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It could be 2026 before all your Thread border routers work together

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Apple 's tvOS 26 beta adds Thread 1.4 to Apple TVs and HomePods to the smart home smart home protocol.

The new spec adds a standard way for Thread border routers to join an existing Thread network.

But with Amazon and Google still on 1.3 , you may be waiting a bit longer for that unified mesh network.

Border router-based solution in Matter 1.4 could help at some point.

The most straightforward fix is border routers communicating with each other.

This should have been the approach from day one — but it looks like we’ll have to be patient a while longer.

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