So when you went into the ST app, you were able to see the ST and the Aqara Thread networks in “Manage Thread network” and the option to “Join this hub to another…” was available under the Unify Thread Network?
That’s the strange thing. I have four different Thread networks and ST only shows the Thread network for the hub I’m looking at. Do you know if you Aqara and ST hubs are using the same Thread channel? I know my Eero and ST are on different channels, but I don’t know if that would affect or not.
Now that you have ST, Aqara and Apple on the same Thread TBR mesh what do you see on pairing a Thread device? Do you still get asked which TBR to use? Is still necessary to add from one system to another with Matter (as with Matter over Wifi)?
Platforms do not care how many TBR are or which vendors make them, it’s just the Thread network name and the credentials. If the network has only the SmartThings hub or two additional TBRs from other vendors doesn’t change anything.
Yes, that doesn’t change anything either, Thread just provides connectivity to your local network, like WiFi, but is independent of Matter.
To use Matter multi-admin you have to share the device from a smart home platform like always.
The only difference of having one or more TBRs in the same network is redundancy and reliability. For instance, if the only TBR in your Thread network is the SmartThings hub but share a device to Apple Home, if the SmartThings hub dies, Apple Home won’t be able to control the device anymore. However, if you have more TBRs in the same Thread network, even if the SmartThings hub dies, Apple Home will be able to communicate with the device using the other TBRs.
I’m having the issue with joining my ST Thread network to my AppleTV thread network. I deleted all Thread devices from ST (confirmed with the ST advanced settings that no devices are connected via Thread), but I still am not able to select “Join this hub to another service’s Thread network” under Unify Thread network. It is greyed out, and the only network listed in Manage Thread network is the ST network, which I cannot “leave”.
I also have a Google Home thread network, but when I got to Thread networks setting on Android, I see the preferred network is a Nest network and I see 2 “other networks” (what I think are the ST network and the AppleTV network) that I cannot select as preferred “Unavailable network: to access this network, set up this device with the manufacturer app you used to set up this network”). I’m not sure what to do… Any help?
When merging a Hub’s Thread network into a 3rd party network, handle unexpected data in the Thread network settings that might have previously prevented the merge from succeeding.
my device updated to 0.59.8 but the same issue remained. I could not join another thread network even though no thread devices were currently set up on my SmartThings network. I’ve given up for now but if folks have other ideas, would welcome them.
