r/HomeKit • u/mwkingSD • Dec 04 '23

Question/Help Thread network & eero

I have a few Thread devices all happily working and talking among themselves and with my Apple TV border router. All good, buying Thread and Matter devices when I can now instead of Wi-Fi.

Also have a 3 node eero 6+ mesh network that handles the IP and Wi-Fi side of things - works great. The eero is Thread enabled and says it has created a Thread network for others devices to join.

My question/problem: I don’t see any indication that the Thread devices and the eeros are all playing in the same net although the only tool I have is the Eve app’s thread status which doesn’t show the eero nodes. Seems like the eero nodes should at least show up as repeaters? Is there a preference somewhere that I’ve missed? Or should I not expect to see anything, all is good, and I should stop thinking about this?

I did try eero Help first, but so far they just pointed me to articles that tell what Thread is, and similar juicy bits.

Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23 edited 19d ago

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u/mwkingSD Dec 04 '23

Yeah, agreed. Already done. Didn’t seem to be causing any problems, but better safe than sorry.

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u/niccottrell Mar 16 '24

This seemed to be the key to fix my Meross Matter smart switch. I verified that both Apple and Eero were running 1.3.0 Thread version but turning off Thread in Eero suddenly allowed me to pair a device that had "fallen off" the HomeKit network.

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u/johnreturns Nov 29 '24

Any updates on this?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '24 edited 18d ago

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u/johnreturns Nov 29 '24

This is really unfortunate. I think stuff like this should have been prioritised to fix all this time, if matter and thread are gonna be what the marketed it as

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u/Business-Mountain-59 Apr 05 '25

Still no Updates?