IMO a problem with Thread is that most of the Thread Border Routers are made by the same megacorps pushing proprietary spyware smart home stuff. I get that I could still get them to work with Home Assistant, but I don’t want to support them at all.
So instead I got the ESP thread border router dev board, but I haven’t gotten the firmware to compile and install correctly yet and so my Thread devices still don’t work.
(The only other open options I know of are (a) the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1, but that was sold out when I was shopping for a border router and also a USB dongle instead of a standalone device, which I’m not a fan of, and (b) the Home Assistant Yellow, which was expensive and then discontinued. There’s also now a GL iNet GL-S20, but I only found out about that while researching for this comment.)
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1, but that was sold out
Bummer, I didn’t know that. I got one at the beginning on the hope that dual stack would work. Now ive been using it for Zigbee with the expectation of buying a second one whenever i buy a thread device
BTW, I believe Inovelli Smart Switches can act as Thread Border Routers. I’m a huge fan for their feature set but don’t yet have Thread devices to try
IMO a problem with Thread is that most of the Thread Border Routers are made by the same megacorps pushing proprietary spyware smart home stuff. I get that I could still get them to work with Home Assistant, but I don’t want to support them at all.
So instead I got the ESP thread border router dev board, but I haven’t gotten the firmware to compile and install correctly yet and so my Thread devices still don’t work.
(The only other open options I know of are (a) the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1, but that was sold out when I was shopping for a border router and also a USB dongle instead of a standalone device, which I’m not a fan of, and (b) the Home Assistant Yellow, which was expensive and then discontinued. There’s also now a GL iNet GL-S20, but I only found out about that while researching for this comment.)
Bummer, I didn’t know that. I got one at the beginning on the hope that dual stack would work. Now ive been using it for Zigbee with the expectation of buying a second one whenever i buy a thread device
BTW, I believe Inovelli Smart Switches can act as Thread Border Routers. I’m a huge fan for their feature set but don’t yet have Thread devices to try