How to set up a Matter-over-Thread device in your smart home It could be 2026 before all your Thread border routers work ...

Smart home devices that connect over Thread should have a much more stable network thanks to Thread 1.4 support in tvOS 26. Thread is an IP-based wireless protocol that connects primarily smart home ...

The Google TV Streamer received its first major 2026 update, adding the April patch and Thread 1.4 for a convenient smart ...

I’m completely stumped. After a year and a half of pretty close to rock solid performance of my Matter over Thread network the entire thing took a stumble Saturday after updating HA to the current ...

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 ...

Thread has the potential to bring Internet Protocol (IP) seamlessly to low-power, constrained, and mesh devices in smart-home and smart-building settings. The ability to power the Internet of Things ...

We’re one step closer to a smart home that can manage Thread border routers from different manufacturers. Samsung SmartThings now supports “two-way Thread network unification,” its fancy way of saying ...

Google, through its Nest Labs home automation division, today announced another major step toward the formation of an ecosystem for connected home devices and apps. Nest, along with Samsung, ARM, and ...

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 ...