We were recently looking at BG's Hive control system, but put it on the back burner because they kept cancelling our initial visit to inspect our current setup/sell us stuff we don't need.
But I am interested in being able to control our heating via an app, but I have a few questions.
Our boiler is just about 18 months old, and has a wifi unit, but this controls the temperature only. The timing controls are an old fashioned timing dial on the boiler itself (click in/out for particular time to make boiler function at that time), so if we went for a fancy remote control thing, how would we get the Nest/Hive thermostat to pair with the boiler in order to be able to control it? Seeing as the timing control on the boiler is so basic, would it just be a case of setting all of the little pins to 'on' all the time, then let the thermostat control the switching by way of temperature triggers? Or would we need to get the control system for the boiler changed out?