I agree with Ben on this: if you have a lot of devices to migrate (and, don’t forget that there is no migration tool), why would you consider Hub V2, when Hub V3 based on the Artik chip will probably be released sometime next year?
The whole migration process could be even more painful when moving to Hub V3 (it’s a totally different chip AND cloud architecture)…
So, why do it twice in a relatively short timeframe?
The way I see it, by releasing Hub V2 for new customers, the existing Hub V1 customers could also benefit from better performances in the cloud w/o having to migrate to Hub V2.
What is then the marginal benefit for existing Hub V1 customers to migrate to Hub V2 (apart from video streaming)?
Better latency? Maybe, but let’s see the metrics first…
I’m sure that SmartThings has already done some extensive QA testing (including some performance and load testing) on Hub V1 vs. Hub V2.
If they can share some latency metrics (even compiled in a LAB environment), existing hub V1 customers could then make a better decision…