Hive Hub, “reached end of life”!

The_Green_Hornet

Bendo said:

mmmmikey said:

Another Home Assistant fan here, albeit a very recent convert. It takes a bit of getting your head around and setting up but once you've got started it's a fantastically powerful bit of kit.

There are certainly Hive integrations available although I haven't looked at them. Perhaps this is a way forward for the OP?

As well as removing the costs and lags associated with using online web services to control smart devices it's great to be able to see and control everything from one robust, stable app. 

The Hive integration relies on the hub as its all cloud based so that won't help.

Hive is pretty rubbish as a system,   but using Home assistant can work around those limitations.

As Hive uses Zigbee to communicate you can pair the controller and thermostat using Zigbee2MQTT on Home Assistant and bypass the hub altogether.

QrizB

The_Green_Hornet said:

Bendo said:

mmmmikey said:

Another Home Assistant fan here, albeit a very recent convert. It takes a bit of getting your head around and setting up but once you've got started it's a fantastically powerful bit of kit.

There are certainly Hive integrations available although I haven't looked at them. Perhaps this is a way forward for the OP?

As well as removing the costs and lags associated with using online web services to control smart devices it's great to be able to see and control everything from one robust, stable app. 

The Hive integration relies on the hub as its all cloud based so that won't help.

Hive is pretty rubbish as a system,   but using Home assistant can work around those limitations.

As Hive uses Zigbee to communicate you can pair the controller and thermostat using Zigbee2MQTT on Home Assistant and bypass the hub altogether.

I was wondering if you could use any old ZigBee hub (like the Lidl one I use) in place of the Hive one, but People On The Internet say that the Hive devices don't play well with consumer ZigBee hubs

Bendo

The_Green_Hornet said:

Bendo said:

mmmmikey said:

Another Home Assistant fan here, albeit a very recent convert. It takes a bit of getting your head around and setting up but once you've got started it's a fantastically powerful bit of kit.

There are certainly Hive integrations available although I haven't looked at them. Perhaps this is a way forward for the OP?

As well as removing the costs and lags associated with using online web services to control smart devices it's great to be able to see and control everything from one robust, stable app. 

The Hive integration relies on the hub as its all cloud based so that won't help.

Hive is pretty rubbish as a system,   but using Home assistant can work around those limitations.

As Hive uses Zigbee to communicate you can pair the controller and thermostat using Zigbee2MQTT on Home Assistant and bypass the hub altogether.

That's a fair point actually,  I didn't look into that as the built in integration works well enough for my needs.