Hive Heating Plus 50% off - £19.95 for 1 year @ Hive

All I'd say here is this Hive Heating Plus is promoting features that most of us could work out ourselves without it. These savings it suggests are just "if you turn your heating down a degree you'll save XX" or if you only have your heating on for XX hours...etc.

This is all well and good but when you've got the other half cranking it up whenever she feels a chill (and that's after I've encouraged her to stick on a jumper...even offered to get it ) it just doesnt pan out.

I have a smart meter and I get historic stats from that so I'm not really seeing that element of benefit. Might be good though if you plan on hammering the 10% discount on other hive products.

Hive is very disappointing!
cameras are discontinuing from 2025 no more support for it all. Thieving buggers

You're not the only one and you get several days heating usage graphs as standard which I would imagine is all most people would need.

I tried the months free trial and no matter how I tried could not find a way to cancel without refusing payment. It basically shows what you used in hours which you can track on a note on your phone as basic hive shows you it by day. Hive plus gives you it retrospectively for a couple of years . I’m a numbers person I like tracking stuff if your too lazy to track yourself use this for £20 not too much but make sure you cancel in loads of time as they make it impossible

I quite like it, as my smart meter is a bit flakey and the free Loop app can't read my gas meter. I like the day view to see how much the heating has been on and when. You can easily see if you are saving anything over the same month last year. Also the alerts are useful if you are budgeting. I was only going to subscribe for the winter months, but might consider all year at this price. I have the radiator smart valves so the extra warranty might come in useful too.

I had this on a free 12 month trial but have just cancelled it as I didn't see the point and it wasn't even accurate. It was up to £40 a month off on my usage compared to my smart meter

Don’t trust Hive/ British Gas.
After spending a fortune on on hive heating, all the rad valves and their security system including cameras, window and door sensors, lights etc they had decided to cease any online support/usage for the security systems ie I won’t be able to to set the alarm remotely or view any cameras I have or for the cameras to record any footage rendering the full system useless.
The cameras just brick themselves and you can’t get any replacements as they’ve ceased making them because they are useless , always loosing connection, need resetting and lots of calls to customer services to resolve the issues.
Even though they know they have sold thousands and thousands of these cameras and security systems instead of refunding their customers for their shoddy equipment they have stopped manufacturing it under the guise that they want to concentrate on their devices being more eco friendly . Although this totally contradicts its self as all these devices will need binning in a year or so anyway because if they even are still working they will not anymore at their end….. how eco friendly is that !
Couple this with all the bugs their devices have and need rebooting and reconnecting every month or so including the rad valves that seem to always need recalibrating , I would steer clear from any of their products ….unfortunately I bought fully into this brand as I wanted everything in one place ( app)
As the person above said , when I move house I’ll be leaving all this junk. (edited)

Seems that no one likes the Hive Plus, however, I do have the Hive TRVs and they all seem to be working very well. We now have schedules for each room set up and only heat the rooms at the times we use them only had them a couple of months but no problems so far. Last gas bill was over £100 less than one a couple of months back. Only draw back is that you lose the ‘ready by’ feature, but I have a feeling that was one of the reasons we were using so much gas.