ThreadMapper

YOUR WHOLE HOME ON ONE MAP The Mesh tab's map now draws every accessory in your home, each as a mark of its own. The icon says what it is. The shape and colour say how it connects: Thread, Wi-Fi, Ethernet or Zigbee, where something states it. Unknown is drawn as unknown. The outline is green, and red when the device is offline. The Internet stands in the middle, your hubs around it, each hub's devices behind it. Thread devices show their known hops to the Internet, and a tap lights the way there. Names appear as you zoom in, and one button rearranges the map by room and back. BUILD A PROBE (PRO) A ThreadMapper probe is a small board you set up yourself: a Seeed XIAO ESP32C6 and our free firmware, installed from a computer's browser in about ten minutes. It sits on your Wi-Fi and measures what no phone can: the noise on each of the sixteen Thread channels, every five minutes, and the Wi-Fi networks behind it. Where it can join your Thread network it reads the mesh itself as well: the links between your routers with their measured signal, and whether a device answers. The guide says, before you buy the board, which of the two your home gets. Settings > ThreadMapper Probe. With a probe on your mesh, the Network Doctor asks it about a mains-powered Thread device that Apple Home cannot reach: whether the device answers over Thread all the same, and, for a Matter device, whether a border router still holds its registration. A device that answers has power and is in range, so the fault is not there. And after a scan in the Channel Scanner, the Doctor says when the loudest Wi-Fi on your mesh's busy channel is your own. A FILM YOU CAN WATCH Rewind's film now holds each snapshot for what it shows: longer where something changed, with the devices that changed ringed, their names lit. Choose its first and last day. A film can be as short as a before and an after. Making a film is part of Pro. ALSO IN THIS VERSION - Who Else Is Here: tap a Matter administrator to see its devices. (PRO) - The picture you share of your map is the Mesh tab's own map, with its legend under it. - Commissioning Readiness counts your border routers as routers. - A health link made away from home no longer says "0 routers".