If your electric boiler works with a standard room thermostat or programmer, then Hive can control it. However, our smart thermostat can’t control storage heaters or individual plug-in electric room heaters. Hive Active Heating is compatible with most boilers, but it is incompatible with the following models: When you buy a Hive thermostat, you have the option to pay a little extra for professional installation. We’ll then arrange for one of our expert partner engineers to pop over and install it all for you. It doesn’t matter if you have a Worcester Bosch boiler or a Vailant combi boiler – our partners have been carefully trained and know how to safely work with any make or model. Smart heating controls can make it easier to manage heating and hot water to suit your home. This can help reduce your home's energy consumption. If you have a gas combi boiler, which controls both your heating and hot water, Hive can work with that too.

We’ll aim to have your new smart thermostat up and running in less than 90 minutes. And if for any reason, you don’t have a Hive compatible boiler you won’t have to pay us a penny. Here at Hive, we frequently get asked whether smart thermostats work with different types of boilers. It’s an important and understandable question – no-one wants to spend money on something they can’t actually use. So in this article we’re going to answer it with the attention and detail it deserves.

Vaillant VR 65 Control Centre: this is an external controller fitted to some compatible Vaillant boilers. It’s part of the existing central heating system and isn’t compatible with other external heating controls. Hive Thermostats can’t be installed with it unless the engineer removes the Valliant external controller. Our smart thermostats works with most UK gas-powered central heating systems. It also works with most Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) central heating systems, too.

Our smart thermostat doesn’t require you to replace your boiler. And although we’re a member of the British Gas family, our Hive boiler controls have been designed to work just as well with any brand – from a Glow-worm boiler to a Vailant boiler and everything in between. And while we’re talking about all things electric, Hive doesn’t work with electric underfloor heating. But it will work with water-based underfloor heating. In most cases, our Hive thermostats will work just fine with your boiler. However, there are a few small exceptions. This includes solid fuel boilers (such as biomass systems and coal), and some Worcester Intelligent Appliance boilers and Worcester combi boilers. The following list of boilers aren’t compatible with any external heating controls apart from Worcester’s own TR2 room thermostat. Honeywell SmartFit Controls: this system, sometimes installed to control gas and LPG boilers, is part of the existing central heating system and isn’t compatible with other external heating controls. Hive Thermostats can’t be installed with it unless the engineer removes the SmartFit controls first including all electrically operated valves.Our Hive thermostats will also work just as well with most oil boilers as long as it currently has a conventional thermostat or programmer.