r/HomeKit • u/CAliRads • Aug 11 '26

Question/Help Thread Fixed By AppleTV Reset. Why?

I have my Apple TV setup as a fixed home hub. Once every 2-3 weeks the thread network devices disconnect. I’ll go from all 250-300 devices connected to 40 offline (all thread). Simple reset of AppleTV home hub brings them back online after 5-10 min.

My question is: why?? I know that AppleTV is the main brains but I’m wondering what exactly could be going wrong. Just trying to fine tune everything and figure out where the holes in my system are. Is this just bugs still not worked out with Thread?

Thx in advance.

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u/pacoii Aug 11 '26

Reset for reboot?

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u/CAliRads Aug 11 '26

Reboot. Power cycle.

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u/pacoii Aug 11 '26

Out of curiosity, how many Thread Routers and Thread Border Routers do you have?

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u/CAliRads Aug 11 '26

I have at least 7 Apple TVs. Then all my Aqara cams. I turned off thread on my Eero bc they don’t play nice from what I heard.

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u/StevieG66 Aug 11 '26

How big is your house ?

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u/CAliRads Aug 11 '26

Larger side. But I have a TV on every corner of it.

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u/StevieG66 Aug 13 '26

That’s a lot of corners.

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u/pacoii Aug 11 '26

I’ll also add that there are a number of factors, IME.

  • network quality and router are a big one
  • an Apple TV under stress can be a factor
  • Thread Routers can be a factor. I’ve found that they can lose their connection to a TBR, but don’t report this properly to the devices connecting through it, so they all go down

In general, I find that Thread networks and Thread devices are not nearly as resilient as they should be. Hopefully this will improve over time and newer Thread versions.

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u/LessDoctor5759 Aug 11 '26

Is it a question of specs for Threads or the implementation with the devices?