ZigBee repeats only for ZigBee. Zwave repeats only for zwave. WiFi repeats for no one! Mwahahaha! (Sorry, engineer joke. But the not repeating part is true.)
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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…
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