- Hey guys, so a lot of people got the brand new
HomePod Mini, which is great.
I love this little thing puts out great sound,
but I was really interested in the Thread Technology
that's built into here.
So I really want to also test the brand new thread
that's built into the nanoleaf light bulb
and also the nanoleaf light strip.
And see what difference is between Bluetooth
and this new technology called Thread.
Let's jump into the business.
So both the nanoleaf light bulb
and nanoleaf light strip are both a part
of the nano leaf essential line.
Now I'm not quite sure what other products nanoleaf
is gonna launch in this as essential line.
I vaguely remember at CES they has switch
and maybe even plug.
So general every day products that you've gonna need
for your smart home at affordable prices
that have the latest technology which includes Thread.
Now, have you never heard of Thread before is brand new?
Is the talk of the town though,
especially since the release of the HomePod Mini.
Now in a nutshell, Thread is a low power, low latency,
self-healing mesh communication that is extremely reliable.
It means all your thread devices in your house,
will communicate with each other.
If one of those happened to go down for whatever reason
your thread network will heal itself
and find another way to communicate
with all the devices that are so active in your home.
Sure, there's a lot of questions
still to be asked about Thread
but that is a general overlook of what thread can do for us.
And by design, having this type of mesh network,
not only is it more stable, more reliable,
but also extends your network out to further locations
of your house.
So today I wanna test out Thread
versus the Bluetooth communication
that are also built into both the devices,
test out the latency and also the distance
of the thread network to see
if it's actually connecting through each other.
Now luckily for this test,
I do have it larger house around 55 to 6,000 square feet.
And that is if this was just a Bluetooth network
wherever you're using a HomePod Mini or just your phone
with these devices, these will only work under Bluetooth.
Bluetooth usually is around 30 to 40 feet
but with the Thread network,
if you're communicating through other devices,
hopefully you can get longer range.
So let's go ahead and try that out.
But I set this up with home kit,
I knew it was communicating via Bluetooth only
because I did not have the HomePod Mini yet.
I know this right away, the latency was terrible.
Sometimes it was two, three, five seconds,
and sometimes it never turned on or change colors.
It was really really bad,
even though my phone was right next to it.
My HomePod, OG was right next to the light
and still took that long to turn on.
I was praying that when I got the HomePod mini,
and when I activated Thread, it would definitely change.
I got some good news it is amazing.
So I'm happy to report
that once I got my HomePod mini set up
and update it to 14.2, a new Thread was activated right away
because of how fast it was.
You saw a incredible difference.
I mean, you could really, as soon as you hit the button
the light turned on,
where once I disconnected the HomePod Mini,
I would lose connection altogether.
I don't know if this is the way it was designed
but I could not get back to Bluetooth.
I tried to get back, but just couldn't get back.
I would have no response
from my original HomePod or my phone.
So I'm not quite sure if there's a way to get back
or maybe there's just a current issue.
I would think it would default back to Bluetooth.
It just didn't do that for me.
When I tested the distance,
I kept the light bulb here in my studio
and move the HomePod Mini to the other side
of the house, which is about 35, 40 feet away.
I have good news, it did connect.
And so I decided to take it a little bit further
and actually drop it down to the second level.
And once I was down at the second level was still
at that 35, 40 feet in a way, I lost connection altogether.
I could not connect the light bulb.
Next thing I did was to bring in the nanoleaf light strip
which is also a Thread device and put that
at the top level on the other side of the house.
Good news, it did work.
It did extend that network and were super fast.
So I decided to take it one step further
and drop the HomePod Mini to the basement
and keep the nanoleaf light strip
at that top level on the other side of the house.
And I got great news here too, and it still worked.
So we have 30, 45 feet across and probably was at
probably 20 to 30 feet down to levels
through all the woods in everything else
that this house has made of.
And it still worked.
So you can see how excited I am about this technology.
Thread is the future of smart home and is here today.
I'm super excited.
I also gonna be reviewing the nanoleaf light bulb
in light strip in the detail.
If you guys want to see that video
I'll put that up right there.
You guys can check that out.
I'm also gonna be reviewing other thread products
on this channel in the very near future
like the Eve door and window contact sensor.
I'm just waiting for the firmware update.
A new version that was released in 2020 does have Thread
but it does need a firmware update.
Do you want to make sure that it's the 2020 version,
which I think they are selling on Amazon now
and also the Eve Aqua also 2020.
I'm just waiting for the firmware update
and both ears are going to be checked out on this channel
with the thread technology.
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