Domestic energy bills are today’s political hot potato, so it’s good to know that you can take control and try to shave a little off your costs. Hive Active Heating lets you control a gas-powered hot ...

Home automation isn't just the domain of hackers, Kickstarter projects and startups anymore -- now utilities companies are getting in on the action, too. British Gas has recently announced Hive Active ...

Of all the services offering to take control of your heating, Hive is probably the system that has the highest profile in the UK. At launch it was pitched as a British Gas company, now aligning itself ...

As you’ll know if you’ve read our review, we’re big fans of Hive’s Active Heating system (after all, who wouldn’t want a clever thermostat that can be tweaked using your phone?), and now the British ...

I’ve had the British Gas heating control system for quite a while now, since April 2013 in fact when it was first introduced. See our review here. Back then it was called simply enough the British Gas ...

There are plenty of Internet controlled thermostats on the market today, including the Nest thermostat. The idea behind these gadgets is to allow users to control the climate system in their home ...

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The smart home, it’s a phrase that almost all of us will have heard and while it’s proving quite hard to define there’s one gadget that’s at the centre of it all: The smart thermostat. The Hive smart ...

HIVE users are complaining that their home heating apps have mysteriously stopped working. The bizarre outage appears to have begun on Wednesday morning. Frustrated users have taken to Twitter and ...

British Gas has come up with a new system to control your home’s heating and hot water. Called Hive Active Heating, it’s designed to give you control of your home via PC, web tablet and mobile phone.