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Scope

As part of RDKM Broadband team we want to bringup IoT Barton on a platform of choice and make it available as reference for the community,The platform should be broader enough to support all IoT use cases so that depending on operator requirement he/she can test their specific use cases

Technical capabilities of Barton

Discovery
Pairing
Configuration
Firmware Management
Control
Eventing

Product requirements

Matter SDK
Zigbee
OTBR
BlueZ/BLE
Wi-Fi
USB

Platform requirements

Multiple USB Ports(More than 3 Minimum)
Wi-Fi support with atleast one radio (2.4Ghz)
In Built Bluetooth/BLE (or) USB BT support
In built Zigbee support (or) USB Zigbee support
In built Thread support (or) USB Thread support

Protocols supported

Matter
Zigbee
Thread
OpenHome (Referred in one of the page,to be confirmed)

Available platforms in RDKM RDK-B platforms and One - One Mapping

Platform Name

Bluetooth/BLE

Zigbee

Thread

Wi-Fi

Number of USB Ports

References

Banana Pi R4

No Inbuilt BT & supported only through USB / USB3.0 hub

No Inbuilt support (Supported through USB 3.0 hub)

No Inbuilt supportSupported through USB 3.0 hub,Update got from Austin team)

Yes

1 (can be used for BT)

BT Integration in BPI R4

Bluetooth support in Banana Pi R4(Reference)

Raspberry Pi 4

Yes

Supported through USB

TBD through USB

Yes

4

Banana Pi R4

Does USB 3.0 hub can be used to connect USB Bluetooth,USB Zigbee,USB Thread dongles
- Yes,If so did we confirm
  - BT USB tested - Details can be found here - Bluetooth support in Banana Pi R4(Reference)
  - Zigbee detected through ACM interface by enabling kernel config for acm (CONFIG_USB_ACM)

single USB dongle for Zigbee,Matter

Yes - Silab's xG24 Explorer Kit (brd2703a)

High level Expectation

Thread integration feasibility in RDK-B reference platform

Components involved for thread
- cpcd
  - https://gerrit.teamccp.com/plugins/gitiles/rdk/yocto_oe/layers/meta-rdk-comcast-broadband/+/refs/heads/25Q1_sprint/recipes-connectivity/cpcd
- otbr-agent
  - https://gerrit.teamccp.com/#/c/887931/
- Image install changes in BPI
  - Enable strace in image_install
  - Change the installed cpcd.conf to set disable_encryption to true and uart_device_file to point to where your brd2703a landed in /dev (the default is probably correct). No other changes to cpcd.conf
  - use simplicity commander to upgrade firmware
  - enable otbr-agent.service in device
  - Experiments
    - wpan0 -
      meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/wpan-tools/wpan-tools_0.9.bb:2:HOMEPAGE = "http://wpan.cakelab.org/releases/"

Scope

Technical capabilities of Barton

Product requirements

Platform requirements

Protocols supported

Available platforms in RDKM RDK-B platforms and One - One Mapping

Banana Pi R4

single USB dongle for Zigbee,Matter

High level Expectation

Thread integration feasibility in RDK-B reference platform

References

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