smallieboy
Established Member
Odd title, I know, but it's the start of the enquiry. So, here goes:
My parents, both in their late 80's and, to a fairly high degree, technophobic, live in a largish 3-bed house that they've said they'll be taken out of in boxes.
Mum feels the cold so the heating is on a lot of the time. Dad - who is basically her carer, and pays the bills - likes it colder but accepts the situation and recognises (unsurprisingly after 60-odd years of marriage) that it's not going to change. However, one of the things that irritates him is that the whole house is pretty much either like a sauna or a fridge. I got talking to him about Hive (and similar) and mentioned that I thought that he could control the temperature in individual rooms at specific times of day. So, for example, from early afternoon, Mum will be in the lounge where the temp needs to be 'high' while dad's in another room where it needs to be cooler. However, rooms like bathrooms need to be fairly constantly warm throughout the day.
Dad isn't so technophobic that he's resistant to change and he would learn how to use something to his benefit - it's things like BBC pushing iPlayer on him that really grips his sh!t. So, the questions are:
As always, I look forward to the informed answers from the AVForumites ......................... so, thanks in advance.
My parents, both in their late 80's and, to a fairly high degree, technophobic, live in a largish 3-bed house that they've said they'll be taken out of in boxes.
Mum feels the cold so the heating is on a lot of the time. Dad - who is basically her carer, and pays the bills - likes it colder but accepts the situation and recognises (unsurprisingly after 60-odd years of marriage) that it's not going to change. However, one of the things that irritates him is that the whole house is pretty much either like a sauna or a fridge. I got talking to him about Hive (and similar) and mentioned that I thought that he could control the temperature in individual rooms at specific times of day. So, for example, from early afternoon, Mum will be in the lounge where the temp needs to be 'high' while dad's in another room where it needs to be cooler. However, rooms like bathrooms need to be fairly constantly warm throughout the day.
Dad isn't so technophobic that he's resistant to change and he would learn how to use something to his benefit - it's things like BBC pushing iPlayer on him that really grips his sh!t. So, the questions are:
- what would we have to put in place, with something like Hive, to enable him to control the radiators in certain rooms? That is, does he need a hub, plus a TRV for each room he wants to control, or does he also need the thermostat?
- if he has the hub, presumably he can (if he ever wanted to) add lighting, etc.?
- does he have to have a smart phone to control it all?
- will Hive (and similar) work with any gas central heating?
As always, I look forward to the informed answers from the AVForumites ......................... so, thanks in advance.