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Commissioning Matter devices using Graphene may not work due to the commissioning flow requiring Google Play Services.
I had that problem. If your Home Assistant instance itself has Bluetooth, you can use the manual flow to work around it:
In HA:
Settings -> Connectivity -> Matter -> Options -> Add Manually
There you can type the 11 digit code from your matter device (exactly as it appears, including hyphens) and it will add it without needing a phone.
As mentioned though, your HA instance needs Bluetooth for this. My HA is in a virtual machine so plugging a dongle was less than ideal. I solved it instead using a esp32 Bluetooth proxy over Ethernet.
https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy/
You may(?) also need to set up Matter to use that bluetooth device. There's some reading on it here which could be useful
https://smarthomescene.com/guides/add-matter-devices-home-assistant-without-phone/
Good luck! :)
I'm glad I set it up, because being 'forced' to use a google/apple phone for setting up matter on my local network feels like a really stinky pattern. I'm glad I don't need to :)
Interesting that you can use BT for this. I have a spare googled phone for stuff that doesn't work on graphene that I don't feel like troubleshooting for more than a few hours that I used to add an aqara deadbolt.
Honestly, after all the troubleshooting with matter (I didn't have ipv6 prior and didn't really see a need internally for it) I wish I had gone with a different deadbolt as it was the first matter device and currently still only one.
The normal consumer smartphone pairing flow uses Bluetooth on the phone to do the initial device pairing after you scan the QR code.
You just aren't made aware of that as the user.
The on-server flow also needs Bluetooth therefore, and all that's different is you manually type the numbers from the QR instead of using the camera to scan :)
To set up matter for using bluetooth one just needs to go into the matter-server apps settings and turn on "Enable BLE proxy".
Besides what the name suggests, that also works for local bluetooth dongles.
When I did it, this also involved switching to the beta version because the functionality to use a Bluetooth proxy was kinda new. But I guess we're past that now, hooray~