Troubleshooting mDNS timeouts for Thread/Matter Devices with Proxmox 8

FWIW I experience the same issue, but with a different setup.

  • HAOS 2023.11.3 on a Raspberry Pi 4 host
    • Funnily enough I am actively working on migrating to a Proxmox cluster
  • NetGate 6100 router/firewall
    • Avahi plug-in installed
    • mDNS is enabled on pfSense
    • Followed instructions from this thread to do that: Thread/Matter, Router Rules, and Firewalls
    • However things randomly worked before putting these changes in place too!
  • Using SkyConnect for Zigbee and as my only Thread border router
  • Few different subnets, HAOS on the management VLAN
  • Have IPv6 enabled internally, but this also all worked a few times without it
  • TP-Link Omada setup pretty much across the board (minus the Netgate obviously)
    • Don’t take this as an endorsement. The first company to deliver a large 2.5G managed switch with better software will take my money and these will go on sale!

I see the same CHIP Error 0x00000032 timeouts in my logs when pairing fails. But I do not have as much luck getting it to pair just by giving things a reboot.

It often fails once it gets to the internet connectivity test, but I have had it get past that and onto the pairing with Home Assistant step and fail. No useful information on the screen, just “something went wrong”.