Building the Matter Chip Tool

chip-tool standalone script can be used as a controller for sending commands to a Matter device as well as commission it. It can be built from the connectedHomeip repo from a simple script

If you followed our prerequisites, you should be in a directory within ~/matter_dev/connectedhomeip

This connectedhomeip folder should be a Matter git repository, bootstraped at least

If you did activate the environement, that will not be a problem

However, if you did not have an such folder please go back to prerequisites and perform all steps again

Building

Go to your connectedhomeip repository and launch the following script:

cd ~/matter_dev/connectedhomeip

Start the build procedure

./scripts/examples/gn_build_example.sh examples/chip-tool out/standalone

This will create a chip-tool executable in connectedhomeip/out/standalone folder

Troubleshoot

If you precisely follow all of the previous sections (including git checkouts and prerequisites), you should have built Python controller

Still, if you run into some of these issues:

• Build fails Make sure you installed dependencies as mentioned in Matter Dev Environment support