This example creates a Matter Thread Border Router device using the ESP Matter data model.
See the docs for more information about building and flashing the firmware.
The ESP Thread Border Router board which provides an integrated module of an ESP32-S3 and an ESP32-H2 is required for this example. Alternatively, the ESP32-S3 and ESP32-H2 might be replaced by the ESP32-C6.
The OpenThread RCP should be run on ESP32-H2 of the Border Router board. You can flash it directly:
$ cd /path/to/esp-idf/examples/openthread/ot_rcp
$ idf.py set-target esp32h2 build
$ idf.py -p <port> erase-flash flash
Or you can flash the firmware of ESP32-H2 with esp_rcp_update after enabling AUTO_UPDATE_RCP in menuconfig:
$ cd /path/to/esp-idf/examples/openthread/ot_rcp
$ idf.py set-target esp32h2 build
After flashing the Thread Border Router firmware to ESP32-S3, it will flash the RCP firmware to ESP32-H2 automatically.
After commissioning the Border Router with chip-tool, you can set up the Thread network with ThreadBorderRouterManagement cluster.
$ ./chip-tool generalcommissioning arm-fail-safe 180 1 0x7283 0
$ ./chip-tool threadborderroutermanagement set-active-dataset-request hex:<thread-dataset-tlvs> 0x7283 1
$ ./chip-tool generalcommissioning commissioning-complete 0x7283 0
Then the Thread Border Router will form/join a Thread network and you can commission a Thread End-device to the Thread network with chip-tool.
$ ./chip-tool pairing ble-thread 0x7384 hex:<thread-dataset-tlvs> 20202021 3840