# Connections to external space

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/connections-to-external-space/9944>\
**Category:** Devices\
**Created:** [March 2, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/connections-to-external-space/9944 "2019-03-02T09:56:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Simon\_Trigwell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/simon_trigwell/32/3699_2.png) [@Simon\_Trigwell](https://community.homey.app/u/Simon_Trigwell)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/connections-to-external-space/9944/1 "2019-03-02T09:56:01Z")

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Apologies if this is covered by a search didn’t answer my query.

I am wanting to control devices in a garden studio which is some 20m away from the house. The mesh created at present barely extends beyond the back door so is there a way of networking a range extender to the studio? I have run an external network out so the studio is online and connected to the house.

thanks

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**Author:** ![bvdbos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bvdbos/32/2352_2.png) [@bvdbos](https://community.homey.app/u/bvdbos)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/connections-to-external-space/9944/2 "2019-03-02T10:51:00Z")

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Impossible for us to know as you don’t tell us which mesh you mean an what devices you already have. In general: if you add main-powered devices, both for zwave as for zigbee, they will contribute to extending the range. For zwave I created a lineair network of about 40 meters now with single and double walls in between… But the plugs (Fibaro for my case) are no more then 10 meters apart.

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Trigwell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/simon_trigwell/32/3699_2.png) [@Simon\_Trigwell](https://community.homey.app/u/Simon_Trigwell)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/connections-to-external-space/9944/3 "2019-03-02T11:11:45Z")

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It’s a Z-wave mesh that i want to extend beyond the boundary of the house as i want to pick up some Fibaro devices in the Studio. Ideally i want to extend this mesh/network over Ethernet as you would for example have a TX-RX unit for distributing AV around. If there isn’t such a device then i suppose my only option is to daisy-chain mains powered Z-wave devices along the garden to the Studio at say 10m intervals?