Since finding out that Hive have restricted their older ‘Smart’ plug from being remotely switched on/off, it become a mini obsession of mine to prove that the plug
I have already written a short post about Hive’s v5 API in which I document some V5’s basic calls including temperature control. In this post I document the
I recently upgraded my heating control to the 2nd Generation Hive Active Heating Thermostat. To ensure complete Zigbee wireless coverage throughout my house I wanted to add a
I have recently upgraded my remote heating setup from Horstmann Z-Wave thermostat to the Hive Zigbee Thermostat (2nd Generation). The Hive Active Heating system is an innovation of
I have already written a post about my difficulty in 2013 persuading British Gas to install Smart Meters, followed by installation issues fraught with delays. I am sorry
Following my mission to get smart meters installed I started to look into the possibility of using Zigbee to gather my energy usage statistics from my new state
After quite a bit of pestering and waiting I eventually managed to persuade British Gas to swap out my archaic Electricity and Gas meters for the latest ‘Phase