Energy + Thermostat Questions

Yeah it turns it on or off. With a hot water tank there is no on demand setting. You need to plan ahead to warm the tank which then warms water passing through it

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Control of your water temperature is not supported by Hive Active Heating™. You can turn your hot water on or off, set a schedule or Boost it.
You can usually set the temperature of the hot water in your tank directly on your boiler (see your boiler’s instruction manual for details)

I'm about confused as to what boiler you are using ? A combi won't have a tank anyway and is always on demand
 
The Hot water tank is controlled via a tank stat that can be altered temperature wise. This is a mechanical switch though, so on demand it will only heat the water to the preset temperature.
 
Fully aware of that, I didn't explain it well, the only thermostat relevant to the Hive is the central heating one, the Hive doesn't control hot water temperature was all my point was, nor can is switch between direct from boiler and tank use.

Its just a fancy central heating controller/thermostat and hot water controller with a nice app. Good but not this miracle box people are making out!
 
Maccy said:
Eon standard home tariff for me, I monitor my usage a lot and their prices came out cheapest. Plus the bonus of clubcard points is a winner too.

I'm going to get Hive installed, Nest doesn't do both hot water and central heating and tado is more expensive (requires the additional extension unit as I have a programmable timer already). The new Hive system looks neat and the app has had some good updates recently.
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Not turning this into a Nest vs Hive but I had the Nest for a few months couldn't get it figure out the actual room temperature correctly. Swapped it for the new Hive recently and I get on a lot better with it. Also it runs off batteries and does not need to be cabled in like the Nest did.

There are a lot of new features of the Hive coming soon along with an array of products that can be controlled via the app.

I am with OVO with a smart meter, cheapest at the time great customer support much better than BG and EDF both were utter dog poo when we moved into our house.
 
OVO here as well with smart meters for gas + electricity on their standard tariff. But I'm almost £500 in credit, due to them mucking up the billing when I changed to smart meters, but considering I'm getting around 3% interest I'm not concerned.

Just standard heating/hot water controls + analogue thermostat but that's definitely going to be changed probably either for a Tado or Salus system.

Have a read of this https://recombu.com/digital/article...-genius-owl-tado-salus-it500-cosy_M13058.html as it's been really helpful for me when deciding on the connected heating solutions :)
 
I have Tado and it pretty cool and works well....I'm not sure If it will save me money as I was pretty tight with the old thermostat program before.....but tado does makes sure the house is nice and warm when I get home with no interaction and I can leave\comeback whenever I want with no interaction due to the location tracking...
 
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