This is the only video I have seen that explains the wiring centre! I was struggling so much with that,but thanks to your video it now works! Thank you so much!

Thank you for this video. I was struggling with the hive install as it wasn't clear whether I exchanged the old wireless thermostat or the whole programmer for the hive receiver; you made that clear from the start which was great. The second crucial point you made was the small wiring change in the wiring centre. None of this is mentioned in the instructions so once again thank you so much for sharing this info....Adam

Saved me getting an engineer as hive instructions didn’t include this info. Thanks a lot!

Was having trouble with the installation and found this video. It was exactly what I needed, thank you!

Fantastic, clear , concise explanation at an excellent pace. I found this video extremely helpful. This is what KZfaq is about. Many thanks.

Great video but there's no mention of connecting the WiFi box to connect to the app. That would have been nice 👍

Great Video, have just installed my Hive in new home using this all working perfectly. Had the white wire with one three way valve 👍

Thanks for another great video to compliment your nest installs, I do agree with a previous comment about joining the wires together with a connector at the thermostat end which could be pushed back into the hole in the wall if you are going to position the hive in the same position. This would then leave all the wiring in place should you ever want to go back to a wired set up.

Want to thank you for this great video, I replaced mine to hive,

Easy to follow, thanks

Very clear instructions 👍 fantastic job

Great video! Very helpful. Thank you.

I do a lot of heating installs and this video is a top quality walk through. Well done👍

Really well explained clear n precise

Thank you - Worked perfectly

Brilliant video as usual thanks & keep up the good work 👍👍

Very good & well explained video. Thanks a lot.

Fantastic video

Excellent video thank you!

Finally got mine installed. Called hive as thought I messed up. No matter what the hot water boost button would not work on thermostat or in the app. Ended up a faulty thermostat. It was programmed as a single channel when it was meant to be dual. Screw fix exchanged came back with another and high presto it worked. I could now work for hive after my install ha

Great video, very easy to understand, please could you make a similar video for Hive multi-zone, eg. Hot Water, multiple CH zones and Underfloor Heating. thanks!

Very informative

Fab Video, Thank you.

Excellent video thankyou

Thank you so much

Great video!

Hi - I love your video. It has given me some confidence to self install the very same unit to my conventional OIL boiler with hot water tank that has the same controller unit as your video (except it has the double size back plate.. . Question - my current set up has as wireless analogue dial type room thermostat so apart from checking the connections on the controller back plate match up is there anything else I need to be aware of ?

nice and simple, thanks :-)

Great Video, well explained with good wiring references. I have a qeuestion: my system has a Standard Hot Water Circuit (with a 3-port Honeywell Valve) and TWO Heating Circuits (Downstairs & Upstairs) that each drive an ON/OFF Valve for the respective area. Would you be kind enough and add any comments of what extra changes I need to do to convert over fully to Hive Smart Heating. Oh! I should I add that there are also TWO Thermostats (one downstairs for the Downstairs Heating, and one upstairs for the Upstairs Heating). Thank you!

Great video

Thanks for you video. I have a BG model UP2 controller which has a spur off to a BG WR1 wireless receiver. I need to replace with dual receiver as shown in this video. If I were to remove the spurred wire from the UP2 and therefore disregard the WR1, would that be the correct starting point? I only have wires in N, L, 1 & 3 in both units. I hope that makes sense👍🏽

Great video , I have a question can I fix hive with old storage system running with system boiler with only one diverter valve fixed close to the tank .Thanks

Thank you for the video. Can I remove the hallway thermostat cable completely and insert a wire link between the terminals from which the brown and black cable has just been removed, so that they are electrically joined together.

hi great video ,iv seen a lot of videos on installing hive ,some dont make the wiring correction in the wiring conection box ,they just make sure in the modual the hw on and heating on is conected whats your thoughts on this , also i have a 2 zone house the living room has its own programer ,can i leave it there on it own , so the rest of the house on the hive thank you

Thanks for your patience.do you give training?

Hi I have always been watching you videos they r really helpful Thank u so much I am an apprentice and I want to wire a hive on s plan There are 4 motorized valves . Hot water. Heating. Towel rail.and underfloor heating Could u guide me a little bet on how to wire them thanks

Great video. Seems simple enough but I don’t have a thermostat at all. That’s the reason I’m getting one of these. Do I simply need to replace the old control unit with the hub and then just instal the WiFi thermostat. It seems to me to be a simpler installation for me because I don’t need to remove a thermostat. Please advise me.

Hi mate, Spot on, did exactly as you showed as I was stuck on the day! Only thing is that I couldn't rack my brain around is that the heating works when requested but when calling for hot water, the boiler is not firing up. Any ideas ??? Replaced ideal classic with Worcester Regular. Existing S Plan with unvented cylinder. Only omitted room stat and linked brown heating valve with programmer call wire. Can't find anything on this issue of hot water not firing up!

Do I need to mess around with wiring centre if I don’t have a thermostat?

Just subscribed. Can you please make a video on hive two zones heating

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Great 👍

Great video and helped with confirmation of what I was doing as had to rewire a control centre. I need to multizone hive a second thermostat for my underfloor heating, (s plan) it has the zone valve connected to zone 1 at the minute. Can you do a video for multi zone please?

Hi When I remove the thermostat from the control panel do I also remove the neutral from the thermostat aswell? And what do I link where the wire that it is connected to in the control panel.

My system has a wireless thermostat controlled by a honeywell r6660d, would the process be the same with the call for heat wires and then eliminate all other wires from the Honeywell box ?

Hello, great and clear instruction! How about for multi zone? Thanks

I have a Hive installed like you showed currently but want to switch to Nest. I tried mimicking the same wiring for a Nest receiver for my system boiler but it didn’t work, so I had to connect the Hive back up. Is there any additional steps needed when switching from a Hive system boiler setup to a Nest system boiler setup? Thanks!

Thank you great video. Please please can you do a hive multizone. Installation video. Would help me greatly. Again. Thanks. Urban

Hi, you have great videos. Quick question. If a get a Hive V3 heating and hot water, can I wire it to use one channel for a combi-boiler only? Cheers.

I am looking at installing Hive but I appear to have an older heating system that does not have an existing programmer, it instead has only a spur which runs direct into the boiler, the temp is then controlled by the radiator TRV's How easy is it to install the programmer on my system ? Assume it could be bridged between the spur and my boiler ?

Do I have to disconnect my old thermostat? We never used it and it no longer seems to have power? Would this impact Hive install in any way?

Hi, I have just purchased and fitted a dual channel HIVE system for my oil fired central heating and it is almost working 100%....but there was no wire behind my old analogue Honeywell controller for water....just 3 wires...L N and the common for live transfer so in effect if I hit the hot water option it just comes on at the switch as I can't heat water separately and never could unless it was the immersion in the hot press. Does this system require additional wiring to the receiver to turn on the immersion? Otherwise am I right in saying that the water option only is redundant? Hope all that makes sense. So when I turn on the heating the oil burner fires up outside and heats both radiators and water simultaneously but I just don’t see anyway of heating water separately with only 3 wires at the controller. Any advice appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Can you do one on how to install a nest. That would be of great help 🙏👍🏼👍🏼

Hello I have a hot water cylinder/tank and can't control my temperature if I put it on programme/schedule. Any tips. This morning I had luke warm water after I had put it on schedule.

Hi, great video and very well explanatory. My wiring centre is a Honeywell Smartfit it has a circuit board and very few cables going in, would it be possible to install an Hive thermostat? Thanks

I have just purchased a new hive hot water/central heating controller with hub & thermostat. Do I need to remove the old manual thermostat? If I wanted to remove it should I just disconnect the wires and terminate them safely? If I do terminate them do I then need to go to the old main controller and disconnect the same coloured wires? I currently have a a Drayton controller and the back box connectors look the same. Does this mean that I can just slot in the new hive controller as it is a 6 pin fitting. I am relatively proficient with electrics but have never installed a wireless system. Thanks

Hi thanks for video it’s great, however our thermostat has 3 wires going in and out Honeywell switchboard doesn’t have any wires that are connected together they’re all individual. Can we just disconnect the stat from the wall end?

I ordered by mistake a Dual Channel receiver which doesn`t have COM....but my old thermostat was wired to NO and COM...is there a way to fix it quick?

Can you help please. Since installing, heating works fine but hot water cylinder just continues heating, the cylinder thermostat seems to have stopped working. With hot water on all the time should the cylinder stat kick in and override hive?

Can the hive for system boiler be connected to combi as well and you just use the ch feature?

Hi - Am i able to use a dual channel on a combi? My boilers being replaced and changed from system to combi.

hi there thanks for a great advise and training .. i bout the hive thermostat used then i bought the hive hun used from another seller not knowing that it can only be register ones .. is there anyway deregistering the hive hub so new user can register in a new account ? any help would be great thanks

And if the oranges from the zone valves were joined into the same elctrical connection,vhow xan a zone valve not cause the other one to open as well?

Have a question in hive multi zone I stallation I am replacing Danfoss TP9000 Programmer Danfoss TP5000SI Danfoss TS2 Sensor I have 2 zones upstairs and downstairs Downstairs was straightforward as the Danfoss TS2 Sensor linked directly to the Danfoss TP9000 Programmer, so all I needed to do was disconnect it and replicate all the other wires in the hive and it works perfectly However the second zone uses the Danfoss TP5000SI and there is no power connected, so I therefore have no power for the hive multi zone reviever Question is where should I get the power from? Will this have to be routed from the boiler control box? Or can this run off a mains or lighting circuit? And I presume I will need a 3 amp spur switch like the main unit?

If I have hive fitted to a hot water and heating system and replace the boiler for a combi, will that hive system work still or would I need to replace for the heating only version?

Have a Hive 2, My stat's button has stopped being able to be pushed to select anything. Everything works from the app, I just cant use the dial to select anything the left right turning works. If I want to move it to another property will that still be possible or do I need the push button to work? In that property I dont need to be able tp push it just use the app. Whereas I will get a new one for here. Any advice from someone thats done the installation recently on this stat with the big round push button appreciated, thanks

@urbanplumbers if you left the wires as they are in the Junction Box but connected the wires together as shown at the now defunct thermostat end wouldnt that create the same circuit anyway? effectively connecting the two wires together? Great Guide and thank you

I have installed hive mini, do I still need the old room thermostat?

So the old programmer was only firing up the boiler on cylinder stat demand as the room stat wires were connected to the common of the programmer? How was the hot water demand separated from the heating demand, how can the zone valves not open each other and give all the time heating and hot water at th3 sake time?

Hello, I am getting constant hot water from my new system boiler which I don't need. Why then has the Hive thermo got a hot water only setting which would indicate to me that I can heat the water up only when I need it. This is frustrating me, can you advise please?

If 3 and 4 are switched lives to ch and hw it means that 1 and 2 are permanent lives but I don't see a link between L,1 and 2 why?

Could You please tell which and how many devices do I need to System boiler with hot water tank, 2 heating zones and UFH? I'm confused with how many HIVE receivers I need....

I'm a bit confused on the y plan one can you show hiw to do a u plan with hive please

Question. My main control unit has 2 extra wires for remote sensor, they are the same colour as the thermostat so does this mean I don’t need to change any wires in the big wiring box?

Where is my wiring centre likely to be. I cant find it!!

Great video dude. There is a question I've asked many people but never seem to get a straigt answer, maybe you can help. Im going to install a S paln system in my house. So it will have 1 hot water and 3 heating zones. I'm going to assume that the three heating zones will need there own thermostat, that seems logical enough. But can I hard wire them????? (the house is back to brick and while it's in a state I would like to a avoid using wireless where possible) If I can hard wire them what cable should I run to each thermostat Is 1.5-5 core enough??? Any answers would be great, thanks Do you work in and around London by any chance

Hi. So basically you don’t control the hot water temperature? Just on and of am I right?

How hot water is working if connected only heating?

I was wondering for a hive install can I leave the old thermostat on cranked to max (always calling for Central heating and place the hive thermostat somewhere else

Question, why can’t you just connect the wires together at the old thermostat end?

Don't need wiring for water?

I have no wall thermostat will I use the same hive?

I have no thermostat. Do I need to rewire anything in the wiring centre? Thanks.

OK I'm stupid amatuer here dumb question. If black programmer wire is only connected to brown wire from central heater valve, then how does this control the hot water valve?

Can it be wired so that it isn’t priority hot water on a Y plan?

You say at one point “if you are on a Y-Plan”? Could you explain? I’ve never heard of Y-Plan.

Can you do one for combi?

How do you decommision a thermostat with 4 wires from the wiring center? This video shows only 2 wires connecting to thermostat

Can I controll the thermostat in the way I can only use myself by my phone my tenant thy keep the temperature high with window open even when is summer, Please help

Same as all other videos. Very flaky in the wiring on the receiver. Just say you don’t know how to do it.

The information about proving a circuit safe to work on is incorrect. First test your meter on a known live circuit or proving unit. Secondly, test the circuit you wish to work on. Thirdly re test your meter on the known live circuit or proving unit. Then and only then can you be certain the circuit you wish to work on is dead. Your meter could have failed following proving on the initial test. From an authorised person for LV and HV systems