Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is a smart home reporter who’s ... with Matter is to look for the Matter logo on the box. A Matter controller connects your new Thread gadget to a Matter platform over ...

The first devices with a Matter logo on the box could ... those companies advance their own smart home schemes. Amazon is aggressively pushing Matter and Thread connectivity in its existing ...

Smart home gear is getting more common, but the words used to talk about it can get confusing. You might see things like Matter, Thread, or Zigbee on boxes or in setup menus and wonder what they mean.

Of course, there’d be nothing stopping smart home users from using the Timmerflotte sensor with other devices that act as Thread border routers, such as a compatible Amazon Echo smart speaker ...

But it likely has to do with the smart home connectivity protocol known as Matter – one that Apple itself helped develop. For the unfamiliar, Thread forms the core networking technology behind ...

In iOS 18, Apple quietly enabled the Thread radio found on recent iPhone models to directly control Apple Home and Matter devices. Thread is a new IP-based smart home connectivity standard that ...

Android 15 is adding a Thread network stack that, on supported phones, will enable communicating with compatible smart home devices via Thread. Thread is a low-power mesh networking protocol that ...

The iPhone 16 and 15 both have Thread radios inside them An Apple director and Thread president has explained why they're there Both of the main benefits are related to smart home future-proofing ...

As iPhones get new capabilities like Starlink, there's one recently added feature that you may have missed -- but it has huge implications for Apple's push into home technology. The feature found ...

It took Ikea some time for Ikea to get onto the Matter bandwagon, and now that it’s on board, there’s growing evidence the ...