Hive-mindless

[davidgillon]

We got back to my sister's last night to find her Hive central heating control system had failed because the thermostat's batteries had run out of juice.

So she popped out (post Traitors final) to get replacements and then we set about trying to get the thing to reboot.

Cue an hour in her freezing garage arguing about how to interpret Hive's guidance on how to get the thermostat and the boiler to talk to each other again if they aren't speaking. (And it's not just that we were mis-interpreting them, they were seriously crap, for instance a how to reconnect video that showed you there were three different models of thermostat, but then only went through the process for one model, that didn't work in remotely the same way as the model we had).

At midnight, after an hour's trying, I announced I was freezing and I was going back into the warm to read up on the system. 10 minutes later I walked into the hall, held down the reset button on the 'Hive Hub', which is sort of a mini-router, for 10 seconds and the system promptly reconnected itself.

*headdesk*

 

 

Comments

Hats off for reading the manual

[jesse_the_k]

Okay, who thought it was a good idea to add something as vital as one's heat to the frickin' Internet of Things?

Whoever that clever clover was, they should have established a backup wired connection.

Re: Hats off for reading the manual

[davidgillon]

Well, the supposed plus point is you can turn the heating up from your phone so things are nice and toasty when you get in. But if the bits aren't talking to each other that doesn't help.