Matter MCXW72 Lighting Example Application

Matter MCXW72 Lighting Example Application#

For generic information related to on/off light application, please see the common README.

Introduction#

This is an on/off lighting application implemented for an mcxw72 device.

The following board was used when testing this Matter reference app for a mcxw72 device:

MCXW72-EVK

Please see MCXW72 product page for more information.

Device UI#

This reference app is using matter-cli to send commands to the board through a UART interface.

interface

role

UART0

Used for logs

UART1

Used for matter-cli and flashing

The user actions are summarized below:

matter-cli command

output

mattercommissioning on

Enable BLE advertising

mattercommissioning off

Disable BLE advertising

matterfactoryreset

Initiate a factory reset

matterreset

Reset the device

Additional UART interface#

You need a USB-UART bridge to make use of the second UART interface. The pin configuration is the following:

  • JP11 pin 1 (UART0 TX)

  • JP12 pin 1 (UART0 RX)

  • J11 pin 4 (GND)

The state feedback is also provided through LED effects:

widget

effect

description

LED2

short flash on (50ms on/950ms off)

The device is in an unprovisioned (unpaired) state and is waiting for a commissioner to connect.

LED2

rapid even flashing (100ms period)

The device is in an unprovisioned state and a commissioner is connected via BLE.

LED2

short flash off (950ms on/50ms off)

The device is fully provisioned, but does not yet have full network (Thread) or service connectivity.

LED2

solid on

The device is fully provisioned and has full network and service connectivity.

RGB LED

on

The OnOff attribute of the On/Off cluster is true (simulating device turned on).

RGB LED

off

The OnOff attribute of the On/Off cluster is false (simulating device turned off).

The user actions are summarized below:

button

action

output

SW2

short press

Enable BLE advertising

SW2

long press

Initiate a factory reset (can be cancelled by pressing the button again within the factory reset timeout limit - 6 seconds by default)

SW3

short press

Toggle attribute OnOff value

SW3

long press

Clean soft reset of the device (takes into account proper Matter shutdown procedure)

The example application provides a simple UI that depicts the state of the device and offers basic user control. This UI is implemented via the general-purpose LEDs and buttons built in the MCXW72 EVK board.

Building#

Manually building requires running the following commands:

user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip$ export NXP_SDK_ROOT=<path_to_SDK>
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip$ cd examples/lighting-app/nxp/mcxw72
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/lighting-app/nxp/mcxw72$ gn gen out/debug
user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/git/connectedhomeip/examples/lighting-app/nxp/mcxw72$ ninja -C out/debug

Please note that running gn gen out/debug without --args option will use the default gn args values found in args.gni.

After a successful build, the elf and srec files are found in out/debug/. See the files prefixed with chip-mcxw72-light-example.

Flashing#

We recommend using JLink to flash both host and NBU cores. To support this device, a JLink patch shall be applied, so please contact your NXP liaison for guidance.

core

JLink target

host

KW47B42ZB7_M33_0

NBU

KW47B42ZB7_M33_1

Note: NBU image should be written only when a new NXP SDK is released.

Flashing the NBU image with blhost#

  1. Install Secure Provisioning SDK tool using Python:

    pip install spsdk

    Note: There might be some dependencies that cause conflicts with already installed Python modules. However, blhost tool is still installed and can be used.

  2. Updating NBU Firmware for Wireless examples

    It is necessary to work with the matching NBU image for the SDK version of the application you are working with. This means that when you download your SDK, prior to loading any wireless SDK example, update your NBU image with the SDK provided binaries:

    middleware\wireless\ieee-802.15.4\bin\mcxw72\mcxw72_nbu_ble_15_4_dyn.bin

    1. Place your device in ISP mode:

      • Press and hold SW4 (BOOT_CONFIG)

      • Press and hold SW1 (RST)

      • Relax SW1

      • Relax SW4

    2. Once the device is connected, you may find the assigned port by running:

      nxpdevscan

    3. Run the blhost command to write the bin file:

      blhost -p <assigned_port> write-memory 0x48800000 <path_to_SDK>/middleware/wireless/ieee-802.15.4/bin/mcxw72/mcxw72_nbu_ble_15_4_dyn.bin

Flashing the host image#

Host image is the one found under out/debug/. It should be written after each build process.

Steps:

  • Plug MCXW72-EVK board into the USB port

  • Connect JLink to the device:

    JLinkExe -device KW47B42ZB7_M33_0 -if SWD -speed 4000 -autoconnect 1

  • Run the following commands:

    reset
halt
loadfile chip-mcxw72-light-example.srec
reset
go
quit

Factory data#

Factory data is written in IFR0, sector 1 at a predefined offset, using blhost. The expanded address is 0x2002680:

blhost --port <serial_port> flash-erase-region 0x2002680 <factory_data_len>
blhost --port <serial_port> write-memory 0x2002680 <factory_data_bin>

where <serial_port> is the OS assigned port, <factory_data_len> the length of factory data binary in bytes and <factory_data_bin> the path to the factory data binary.

OTA#

Please see OTA guide.