Recent house renovations provided the perfect opportunity to rethink the heating system in my home and test out the smart Hive Thermostat for T3. While building work was in full swing last year with ...

The smart home, it’s a phrase that almost all of us will have heard and while it’s proving quite hard to define there’s one gadget that’s at the centre of it all: The smart thermostat. The Hive smart ...

British Gas has announced that its Hive Active Heating 2 is now available, adding “plumbed” multi-zone support, heating boost and a new holiday mode. Hive Active Heating 2, which replaces the ...

I’ve had the British Gas heating control system for quite a while now, since April 2013 in fact when it was first introduced. See our review here. Back then it was called simply enough the British Gas ...

Active Heating 2 is the successor to Hive’s first, rather basic-looking system. As well as being nicer to look at, Hive has been expanding the system’s capabilities, with sensors, smart lighting and ...

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Domestic energy bills are today’s political hot potato, so it’s good to know that you can take control and try to shave a little off your costs. Hive Active Heating lets you control a gas-powered hot ...

The British Gas subsidiary adds a remote control feature, so users can turn heating on or off when they are away from home British technology firm Hive is tackling what it believes is a national ...

Chris is the former Editor of Pocket-lint. He has been a technology journalist since 2008 and has covered the rise of Android and reviewed just about every important device along the way. Chris lives ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Energy prices have just shot up. On 1 April, Ofgem increased the energy price cap by 54 per cent, and households will see a steep ...

Hive was one of the first smart heating systems, starting life as British Gas Remote Heating Control in 2011, and while still a major player it lacks some of its flashy young rivals’ bells and ...