How to install a HIVE? (split off from old thread)

[Sarah F]

Hi, sorry to jump in on this, trying to install our new Hive, we have two thermostats as our bedroom is separate. Not got multizone hive as it was a gift so plan to keep upstairs on a wired thermostat.

Hive thermostat is talking to the boiler bit for some reason, no heat coming from boiler. Could this be down to the fact there is a thermostat also upstairs, is an additional wire needed?

 

[J_N30]

Hi, sorry to jump in on this, trying to install our new Hive, we have two thermostats as our bedroom is separate. Not got multizone hive as it was a gift so plan to keep upstairs on a wired thermostat.

Hive thermostat is talking to the boiler bit for some reason, no heat coming from boiler. Could this be down to the fact there is a thermostat also upstairs, is an additional wire needed?

have you wired in the receiver to the downstairs zone valve? Or gone hardwired stat?

 

[ericmark]

Hi, sorry to jump in on this, trying to install our new Hive, we have two thermostats as our bedroom is separate. Not got multizone hive as it was a gift so plan to keep upstairs on a wired thermostat.

Hive thermostat is talking to the boiler bit for some reason, no heat coming from boiler. Could this be down to the fact there is a thermostat also upstairs, is an additional wire needed?

I would start a fresh thread, as your system may be different in some way. You have not said what boiler, but in the main with zone houses the thermostat controls the motorised valve, and the valve controls the boiler, this document says

Zonal control is any system that allows the heating of at least two zones to be controlled independently, in terms of operation temperature, time or both. Households may achieve this in a number of ways, but the most affordable mechanism for most households will be through the use of Thermostatic Radiator Valves (TRVs). TRVs are controls fitted to radiators throughout the home(excluding the room with the main thermostat) to allow the localised control of temperature in different rooms. Householders can optimise heat use by reducing temperature in individual rooms where they may require less heat, or deactivating radiators altogether in rooms that are used infrequently (e.g. spare bedrooms).

So it is allowed for you to combine the two valves and use Hive programmable TRV heads if you want. There are some systems now designed for two zones plus water heating, so much depends on what you have. At £50 each for the TRV heads it gets a tad expensive, so maybe better to say what you want the system to do? If a simple timed schedule will do the job, then maybe leaving the existing thermostat in place and using eQ-3 TRV heads at £10 each is a better option?

So start a new thread, and say both what you have and what you want it to do, also include any other "Smart" functions required, I did not set out to get Nest, it all started because I wanted to turn an alarm on/off remotely, and I also found no radio reception in new home, so the Google mini was really got to listen to Radio 4, but can also now use voice commands to check and alter what temperature has been set for 5 devices, one wall thermostat and four TRV heads. Plus turn Christmas lights on/off. All I want now is a Google mini for the car!!!!

 

[ianmcd]

You need to start your own post, it is against site rules to Hi-Jack posts and for very good reason, you have a completely different set up and will not get the correct advice

 

[ericmark]

Hive thermostat is talking to the boiler bit for some reason, no heat coming from boiler.

That completely confuses me, how do you know talking to boiler, if there is no heat? And

We have two thermostats as our bedroom is separate. Plan to keep upstairs on a wired thermostat.

So if zoned why would Hive connect to boiler?
Hive can be seen as simple switch. There are with the single channel two independent bits, power to Hive to make Hive work, and a set of relay contacts with common, normally open, and normally closed. In some systems you will link the Line and the Common which is likely the case where using zone valves, so you have 4 wires, earth, line in, neutral and line out, plus a link between Line and com, so line out goes to brown wire on zone valve and when the thermostat calls for heat, NO becomes line and the zone valve should move then the boiler should fire.