How to connect MoT devices using an ESP32 C6?

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Hello, I am a software dev and kind of new to smart home. Yesterday I installed home assistant on my pi and I have those new ikea smart bulbs called „KAJPATS“.

My pi is physically far away from the light bulbs so I figured to get myself an ESP32 C6 which ran run Openthread.

Now here are my questions:

  1. Once connected to the home network can I add the ESP32 C6 to homeassistant and add/manage the devices connected to the ESP32?
  2. if I use Matter-over-thread, the commissioning (inital setup) needs BLE, right? AFAIK Kajplats only works over Thread
  3. Does ESP32 C6, with openthread running on it, manage the commissioning part? If not, could I use the companion app to do the commissioning over the BLE of my iphone and „transfer“ the device to the ESP32?
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HA is not directly involved with MoT on ESP devices.
You could look at Espressif own ZeroCode site to see if they have such a thing. I have only used the ZeroCidr site to make end devices for MoT.

OpenThread could have some options too and else there are for sure several projects on GitHub.

There are threads on the forum here on ways to get Ikea MoT products to run Zigbee, but I do not know if it just a selection it all of them.