@Emil said in Matter devices showing offline:

@buckyswider _matterc._udp is for commissioning, so that one is only present while the device is "pairable", typically 15 minutes after boot when the device is factory reset (i.e. no Matter pairings yet).

_matter._tcp shall be advertised after the device has been commissioned (paired), one service per "fabric" (i.e. per "hub" it has been commissioned to), as long as it is powered on and connected to the network. If it does not advertise this service, it will not be possible to reach it by Matter controllers. If you don't see this service when you expect to, it seems like a bug in that device.

Maybe you have devices from other Matter brands you can test with?

Thanks @Emil ! I think we posted about the same time, but in case you haven't seen mine I rigged up a Tapo (TPLINK) switch to test. When it powered on, it advertised both TCP and UDP matter protocols. When I connected it to the FLIC hub, neither was showing anymore. I now saw this note, so I powered up the switch again, and it it showing both _tcp and _udp. Now an hour later...it is not showing either. I wonder if this is some anomaly of the scanner app? Oddly, I do now see another device showing _matter._tcp- but that appears to be an Amazon Echo. (IP matches that, but it looks like the scanner is showing a MAC, which doesn't match...aye karumba).

I will keep looking at the services scanner occasionally to see if anything else show up. Maybe I'll pick up a third manufacturer's matter wifi device to see how that behaves.

@djadin14 maybe you got a defect unit. You should contact support at https://flic.io/support and see if you are eligible for a replacement.

@kerry-thacher Hi!

Unfortunately, no. At least not from what we have found.

You can use the "alternative keymap" in the Universal Keyboard action to prevent the on-screen keyboard from hiding while the Flic is connected, however, this also limits what we can do with keyboard commands.

(Note that you need to "Forget" the Flic from iOS Bluetooth device list if you change the keymap for it to have effect).

So Apple requires the device to identify as a keyboard to be able to do certain things, like trigger system wide keyboard commands (which is what this video suggests as a trigger for Shortcuts), and this enforces the behaviour that the on screen keyboard disappears.

Sorry about this, it would certainly be a neat feature to be able to trigger iOS Shortcuts without affecting the on screen keyboard.

@j that is the simplest way to get automatic access to your flows. You can probably set up your manual web hooks if you want, using the http request action, but you need to manually enter the url.

@gabrielmgrossman Please file your issue to https://flic.io/support.

@Emil I believe the groups that you speak of are the lower g groups. Yes, they are dynamic and can change fairly easily (too easily imo) and I think that's why Sonos now has Groups (upper G). In the Sonos app you can create a Group, give it a name, and select the speakers/rooms that you want assigned to that Group. Then when you go to play music, instead of selecting specific speaker/rooms you can select the Group. For example, I have groups named Inside and Outside. The speaker/rooms in those Groups remain the same regardless of how I might dynamically change them throughout the day. But sometimes I might only want music in the Office or Den, which I might dynamically connect as a group. So it seems the question is whether or not Sonos exposes these Groups in their API? And can you send a play command to a Group? Or simply a "player"? I don't know.

@Emil the Sonos API method: https://docs.sonos.com/reference/favorites-getfavorites-householdid

@beachb_sl Hey, curious if you could describe in more detail the type of light/color feedback that you're looking for?

My buttons do have visual feedback. If I click a button that has not been paired the light shows red. If I click a button that has been paired but is not within range of my hub the light shows as yellow/orange. And when the button successfully passes along the click action it blinks green.

@Emil Ah sorry realised I was under the apps settings and not the flic button itself!! Working perfectly and exactly what I had hoped! Thank you.

Their comparison table: https://flic.io/flic-hubs#comparison-table

@andreas-lorentsen

That didn't age very well….
🫣

@gerald don't you see my reply?

@gianni It appears that alexa skills can only be linked to one account. So you should either use the same flic account for all your flics, or you need to create three amazon accounts and link each to each flic account.

@Emil Is this in the ios app? Where can I see it?