Heating app/ smart thermostat recommendations

[snoopinginstlye]

Can anyone recommend a good heating app or smart thermostat? I used to have Hive, but it keeps disconnecting and I have to keep contacting them to reboot it, which is almost impossible. I’m looking for something simple and reliable that’s easy to use and doesn’t cost too much to buy and install initially. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you!

I had Hive connected in the past year. I really like it and it works well.

I used Wiser in my last house, really liked it, very easy to use.

I have Honeywell. Each radiator has its own thermometer and so we only heat the rooms we are using. I’d definitely recommend.

Sorry, we’ve got Hive and it’s been working fine for several years now.

I have Hive and it works perfectly, I've never had an issue with it. In a previous house I had Tado and again, that was great with zero issues but I prefer the Hive.

Another satisfied Hive user, for years now. I don’t even know what it means to have them reboot it? The signal was a bit rocky at first, I got a WiFi repeater and they provided a plug in Bluetooth receiver. Made both changes at the same time so no idea what worked, it just does work.

The thermostat needs new batteries every few years. Otherwise , no worries.

I’d start by finding out what they are doing to remotely rest ? Google/AI would be your friend here. Good luck.

We liked Hive until ours developed a fault and they couldn’t get an engineer out for weeks as they apparently only served our area on a monthly basis. It is also basically impossible to transfer it to another owner - when we sold the house where we had Hive I ended up having to change the password and email address on my account and give that to the new owners which sounds fine but I couldn’t change the name so expect my name is still on it.

We have Google Nest now and I wouldn’t recommend that either. It doesn’t have a boost feature where you can just turn it on for a set time like 1 hour - if you turn it on you have to manually turn it off again - which drives me insane as that’s the main thing I want from a heating system, we are too unpredictable in our movements to set a daily schedule. I asked people if it was good and they said yes but I didn’t think to ask if it had a boost as I never imagined anyone would invent a heating system that didn’t have such a basic bloody feature. It’s also virtually impossible to set up a schedule as the interface is so badly designed and confusing to use.

Think they've changed the problem where you can't log out of hive when you move out, think you just have to take batteries out then disconnect the heating from your app then you can take your hub with you and they can get a new hub or use hive like a normal dumb thermostat

Tado…replaced Nest after many years when Google stopped supporting updates. Very happy with the Tado.

We have had Tado for 8 years, easy to set up easy to set schedules no issues.

What if you want to give the new owners the same hub rather than forcing them to buy a new one, eg if you’re moving to a house with a different system? Are you saying the only way to transfer it is to force the next people to buy a new hub, you can’t transfer the existing one to them? What a racket

I think there is something you can do with the hub to transfer it, but I didn't read up on it because I have other hive devices I want to take with me and it doesn't force them to buy a hub, it will still work as a normal thermostat without a hub, it just won't be a smart thermostat that they can control from their phone and they can't add other hive devices without buying a new hub. So when I take the hub with me they won't have any issues

We have hive. It was left in the new house we bought. It was still set to the previous previous owners so not the ones we bought from. Not sure what DH did but I believe he reset it, created an account and changed it to our name then we could create a new schedule.

My parents HIVE was in the house when they moved in, 2.5 years ago. It was a bit of a faff to get it registered in their account (there are instructions online, we followed them to the letter but it took many attempts over a number of days of doing exactly the same thing), but it did eventually do it and has been fine since then.

I would really like a system where each room can be controlled individually, but the initial set up would be significant.
Instead I have a programmable thermostat (non-smart) controlling the boiler, and programmable TRVs (linked to my phone app via bluetooth) on a few rooms which I have programmed as to when they are mostly in use (lounge - evenings, bedroom - morning & late evening). The rest of the house has normal TRVs set at a lowish level.

I reconsider a whole house system every autumn!

Tado user here and happy with it for many years. Have gradually fitted out the whole house. I’m afraid new smart systems aren’t cheap.

We've had Tado for a few years. DH DIY fitted the initial connection to the boiler, we have a smart trvs in all the bedrooms and then wired thermostats for each underfloor heating zone downstairs. I've been impressed how well it has integrated with the different systems.

We had Hive in our old house, moved into new house and it was Google nest. Ended up paying to have Hive installed as really didn’t like Google nest!