Hive Smart Heating Thermostatic Radiator Valve (TRV) with Smartphone Compatibility, White

I live in a 3 bed house and decided that while the kids are off to university to fit these valves to all of our radiators. Now, I'm not technical in the least with this stuff but if I can fit them and setup then definitely anybody can. Initially I only bought a few as they are not cheap but I did wait for deal time before purchasing them. Now the great thing about these is that where ever you fit a valve, you can essentially own everything about that radiator. You can put whatever heat programme you want. After initially buying a few of them, I ended up putting them on every radiator. The fitting is simple, your old valve screws off. This valve comes with 2 fitments, they will then fit straight on to your radiator. Before placing them on the radiator, you will need to insert the 2 AA batteries (supplied) in to them and then once placed (can be vertical or horizontal) you pair it with the Hive app. It's important to note in the app whether is placed vertically or horizonally. Follow the pairing instructions and after a few mins you're good to go. It really is as simple as that and then you can configure that valve till your heart is content. You can even had that radiator switch the boiler on just to heat it (called Heat on Demand) which we have set for just a few radiators in the house since not all of them are being used. I have had them installed for a year now and not had any problems yet.

Cannot fault this trv as it paired quickly and appeared on the Hive app. Actioned it with a Hive motion sensor without problem. In dining room boosts temperature when presence detected and can either let more hot water through if heating is on. There is an option to turn the boiler on if heating is off but that would heat the rest of the house if the Hive Thermostat is satisfied. Despite the Hive Receiver going wrong and not working with the Thermostat, the trv and sensor were still online and working on the app and control the trv state. Unfortunately, calling for heating did not work because the Receiver was down. When a new Receiver was fitted, the trv and motion sensor automatically connected to it. Apart from the cost, I must recommended this device.

I have Hive heating control so decided to buy a number of these and fit round the house. Idea being that during lockdown I didn't want to heat the whole house while working from home, as only the few rooms I needed. Do they work - yes they do. Fairly easy to set up individual schedules for each room in the house and the heat boost is a useful feature. Battery life is unknown at this point but they are 2 AA batteries per valve so no problem to replace. Ease of install - Following the instructions through the Hive app was simple and all fitted without issue. Little tricky to remove as the collar is hard to grip once installed. Calibration of the valves was a faff as needed to haver the heating on to complete, but once done no issues. Range of Signal - 1 room proved to be a problem and the valve kept on dropping off line. Moved it and the valve works fine so must be the signal. Hopefully a Hive range extender will solve. Overall pleased with them as they do what I need. Only downside is the price as doing multiple rooms the cost soon builds up - saying that I only bought them when on offer, not full price.

I have had a Hive thermostat for years and toyed with the idea of adding the radiator valves once gas prices increased. I took the plunge and replaced the valves on 5 of my radiators with Hive valves which was a considerable outlay but I can see that it will save me money in the long run. I work from home so it allows me to only heat my little office during the day and just have the other rooms set to a minimum 17C. Each radiator valve demands heat only as needed and overall t works very well as I can feel the different warmth in the rooms of my house. Now that I have bought them of course the price has dropped to £38 each which I think is good value now - better than it was at £50 each when I bought mine. It's definitely worth familiarising yourself with the fitting instructions and requirements before purchasing these. Once I understood what i was doing it was easy to unscrew the old TRV and screw on the new Hive ones. The supplied adapters fitted two of my radiators but I had to call Hive (30 minute call queue) to order adapters for Giacomini valves and these arrived FOC 2 days later. Another top tip is don't skip the step where you check that the valve pin moves up and down when you remove the old TRV. Three of mine were stuck open and I used a squirt of WD40 and a gentle tap with a small hammer to loosen them so I could press the pin with my thumb. I ended up applying WD40 to all the valve pins while the TRVs were off. The Hive valve won't be able to control the hot water flow if the pin is stuck. One of your radiators will need to be left without a TRV (normally the one in the room with the Hive thermostat). The Hive app is pretty good and you can see the actual temperature of each valve at a glance on the dashboard but it would but great if Hive could add in the set temperature too on this display. Overall I think these are a worthwhile purchase if you are buying into the Hive ecosystem. They have definitely made everyone in our household more aware of the flow of heat around the house and the importance of shutting doors etc to keep the heat where its needed and not wasted.

If I stop one person buying these then this review will be worth it. I bought these in summer and finally got round to using them properly now the cold weather has come around. I saw the bad reviews before buying these and assumed they were because they didn’t understand the product, they weren’t calibrated etc. but it turns out they were right and that these are absolutely terrible. For one they cost an absolute fortune, I have 8 of these around the house, including a multi zone hive system hooked up to the boiler. I have many issues with these, one is the temperature the TRV thinks it is, I walk into a literal sauna is one room and the Trv is telling me it’s only 12 degrees so it’s calling for more and more heat and costing me a fortune for a room that’s already at 30 degrees. Another issue I have is just that they sometimes decide to work and sometimes don’t, at the time of writing this review I have one of the TRV’s set to 20 degrees, by boiler is on and the room is freezing, it’s been on for around 40 minutes and the radiator hasn’t even got up to temperate yet, the other radiators on the same zone are hot so it’s quite clearly a trv issue. Another major issue is the lag, I have All TRV’s set up to ‘heat on demand’ this essentially means if that’s TRV gets 0.5 degrees below the set temp, it tells the receiver to turn the boiler on, this then turns that particular radiator on, and any other radiators on that zone without TRV’s. However the boiler just doesn’t come on, quick look at the app and you can see the TRV is asking for heat, and the receiver hasn’t picked it up so it’s not turned the boiler on, the room is getting colder and colder in the mean time. I know what you’re thinking, why don’t you ring customer support !? I have.. on many many occasions, I have been hung up on so many times, including asked to wait on hold, then hung on whilst on hold because they can’t or don’t want to help with such an awful product. I managed to get as far as sending some pictures to an email address I was provided, with no response, I’ve also made lots of follow up calls about the email and I have been hung up on, and told many times I would receive a call ‘ in a few hours ‘ and I never do. I’m now around £700 down for the full system, little bit more if you add the installation of the original multi zone. And I have a system that doesn’t work and is costing me an absolute fortune in gas. One last little rang is let’s say as a 1 off it actually goes to plan, I get a little chilly in the living room, I manually turn the TVR up in that room so that I’m saving some gas only having 1 radiator on, it tells the receiver and the boiler turns on, winner right ? No! It uses some kind of battery saving mode that takes around 20 minutes before the radiator actually gets warm, so the boiler has just been burning gas for 20 minutes and the radiator has been given the smallest bit of hot water by the TVR. I might aswell set fire to money, I’d get warm for cheaper. To summarise, this product is riddled in defects, errors, software malfunctions, randomness, and to top this all off. The worst customer support I have even dealt with. Just a bit of background on myself, I’m an engineer, always polite on the phones to customer service, and I know they are set up correctly.

I’ve been using the Hive TRV’s for a couple of months now on four upstairs bedroom radiators. In theory they sound like a great idea - only heat the rooms you need to. All my radiators are relatively new and I cleaned all the pins so they should work perfectly. In practice, they seem to work intermittently. I’ve tried resetting them, forcing re-calibrations and even re-seating them without much luck. The TRV’s will periodically allow radiators to heat up when no heat has been demanded. It’s very difficult to know if they are currently calibrated via the app without writing Python code to query the Hive API which gives much more information about what is going on. BG in their infinite wisdom have taken away the option to re-calibrate via the app. Temperature readings seem inaccurate based on an undocumented algorithm and vary from one TRV to another. Unlike the Hive thermostats, the TRV’s don’t provide any temperature over time graphs within the app. Fitting is clean and easy, but your radiators (especially thermostatic pins) need to be in good working order. WiFi range is adequate but will struggle in larger homes without boosters. At the end of the day these are not cheap items and they really should work better and more reliably for the price. Maybe BG can resolve some of the issues with firmware updates, but given this is now quite a mature product, don’t hold your breath. Overall hard to fully recommend. When they work correctly they are great and must save energy, but too often they misbehave and become an annoyance.

I recently installed the Hive Smart Heating TRVs, and while the setup was a bit fiddly, I managed to get them working fairly quickly. The installation guide was clear and straightforward, so that helped smooth things out, even if there were a few steps involved. Once set up, the TRVs synced up well with my existing Hive thermostat, and the app control is genuinely smart and convenient. It’s great to be able to control individual radiators from my phone, especially for managing the heating in different rooms without needing to adjust everything manually. One thing to note, though: the temperature reading on the TRVs isn’t an exact reflection of the room’s temperature. It’s more of an approximation, which I didn’t realise until after installation. Not a dealbreaker, but something to be aware of if you’re looking for super-precise room control. Overall, they’re pretty solid value for money, and I’d recommend them if you’re after a high-quality smart heating solution with the flexibility to manage zones individually.

Reviews on the Hive TRV are mostly good, but there are some that say they are unreliable or not worth the money. Because of that, I waited 3 months to post this review. All I can say is this. The 4 valves were a 5 minute job to install, with the only tricky one being where access to the radiator valve is slightly restricted, and it needed nimble fingers to get it threaded on efficiently. Otherwise, it's an easy swap for an existing TRV. Setting them up in the Hive app was also a doddle. Connection was almost instant on all 4 valves, despite one being the opposite corner of the house from the router, and tucked in a corner. The longest part of the job was setting up the schedules for each radiator but once done, they have only needed minor adjustments since then. The effect has been really noticeable. If a radiator comes on, and the room reaches temperature quickly, it just goes off again. If we have the fire on in the living room, the radiators in there don't even come on at all. Rather than heat the whole house from early evening, the bedrooms are set to come on much later, rather than pointlessly heating them for hours, with nobody in them. It simply has to be more efficient than every radiator in the house being on at the same time. Is there potential for a saving, given the cost of the valves? If say there has to be. A one time payment, with lower monthly bills, is definitely my preferred way of doing things. As for complaints about the noise, I have to wonder what people are hearing. There is a quiet mechanical whirring, as the valves open and close, but you don't even hear them most of the time. All in all, I can find nothing to suggest the Hive TRV is not a very useful addition to any house.