With the public release of iOS 17 today, you can take advantage of some really useful Wi-Fi connection information exposed via shortcuts. Years ago, Apple stripped access to this data to 3rd party apps, buried it in Settings.app, and removed some of it entirely. This resulted in much gnashing of teeth for those of usContinue reading “Wi-Fi Info iOS Shortcut”
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A Look at a Real World Thread Network
Thread is a fast growing wireless protocol for low power IoT networks. It’s a feature of Matter, which can also use BLE and Wi-Fi. Similar to Zigbee, Thread uses 802.15.4 for its PHY and MAC, but an important difference is that it uses 6LoWPAN for the network layer, so IPv6 addressing is used for allContinue reading “A Look at a Real World Thread Network”
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