Are all repeaters/extenders typically capable of extending the signal the same distances?
Yes. The marketing descriptions make it sound like they’re doing something more exciting, but they’re just doing the same thing that any mains powered device does.
See the recent conversation:
As you probably know, zwave repeats only for Z wave and Zigbee repeats only for zigbee.
Most Mains powered devices will repeat for their own protocol. The exception is usually warning devices like smoke sensors where you don’t want the smoke detector’s own message to be delayed because it’s repeating a message for a light switch somewhere. But otherwise, if it’s running on mains power, it probably repeats for its own protocol.
Zwave
Single purpose zwave extenders were useful back during the third generation of z wave when not every device used full power.
But we are now in the fifth generation (Z wave plus) And pretty much every mains powered device now transmits at full power, so you just don’t need the single purpose extenders anymore. People commonly use plug in pocket sockets, L…
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