Hive Active Heating

[PasPer2]

Has anyone had this installed. Control your CH via smartphone.

What's included?
For only £199 your Hive Active Heating™ includes:

State of the art wireless thermostat, receiver and hub
Free app and online dashboard to remotely control your heating and hot water via phone, tablet and laptop
Professional Installation by a British Gas engineer (worth £80)

[peterb]

Or this - £70 cheaper.

https://www.inspirehomeautomation.co.uk/thermostat.php

[kudos1uk]

I have this and its great, you have a new programmable room stat and what they call a hub (small box you plug into your router). the hub controls the room stat.

once set up you can control it all from an app on your phone or a laptop.

Its really easy to set up all the times and temperatures on your laptop then when your happy you just send it to your room stat.

When out and about you can turn it on/off or change temperature from your smartphone.

It really is good.

[PasPer2]

The ability to control heat in individual rooms/zones would be awesome.

[herulach]

The ability to control heat in individual rooms/zones would be awesome.

Assuming you have dual zone heating you can already do that, if you can't, you don't have dual zone heating, so no snazzy thermostat is going to let you do it (unless it also comes with a set of wireless TRVs, which would be awesome, but this one doesn't).

As a retrofit to existing systems something like the Honeywell evohome setup is much better. Wireless programmable room stat + a set of wireless TRVs controlled from the one place. Nifty, but also very spendy. To do our house (10 rads) you'd be looking at knocking on £1000. The controller is £250, then the valves are about 80 quid each, bit cheaper in multipacks. For us it might be viable with the controller operating as a standard roomstat, and a single TRV in the bedroom.

Quite why people are willing to pay extra for internet control I don't know.

[PasPer2]

Nothing fancy here, it's either on or off.

Got TRV's on all radiators but I had this moment of clarity and wondered if I could somehow remotely control the heating and only heat up my bedroom on a morning for when I finish work :-) I won't be paying through the nose though so will just have to get the thermal onesie out !!

[herulach]

Nothing fancy here, it's either on or off.

Got TRV's on all radiators but I had this moment of clarity and wondered if I could somehow remotely control the heating and only heat up my bedroom on a morning for when I finish work :-) I won't be paying through the nose though so will just have to get the thermal onesie out !!

You can get remote TRVs that are timed, but for the situation you describe you'd need them on all the rads, timed off outside the bedroom and on in it. Unless you could cope with all the other TRVs set half way, and program the bedroom one to full at certain times of day. Something like this will do that for you for £30
http://www.screwfix.com/p/terrier-i-...or-valve/71054

[PasPer2]

Wow, that could be what I'm after.

Wonder if my 20% discount works at Screwfix :-)