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@zilog6128 That would work if it was simply the hub but quite often you need to switch off the boiler node thingy which is rubbish. The stat is battery so that has to be a manual take out and replace. Same for the valves. Quite honestly I think the system is a bit shaky and I wouldn't bother again. When it breaks I'll probably chuck the TRVs away and go back to a hard wired system with dumb TRVs and a remote wireless stat - quite frankly I think 'smart' home stuff is basically shite. I've got better things to do than spend time trouble shooting my heating or even worse, my lights etc
Yeah a mate has Hive, overall he's happy with it but has woken up to a cold house a few times and had to hard-reset it or whatever!!
You're not wrong, a lot (the majority?) of smart-home gear [I]is[/I] crap, especially the more "consumer friendly" stuff that gets advertised/pushed heavily or you can just grab off the shelf in Currys etc. There are decent options available for everything (including lights!), but unless you're really into it and/or do a huge amount of research before buying anything it's probably difficult to tell what's what tho.
’m tempted by the Heatmiser stuff as we have a mix of UFH and radiators as well as HW and currently have 2 control systems. Anyone got Heatmiser experience? https://heatmisershop.co.uk/
just fitted a neohub last week, not done much with it yet as its just connecting to 2 neostats contolling upstairs rads and HW(oil combi), hopefully in the next couple of weeks the downstairs UFH will get connected up.
bloke i was working for last week hasjust had it setup and reckons its better than the hive setup in his other house.
Thought I posted this earlier. But
With wiser I'm convinced the majority of my savings come from not heating an empty house thanks to geofencing.
We do use markedly less oil year on year when comparing before and after.
Not had any issues with wiser locking me out. I find I get 18 ISH months out of the batteries on the downstairs. The upstairs are much further from my hub and get through them in a year. Just bought another 2 plug extenders for security sequencing purposes but also to reduce the distance the signals traveling to he upstairs trvs.
We've had Honeywell Evohome for almost 5 years - I'd recommend. Been 100% reliable for us. 9 zones setup in our mid/late 1800s house, connected to a basic but new combi boiler. No connectivity issues despite ridiculously thick walls. No issues with the app - also have the central control panel although we rarely touch that and don't use the thermostat built into that - we rely on each zone's own TRV to assess the temp and call for heat based on each zone's programme.
Unsure on cost-saving/paying for itself as we fitted it within 2 months of moving in, so no baseline. However, we're using significantly less gas than previous occupants. Also approx 2/3 the gas usage of our previous house which was a slightly larger 2006 new-build (admittedly in a more exposed location), so on that basis I'd say it's worth it for us.
We have a Tado system , smart thermostat & 6 smart rad valves. We have found it to be excellent, an easy to use app. There were comprehensive instructions to install the smart thermostat & disable the wired one. We can heat rooms exactly how we like, the house is more comfortable & gas use is down.