After testing Thread, Zigbee, and Matter, here's how I'm building my smart home differently ...

There's finally a handy app arriving to aid you in setting your smart home Thread mesh network and troubleshooting problems.

The new Thread Tools app gives you ‘visibility’ into your network to help troubleshoot smart homes.

Building a Matter smart home is about to get a lot less complicated ...

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 ...