Hive v Nest

[pault123]

Hi. I have a client who loves a gadget. He has 2 heating circuits (ground floor controlled by hard wired room stat, and 1st/2nd floor with a stat that would need to be wireless) plus a Worcester unvented hot water cylinder. Time control is via a 3 channel Horstmann.

He has asked for either a Nest or Hive system to control the heating.

I've fitted the nest a couple of times, but haven't had any feedback from it. No experience of the Hive.

Which of these two would you recommend?

I assume the wireless stat would need to plug into the mains for both of these?

Am I best to just leave hot water control on the Horstmann?

 

[Carlos_UK]

Hi, I have hive on my system, its the heating and hot water variant and I don't know how i managed without it! The wireless stat is battery powered so no wiring needed for that, unlike the nest. Also the reciever was a direct replacement for my existing programmer so it fitted straight onto the existing back plate with no modification. The only change I needed was to link the live and switched live together from the old room stat.