The Thread Group will be fixing one of the largest adoption issues of Matter as a smart home standard, by making Thread border routers work nicely as one larger network. One of the problems with using ...

The Aqara Hub M3 could turn Aqara into a real contender as a smart home platform. The company also announced a new smart lever lock, a Thread border router smart plug, and Home Copilot, a generative ...

As a smart home user, you've probably heard multiple mentions of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter from different companies, and seen all three names printed on boxes for smart home devices or in their ...

Smart home manufacturer Aqara announced a series of new Matter-compatible smart home products at CES this week, including a Matter-compatible hub, a smart plug with an integrated Thread border router, ...

The Thread protocol offers a robust mesh network designed to solve many of the smart home’s biggest problems. But only if everyone can agree on how to use it. The Thread protocol offers a robust mesh ...

The Matter and Thread standards are supposed to ensure that a huge range of smart home devices can work seamlessly together, mirroring the benefits offered by HomeKit compatibility. But this isn’t the ...

The iPhone 15 Pro’s A17 Pro chip has a built-in Thread radio. That technically means the new Pro iPhones could function as border routers to connect a Thread network to the internet. No Android phone ...

Thread wireless mesh networking is strongly associated with the Matter smart-home automation standard, so some people found it surprising Apple would include Thread radio technology in iPhone 15 Pro ...

While Matter has yet to come to fruition, there’s a new update for Thread border routers. A new update today, Thread 1.3.0, will now let Thread devices work with any other Thread border router, ...

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