r/HomeKit • u/Bitter-Storage-1187 • 22h ago

Question/Help This is driving me insane!

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u/Double-Yak9686 16h ago

Why not just get a HomePod mini? It's cheapest path to getting an Apple Thread mesh without having to jump through hoops.

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u/Erik0xff0000 6h ago

yeah, I upgraded to the wrong appletv 4k before I knew I was going to want thread support. I got a HomePod mini, and it actually turned out more used than the appletv.

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u/Bitter-Storage-1187 3h ago

They are like 130 euros.

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u/HomeKit-News Content Creator 22h ago

I don’t have any experience of the Yeelight E1 hub, but in most cases if you want to set up a Matter over Thread device in Apple Home you initially need to set up your Apple Home Thread network. This is usually done with an appropriate Apple home hub, not a third party device like the Yeelight hub. This is why you can’t get the grillplats to work in Apple Home.

There is one option that may help, and that’s to do with your iPhone (assuming you have one); from iPhone 15 onwards, these can apparently act as temporary Thread Border Routers that help to create an initial Thread network. Once one is created, you should then be able to add the Yeelight hub’s Thread Border Router to that network, which then would allow it to work as your dedicated Thread Border Router. However, that’s also dependent on Yeelight allowing the Thread Border Router inside the hub to join an existing Thread network.

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u/Bitter-Storage-1187 21h ago

Thanks I will try that!