Matter Binding

[digitaldan (Dan Cunningham)]

We are waiting on the 5.0 milestone release for some other technical issues, but matter is in the nightly builds, you can always find those on our Jfrog repo. I have not tried this, so use at your own risk, but you can download a recent build and drop it into your addons folder. Just beware, you will want to delete this once you upgrade to a milestone or release as there will definitely be updates.

https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local/org/openhab/addons/bundles/org.openhab.binding.matter/5.0.0-SNAPSHOT/org.openhab.binding.matter-5.0.0-20250604.114656-1.jar

[smitopher (Christopher Smith)]

@digitaldan

1. DO NOT DELETE the Controller Thing, nothing has changed there, and that holds the matter fabric we want to keep (if you do, let me know and we can recover)
2. Using the Main UI (or if using files, comment out the entries) delete all Nodes/Endpoints Things. NOTE: if you already upgraded by accident, you will need to delete each twice (the first time will put it in pending delete state, the second time will force the delete).
3. Remove the matter binding in the MainUI for the marketplace version, if its in the addons folder, remove it from there.
4. Install the official matter binding from the Main UI
5. In the Thing view, click the add button (the plus button), select the Matter binding, and then select “Scan”, do not enter a code.
6. All your existing devices will show up as new Things, click “add all” to add them all back

Thats it, the IDs and channels are mostly the same, so most of you should not have to relink any items.

When adding the things back, they came back with the generic labels. Not an impossible problem, the links to the existing items, which I thankfully did not delete, came back. I can use that as a guide to rename the thing labels

openHAB 5.0.0
Build 4666