[Feature]: Accessory mode

[BrainDeLook]

Requested feature

Some smart home systems are very picky about connecting bridge configurations and require individual accessories to be connected. I would like to see an accessory mode function

Documentation & Issues

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[kennylevinsen]

Some smart home systems are very picky about connecting bridge configurations and require individual accessories to be connected.

It would be good to provide known examples of such smart home systems.

[BrainDeLook]

It would be good to provide known examples of such smart home systems.

Yandex smart home (Alice)

[hasmar04]

There's every chance that this could solve the issues I have been having in #431 too

[t0bst4r]

I don't think this is related to #431.

Having an "accessory mode" would expose EACH device with its own port and pairing QR code, right?

[BrainDeLook]

Having an "accessory mode" would expose EACH device with its own port and pairing QR code, right?

It would be more likely that the center to which you connect the device would see it not as a bridge, but as a separate accessory, for example: a light bulb, fan, switch.

In the Homekit plugin for HA such function is realized and it is very convenien

[kennylevinsen]

I imagine that any Matter controller has to support bridges in order to function reasonably well with pretty much any border router. What do you mean when you say that it is "picky" about bridge configurations? Do some bridges work, do bridges work sometimes, do they never work, ...?

Having to pair each device manually definitely doesn't sound convenient. The HomeKit bridge has that functionality specifically because a few specific device types are supporter by HomeKit as accessories but not over an accessory bridge for some reason. You'd do it for such individual devices like media players while keeping everything else on the bridge, but that's all very Apple HomeKit specific.

[BrainDeLook]

I imagine that any Matter controller has to support bridges in order to function reasonably well with pretty much any border router. What do you mean when you say that it is "picky" about bridge configurations? Do some bridges work, do bridges work sometimes, do they never work, ...?

Having to pair each device manually definitely doesn't sound convenient. The HomeKit bridge has that functionality specifically because a few specific device types are supporter by HomeKit as accessories but not over an accessory bridge for some reason. You'd do it for such individual devices like media players while keeping everything else on the bridge, but that's all very Apple HomeKit specific.

Once again, Yandex Alice does not support the matter breeches at the moment, at least that's how the support team answered me a month after my question. This system only supports connection of separate accessories - switch, lamp, smart sockets. If you try to connect matter bridge (any one, I tried the same on aqara m1s gen2) then the smart home center just goes into error without finding any of the accessories inside it