Does anyone control their central heating with a smartphone app?

[TheGMF]

Are you living the dream, or did it turn out to be a PITA?

Our 'new' house has a really basic thermostat - it's just a dial. I want to change for a digital 7-day programmable one but now wondering if I should be 'future-proofing' with a fancy smartphone controlled one.

Would like to hear from anyone who has one - how it's worked out for them.

Does the thermostat have to be wireless as we had a wireless thermostat in our last house and that WAS a PITA imo.

Also is mobile phone reception a factor, because our house seems to be in a bit of a 'notspot'.

TIA.

I've got the British Gas one, we had it fitted 2 years ago with a new boiler. I find it really good. You can over ride it on the thermostat, use the app on your mobile or on the BG website.

I wouldn't be without it now.

Tado does all that, sunnyupnorth. It is 'intelligent' in that it learns how well your house retains heat and works with weather forecasts to anticipate cold snaps. Https:www.tado.com/en/.

We've had the honey well one for about three years now. I'd quite like the smartphone one though.

Has anyone used the Heatmiser? The Hive sounds quite good, I shall look into that too.

I wanted the heat miser but my builder, whilst rating the heat miser, said we couldn't have it unless we redid - & zoned - our CH as our pipes are a tangled mess of 22mm joined to 15mm, and he cannot identify flow & return without pulling up all of the floorboards. Certainly the one floor that he did completely remove had a higgledy piggledy mess including 7 pipes capped off & tied together with no actual reason for them to be there at all...so far too expensive for us to fix properly.