Here’s why Apple put a Thread radio in the iPhone 15 Pro / Yes, Thread has some cool smart home uses, but the wireless protocol could also replace Bluetooth in other parts of Apple’s ecosystem : apple

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thread as in Twitter from Facebook? Or is that another Thread?

[-] Skiptrace@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago

Thread is a Smart Home protocol. It's like Zigbee and Z-Wave but different. Hopefully it's actually going to become the real winner in the smart home world along with Matter.

[-] somedude@lemmy.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

The only Matter devices I’ve seen so far don’t support Thread, but work over WiFi.

[-] Kitten_Mittens@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty much everything produced by Eve (besides their cameras) and Nanoleaf is connected via Thread. They were once only available for the Apple ecosystem but since the Matter standards were released they have been venturing out. Thread is relatively new but it’s use in new devices will only grow. Thread and Zigbee use the same wireless protocol (IEEE 802.15.4) but differs from Zigbee products for it doesn’t require individual homehubs for each separate company. Thread products also benefit from power consumption that is similar to that of Bluetooth but has a range on par with Wi-Fi. Thread device also act as gateways or a tunnels for passing along commands to other Thread devices on the Thread network so where each additional Wi-Fi based device further burdens the network each additional Thread device only strengthens it. Needless to say I’m a fan of Thread.

[-] Skiptrace@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Wifi is a bit of an odd choice IMO. It's not a great smart home device protocol.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

If you want to support a lot of devices in a dense apartment building with wifi you pretty much want everybody to have MU-MIMO capable access points and IoT gear. Otherwise you're hogging spectrum.

(It's not like other protocols aren't also affected, but at least they don't compete with people's internet traffic)

[-] somedude@lemmy.ninja 5 points 1 year ago

Cool. I didn’t realize Thread was it’s own radio standard, and separate from Bluetooth. Makes sense!

[+] Aqarius@lemmy.world -21 points 1 year ago

Man, it's like they're allergic to common standards

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago

I was under the impression that Thread / Matter is not an apple thing at all but effectively a new-ish common standard?

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, it’s basically a new standard that sits next to WiFi and Bluetooth. All three have strengths and weaknesses for different applications.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

It’s almost like people just like to bitch about things.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

For those wondering what was removed here: lemmy.ml had an automatic slur filter that will remove, amongst others, the word for a female dog.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Whoa, was it applied? I don’t see that in my instance. Interesting.

I wasn’t calling anyone the label. I agree that use is toxic. I was using the plural verb.

But now I’m ponding how silly the distinction might be to some people. 🤔

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Re: the plural … The filter also removes variants

And yea the filter can seem a bit silly. I for one don’t mind it, especially for a small open source platform like this platform … it provides some basic moderation baseline without much effort

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Ignoring that the point of Matter (which is so far not happening effectively) is to be a standard shared by all the major providers for smart stuff, this doesn't mean they're removing Bluetooth.

It means Bluetooth is a dumpster fire and they're switching their stuff to use better tech.

[-] overzeetop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Bluetooth is a dumpster fire

Hard to argue with that.

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