Prerequisites

What you need

1. A Silicon Labs Wireless Starter Kit which can support Thread developement Full list is available on this page Preferred and most economic option being our EFR32 MG24 Devkit

2. Simplicity Studio to build an OpenThread RCP image and the Bootloader with firmware upgrade support

   Simplicity Studio can be downloaded here

3. A Flash Utility installed on your machine (either via Simplicity Studio or JLink)

   Simplicity comes with Simplicity Commander or Simplicity Studio Flash Programmer

   This guide will use Simplicity Commander

Note :

This guide does not cover how to get a Raspberry pi up and running. For that please refer to this guide

This guide does not cover how to perform a Linux installation on a computer. For this please refer to this guide