BoschSmart Home 8750000261 Intelligent Home White

I am trying to be as eco-friendly as possible and I decided that being able to limit or turn off heat to certain rooms from my phone would let me save energy and money.These look great at first and you would expect high quality from Bosch but sorry they are just terrible, first for the high cost they are made of the cheapest horrible feeling plastic in the world and they are just creaky and should be more like £10-£20 each for this sort of quality.The fittings aren't too bad but you definitely don't get everything you need for every situation and again for the cost you should get everything that you need and not have to purchase anything extra.Luckily I managed to fit my five thermostats but two did require a little known 1p coin trick, basically on some radiators the valve is to low and the unit can’t travel far enough to close and open the valve so the unit won't calibrate or work, if you put a 1p coin in between it will then be able to reach.By the way the controller takes forever to get setup, it could be downloading firmware but honestly it's like 20-30 minutes from plugin for the thing to be ready to go and the units themselves say updating firmware for like two days, everything is just very, very slow.So after finally getting the units to calibrate I started to play with the different features and set the temperatures that I wanted in each room but when I set temperatures on two of the thermostats from my phone they didn’t do anything and they just went offline.I waited a while and one came back on but then disappeared again, so I waited a good while longer but nothing else happened so I removed the batteries and restarted the units, they then showed online and everything seemed fine but then I would set the temperature and they would once again go offline.It can’t be signal as it’s not a huge house and the other thermostats were further away with walls in between and they didn’t have any issues at all, moved the controller anyway but they still had constant connectivity issues.There's a booster that you can buy but once again it’s spending even more money on something that should just work at this price point!Another problem is that they don’t detect the temperature very well, they can be 2°C-5°C out,I get that you can adjust the temperature but again at these prices you shouldn’t have to be correcting the temperature.The next issue is also to do with temperature, it always goes higher than what you set it to, I can set the radiator in a completely different room that isn’t affected by another room's temperature and it will end up a good chunk higher, for example I set the radiator to heat up to 18°C but it would keep going to 22°C.If I went to the settings for the radiator it would show the valve position still open at a certain percentage for example 30%, surely if the room was warm enough the valve should be closed??I was really hoping these were going to be fantastic for the cost but they are just rubbish, even if you manage to get past all of these issues and the messing about, I have now read all the bad reviews about constantly needing the batteries replaced, units suddenly dying, units falling apart after a few years etc it just seems like a product that is going to be a constant headache.These are definitely all going back to Amazon for a refund, I was going to purchase more thermostats and some door sensors which in total would have been about £800 but no way.

Our radiator is behind cupboards so it not easy to change heating. With this life is so muchceasier and i can control it when when out. Just make sure you buy the whole thing as without the main hube you cannot use. Also got it on a promo price which im very happy about

Perfectly working, we love it!

We've been Hue users for a while, but this Climate Control kit from Bosch (part of their "Smart Home" range of connected products) goes one step further, allowing specific radiators to be controlled by your phone app.The principle is quite simple, but a good one; you screw the control knob off your radiator, replace it with the thermostatic one from the kit (the kit comes with two, so this can control two radiators), and then you use the Bosch Smart Home app to control these. You set the required temperature from the app, which then sends commands to the thermostatic knob to turn to either open or close the radiator valve as appropriate.This works really well, and the app is perhaps the best home control app I've seen. It's a really good idea, and works well. The only downside is that the kit does two radiators, but I guess Bosch then want you to buy more!

I found the theromasat controls and adjustments need for my radiator akward and cumbersome to put on . Depending on your radiators it can be really easy , or like mine a lot of unscrewing an dadaptors to be added. This to be honest did put me off and the adaptors don’t look as neat either .Once set up it works well and the ease of being able to control your heating when your away from home and with the Uk’s Constantly changing weather is good. I do think if it was set up that it might be very good for elderly people and making sure their heating is on and ata healthy temperature . For this I think it funstions very well.It works better than my old general temperature gauge .I did feel it a bit pricey for what you get and would be interested in the add on’s but I would suggest maybe looking at the next model up when purchasing and spending a bit more to get a more complete home security and home heating system .