Chip Tool is a Matter controller being developed as part of the Connected Home IP project: https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip
The snap packaging makes it easy to run the Chip Tool on Linux to experiment with Matter devices.
For usage instructions and questions, refer to https://github.com/canonical/chip-tool-snap
Stable Releases
For every versioned release of the CHIP project, the snap maintainers initiate a release process for the snap package. This process typically concludes within 4 weeks and includes smoke testing across all supported architectures.
Stable revisions are first published to the latest/candidate channel. Following successful manual testing, the revisions are promoted to the latest/stable channel.
The versioning format for stable revisions is <chip-version>+<build-metadata>. For instance, a release with no snap-specific changes on top of the v1.3.0.0 CHIP release will be versioned as v1.3.0.0+snap. A subsequent revision with only snap-related changes will use v1.3.0.0+snap.1.
Development Releases
Weekly development releases are built from the latest upstream changes in the CHIP project (master branch). These builds are automatically triggered by GitHub workflows.
The resulting revisions are first published to the latest/edge channel. After successful automated smoke testing, the revisions are promoted to the latest/beta channel.
Development releases do not get promoted to the latest/candidate or latest/stable channels.
The versioning for development releases mirrors that of stable releases but uses the short git hash instead of a version tag. This results in a version format like <git-hash>+snap.
Matter is a trademark of Connectivity Standards Alliance: https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 9 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install chip-tool, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install chip-tool
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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