Matter + BLE scanning

[sfemat]

Hi,

I see the Matter CHIP integration uses BLE for commissioning, so to advertise a ble service the documentation advises to use NUS.

What about scanning for ble devices and connecting to them?

[sfemat]

I'm testing the Matter Bridge application and trying to add Openthread as the transport of Matter instead of WIFI, but when I do it errors out with the usual uknown hci command.

Here is where I try to enable thread:

CONFIG_CHIP_WIFI=n
CONFIG_NET_L2_OPENTHREAD=y
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS=y
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_POSIX_NAMES=y
CONFIG_NETWORKING=y
CONFIG_OPENTHREAD_COAP=y
CONFIG_OPENTHREAD_MANUAL_START=n
CONFIG_OPENTHREAD_FTD=y
CONFIG_OPENTHREAD_NORDIC_LIBRARY_FTD=y
CONFIG_OPENTHREAD=y

I'm not sure if it means that this configuration is not yet supported or there is a bug. I suspected it could be the multiprotocol child image not having the central functionality activated, but with the overflow reducing its size by that much seems unfeasible.

[Amanda Hsieh]

The Matter Bridge application doesn't support Openthread-based platforms. 

The main use case for the bridge is to allow integrating the already existing network with Matter. We decided that the Wi-Fi solution covers more use cases, as Thread requires adding additional border router to the network, which was reported to be a problem for some of the existing networks.