Nest and Hive are the two market leading thermostats in the UK. A smart thermostat can be used to control your home’s heating system. Their programmable functions allow the user the ability to control the temperature in their own home, either using a schedule or access to boost the heating remotely from an app on your mobile phone. The aim of smart thermostats is to reduce the amount of heating that the home uses as it puts you in direct control. The ease of use is essential for energy savings and bill reduction.
When you relate this to older outdated room thermostat that simply controls the heat by the turn of a dial, and if the heating drops below a certain point it simply turns the heating back on again.
The smart thermostat alternative gives you control you can schedule all 7 days and set up different heating requirements on each day. With the heating going on and off several times a day, or turn on boost mode to boost for an additional hour at a time. These can be used with gas, LPG or electric heating or air and ground source heating.
- Combi and condensing boilers
- System and heat-only boilers
- Hydronic underfloor systems
- Air-source and ground-source heat pumps
- Switched live systems
- Low-voltage dry-contact systems
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Which is best Hive or Nest Thermostats?
Nest and Hive are both good looking thermostats personally I prefer the Hive as I love the sleek shinny cover which is stunning and fits well with your decorations and looks sleek on the wall but Nest has won awards for its practical design as you can twist the dial to gain instant heat.
Nest V Hive at a glance….
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Nest Thermostat |
Hive Thermostat |
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Design |
Black and orange modern colour |
Silver sleek modern |
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GPS and Self Learning |
Yes to GPS, Yes to learning technology a plus as it will monitor you going in and out |
Yes to GPS, no advanced leaning technology to monitor you going in and out |
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Voice Compatible |
Yes Amazon echo, Google Home |
Yes Amazon echo, Google Home |
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App controlled |
Yes add an app to your mobile and control your heating from anywhere |
Yes add an app to your mobile and control your heating from anywhere |
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Requirements |
Internet to operate and will need setting up by an engineer |
Internet to operate and will need setting up by an engineer |
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Boiler Compatible with |
Gas, LPG and electric, combi boilers, system boilers and air source and ground source heat pumps |
Gas, LPG and electric, combi boilers, system boilers |
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Zones |
Up to 20 zones in your home |
Up to three zones |
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Warranty |
2 years |
1 year |
Self Learning Thermostat V Manual
The Hive is a manual option, which lacks the self-learning element but still offers easy-to-use controls through their app, or on the device itself. Each thermostat offers the use of smartphone apps to easily control their systems at home or away. …
Nest wining feature is a self learning thermostat. After one week of being installed it will have adapted to the schedule of your home and will anticipate your heating needs without needing to be scheduled.
After this you shouldn’t need to adjust the settings very often at all. In the case of Hive Active Heating you can schedule up to 6 heating periods, i.e. getting up, morning, afternoon, evening, bedtime, night. However, the Hive app can’t pick up your habits automatically like a Nest learning thermostat can.
Heating Preferences
Both Hive and Nest give you more control over your heating preferences. You can heat individual rooms at different temperatures so you only heat the areas you are using. … There is little to choose between Nest and Hive when it comes to performance. Both thermostats are pretty evenly matched in the key areas
The Nest thermostat needs to be powered by the mains which may restrict where you position it in your home. The Hive thermostat, by contrast, can be powered by AA batteries which gives you more flexibility. British Gas claim the batteries will last for up to 2 years.
Motion Sensor
Both Hive and Nest have GPS tracking on your phones, but Nest wins again with a motion sensor that responds to you leaving and entering the home
Voice Compatible
Linking your Hive or Nest with a voice assistant like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant is just one way you can help improve your life, making it even more relaxing or productive as yopu can speak to give instructions to the thermostat. Both Hive and Nest are voice compatible.
Winner Hive or Nest
Both of these Smart thermostats are winners but the Nest does have the Nest Learning which may be appealing to you as the advanced learning technology and it could offer you advanced savings as well.
