{"id":490681,"date":"2022-09-06T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-is-a-thread-border-router-and-do-i-need-to-buy-one\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:00:11","slug":"what-is-a-thread-border-router-and-do-i-need-to-buy-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-a-thread-border-router-and-do-i-need-to-buy-one\/","title":{"rendered":"#What Is a Thread Border Router? (And Do I Need to Buy One?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef7bc0e1ff8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef7bc0e1ff8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-a-thread-border-router-and-do-i-need-to-buy-one\/#%E2%80%9CWhat_Is_a_Thread_Border_Router_And_Do_I_Need_to_Buy_One%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;What Is a Thread Border Router? (And Do I Need to Buy One?)&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-a-thread-border-router-and-do-i-need-to-buy-one\/#What_Does_a_Thread_Border_Router_Do\" >What Does a Thread Border Router Do?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-a-thread-border-router-and-do-i-need-to-buy-one\/#Will_I_Need_to_Buy_a_Thread_Border_Router\" >Will I Need to Buy a Thread Border Router?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhat_Is_a_Thread_Border_Router_And_Do_I_Need_to_Buy_One%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;What Is a Thread Border Router? (And Do I Need to Buy One?)&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage wp-image-830185 size-full\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ThreadBorderRouter3.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"An Apple HomePod mini serving as a Thread border router for Nanoleaf smart lights.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-credittext=\"Nanoleaf\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\">Nanoleaf<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You may have never heard of Thread border routers, but they\u2019re positioned to become a smart home staple\u2014working behind the scenes to tie together all your smart home gear. Better yet? You might already own one.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Does_a_Thread_Border_Router_Do\"><\/span>What Does a Thread Border Router Do?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019ve followed any smart home <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> over the last few years, even loosely, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ve heard chatter about the Matter smart home standard.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal of Matter, in brief, is that it breaks the smart home market out of the siloed mess it is currently in and allows for simple cross-platform communication. Instead of buying all-in with a single vendor and getting stuck with just that vendor\u2019s hardware and that vendor\u2019s hub, you can live a hub-free life with all your smart home devices talking to each other through Matter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the hub-free promise of Matter, however, that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s nothing hub-like in the Matter ecosystem. The hub-free promise is the promise that you won\u2019t be locked into using hardware from a specific vendor in the way that, say, Hue smart bulbs must be paired with the Hue Hub.<\/p>\n<p>In the Matter ecosystem, there is a piece of hardware called a Thread border router. Matter is built on Thread, a low-power and low-latency mesh network protocol designed specifically for the smart home and the Internet of Things.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-830157 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ThreadBorderRouter1.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A diagram showing how Thread devices and a Thread border router make up a Matter smarth home network.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-credittext=\"Thread Group\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">Thread Group<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just like the Wi-Fi devices in your home need your internet router to communicate with the greater internet and break out of the constraints of your home network, devices communicating within the Thread mesh network in your smart home need a way to break out of the Thread network and into the local Wi-Fi network (and beyond to the greater internet).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where the Thread border router comes in. As the name suggests, it\u2019s a network device that sits on the border of the Thread network and routes communication from within that network to the networks beyond, just as the internet router in your home does the same for computers, tablets, smart TVs, and more.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Will_I_Need_to_Buy_a_Thread_Border_Router\"><\/span>Will I Need to Buy a Thread Border Router?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-830159 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ThreadBorderRouter2.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A Nest Max Hub sitting on a table beside a pile of papers and a vase.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-credittext=\"Nest\/Google\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">Nest\/Google<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The good news is you likely won\u2019t need to buy a Thread border router. Or, more specifically, it\u2019s very unlikely you\u2019ll need to go out of your way to buy (or DIY) a discrete Thread border router.<\/p>\n<p>While there are companies manufacturing stand-alone Thread border routers like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirale.com\/products\/ktbrn1\/\">Kirale Technologies<\/a>, and you even roll your own by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.nordicsemi.com\/nRF_Connect_SDK\/doc\/latest\/matter\/openthread_border_router_pi.html\">combining a Thread development board with a Raspberry Pi<\/a>, you should skip that route. In fact, considering it would cost you $80-100 to do it, we wouldn\u2019t recommend it to anyone but the most ardent home network nerds and DIYers who want the thrill (and learning experience) of doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Even when discrete hubs from well-known companies hit the market\u2014IKEA announced its DIRIGERA Matter-compatible smart home hub <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=204a528a336ede4177fff0d84a044482&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fabout.ikea.com%2Fen%2Fnewsroom%2F2022%2F05%2F25%2Fikea-launches-dirigera-the-matter-ready-hub-for-smart-products-and-a-new-ikea-home-smart-app&amp;cuid=xid:{xid}&amp;___trxnet=vg\">back in May of 2022<\/a>\u2014most people will still likely skip buying one.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many appealing things about Matter is that major players in the smart home industry have signed on to support it not just in theory but practically: by incorporating Thread into their hardware.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of heading to Best Buy and purchasing a discrete Thread border router to add yet another thing to your pile of smart home hubs and smart home gear, you\u2019ll use the Thread border router built right into hardware you already own. And if you don\u2019t already own a smart home product that includes a Thread border router, you likely will in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product-box  \">\n<div class=\"product-img product-img-noaward\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nanoleaf-Elements-Hexagons-Smarter-Panels\/dp\/B09B83GQKR\/?tag=hotoge-20\" onclick=\"fbq('track', 'Buy Button'); if (fb_t_convert){fb_t_convert();}\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31PneavkdnL._SL160_.jpg\" height=\"147px\" width=\"150px\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the time of writing in September of 2022, for example, the following pieces of smart home hardware already have Thread border routers built into them:<\/p>\n<p>If you already own any of the above devices, then congratulations. As soon as Matter goes live, you\u2019re ready to go because you have a Thread border router already installed on your local network.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t already own any of the above devices, you could always buy one that fits with your current needs\u2014like upgrading your existing Apple TV or jumping on the mesh network train with a new eero router\u2014or simply wait.<\/p>\n<p>Thread border routers can be built into any piece of smart home gear that has an always-on connection to the mains power of your home. 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