Can I use V1 hub to extend v2?

[JDRoberts]

The following topic may help. It explains what devices repeat for what other devices. This is a clickable link.

FAQ: Is this device a repeater?

you’ve read a little about range and message repeating, and you suspect that the reason why there’s this huge lag in a lightswitch going on in your bedroom, or why you’re having problems with your lock, is because your Devices are out of range. Adding a second hub won’t help under the current architecture. Whether it’s v1 or v2. To extend the mesh, you need more devices capable of “repeating” the specific messages you want repeated. That’s so they can do their little relay thing of passing the message along like a old-fashioned horseback messengers. Ride till your horse gets tired (end of your range) pass the message onto the next guy who then rides as far as he can and so on until the message reaches its destination. which devices don’t repeat Most battery-powered devices do not rep…