When you say it doesn’t work “consistently” implies to me it works sometimes so is probably due to the IR receiver being in a stupid place on the XG2V2 (as its intended to for RF use). Turn the XG2V2 over and look at the bottom front edge, you should see a tiny plastic rectangle along the curved edge, if the X1S Hub and/or a Blaster does not have a good line of site to it then this will be your problem. If I misunderstood your problem you could try unpairing the original remote this MAY switch it into IR mode so you can teach the X1S.