The long-awaited Thread 1.4 upgrade promises a unified smart home network, but staggered rollouts have many households juggling fragmented meshes for now.
Promise vs. reality
Thread 1.4 was advertised as the version that would finally merge your smart home’s many mini-meshes into a single resilient network. In practice, the fixes are arriving piecemeal across platforms, leaving many homes stuck with parallel Thread networks that don’t talk to each other well.
While Apple is lighting up Threa
