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P3D-Lab Stand for Hive Thermostat Mini White - 3 Years Warranty - Made in UK

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Aside from those niggles, however, the Hive Mini is an effective smart thermostat and one that I’ve found works effectively. It also lets you implement schedules, which can be as simple or as complicated as you like. You do this by setting up any number of slots, each of which is assigned a start time, end time and a target temperature.

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ You can leave it at that if you want, but the system only fully comes into its own if you enable its smart features, the most effective of which is its ability to support the optional Hive smart radiator valves. It’s great that the system can be expanded to provide multiroom control using Hive’s smart radiator valves and it’s also very easy to add other smart devices to the app’s front end and set up automations. With the larger Hive Thermostat you can create a schedule on the thermostat itself and tap a button on the top edge of the thermostat to put your heating into a temporary boost mode. With the Mini, you can still perform all these functions but you have to do so via the Hive app on your phone or your tablet.

The Hive system isn’t all about heating, though. There’s also a wide range of other smart hardware you can add to the app, from smart lightbulbs to door and motion sensors, and these can all be tied together by Hive “actions”. These actions allow you to set up schedules for lights and trigger certain things based on motion or when doors open and close. There’s even a smart burglar alarm system you can integrate into the system. Other smart features include the ability to interface with Alexa, HomeKit and Google Home/Assistant and support for IFTTT, so you can set up more complex automations. There’s also “geolocation”, which will turn off the heating if it detects you’ve left the house and turn it on when you’re close to home. Of course, that’s not all that the app allows you to do. At its most basic, the app allows you to turn your heating on and off from wherever you happen to be, whether you’re at home or out and about.

To be completely fair, this achieves largely the same thing and the app does explain what it’s doing, but it does seem an unnecessarily complicated way to go about the process. The good news is that Hive is, slowly but surely, adding features to this list and, since this review was first published has introduced a new feature called Schedule Assist. Thisanalyses your current schedule and makes suggestions on how to tweak things to make it more energy efficient. Based on the information you add when you set up the system, it shows you how much money the changes will save you and offers to make the change for you with a single button press.READ NEXT: The best smart thermostats to buy today Hive Thermostat Mini review: Hive app and Hive heating plus I’m slightly less impressed with the level of smart features on the Hive Mini, however. Although you can add efficiency monitoring you have to pay extra for that, and the system doesn’t adapt itself automatically to your habits, the weather or your behaviour over time like the Nest thermostats do.

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