Hive - opinions please?

zxzxzx

Hive & app, 4 years no problems. Dropped and broke the display 2 years ago so only used the app!

QrizB

vic_sf49 said:

The one thing I don't like, is that once your heating is up to temp, as soon as it drops by 0.1 degree, the heating kicks in again. I'd prefer it to be half a degree of something you can set yourself. (I can never remember what this is called.)

Hysteresis.

I'm in the opposite camp on this; a couple of winters ago I tried a cheap ZigBee smart thermostat but it had +/- 0.5C of range (eg. if set to 19 it would heat to 19.5 then shut off until it dropped back to 18.5) and it was too much. I much prefer my Hive.

QrizB

I thought I'd use this thread to record the first problem I've had with my Hive Mini in ~10 months of ownership.

While we're not running the heating at present, I'd noticed (OK, Mrs QrizB had noticed) that our hot water wasn't. Looking at the Hive Mini receiver, it had a solid yellow light rather than the usual solid green light. The hot water wasn't responding to the schedule, or to the in-app "boost" function but could be turned on and off manually by using the button on the Hive Mini receiver. The status of everything - Hub, thermostat and receiver - in the "my devices" page in the app said everything was OK.

To my mild surprise, then in-app "Ask Hive" chatbot successfully identified this as a communication problem between the various components, and walked me through the necessary steps to fix it. I'll reproduce these here for future reference.

1. Turn off the boiler controls at the mains. this removes power from the receiver.
2. Remove the thermostat from the wall bracket and pop out one of the four AAAs. This powers it down.
3. Switch the boiler back on.
4. Replace the battery in the thermostat and clip it back on the wall.

Having power cycled the thermostat and receiver, they both reconnected to the hub and the receiver light returned to it reassuring solid green colour.

jimjames

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81824761#Comment_81824761

I've not had any issues with the app. Had Hive since 2019 and it's made a big difference to our bills by being able to do granular control of the temperature over the course of the day.