Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4

Google TV Streamer has been updated to Thread 1.4, allowing you to entree a mode to manually stock its Thread credentials. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Apple and Google are updating their astute location streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As archetypal spotted by Matter Alpha and 9to5 Google, the latest spec has arrived connected compatible Apple TVs successful the tvOS 27 developer beta and the Google TV Streamer done a bundle update.

This lays the groundwork for these devices, which service arsenic Thread Border Routers, to instrumentality Thread credential sharing, enabling them to link much easy to an existing Thread web rather than creating their own.

Thread is 1 of the connectivity protocols the interoperability modular Matter runs on. The archetypal program was for Thread Border Routers to each enactment seamlessly …

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