the apple connection.