Welcome to Hive
Our family of smart products and services allow you to easily connect to your home through the Hive app.
So whether you’re in the next room or on top of a mountain, always have peace of mind knowing that you can control your home from your smart phone.
OUR SMART PRODUCTS
What is a smart home?
A smart home is a home equipped with automated smart devices that can be controlled remotely through a computer or smart phone.
Whether you're adjusting the heating whilst you're out, to lighting a room as you enter, smart devices allow you to tailor your home experience. Meaning less time spent on the small stuff, and more time doing the things you love.
Why Hive?
Meet our family
of smart products
Hive Active Heating
Hive Active Heating allows you to control your heating and hot water from wherever you are. Meaning you can always come back to a nice warm house, without ever having to heat an empty one.
You'll also know you're in safe hands with professional installation from fully trained British Gas engineers.
"Hive Active Heating has saved us money every year for the last three years we have had it. Result!"
Stephen – Hive Active Heating customer
How it works
Getting Started
Getting started with Hive couldn't be easier.
All our products can be bought individually at a one-off price, or spread
the cost as part of a monthly plan with a combination of Hive products.
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Select your products or plans from our online shop.
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Your devices will be delivered to your home. If you've chosen to have Hive Active Heating professionally installed, book an appointment for a British Gas engineer to set it up.
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Download the app for free from the relevant app store.
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Enjoy the benefits of your new smart home.
Connects with
Hive products already work with some other smart home devices. So, whether you have an Amazon Echo, Google Home, or IFTTT products, Hive products will help connect your home like never before.
The App
Whether you're boosting your heating, scheduling your lights or just checking in on the kids, our award-winning app lets you do it all at the touch of a button.
Actions
With Actions you can link up all your Hive products to work together. Imagine the lights turning on when you enter the room, or ensuring the iron switches off automatically when you leave the house.
Hive Active Heating
Hive Active Heating allows you to control your heating and hot water from wherever you are. Meaning you can always come back to a nice warm house, without ever having to heat an empty one.
Functionality:
- Turn your heating on & off from your smartphone
- Schedule your heating
- Boost your hot water
- Protect your home with Frost Protection
- Use geo-location to heat your home before you arrive
- You could save up to £120 a year on your heating bills
- Installed by British Gas engineers
"Love being able to pop the heating or hot water on just by a click of a button on my phone. As a busy mum of three this is so convenient"
Tanya – Hive Active Heating customer
Hive Cameras
Hive View is our stylish new smart indoor camera, packed with must-have features like HD livestreaming and person detection.
Functionality:
- Securely livestream to your app in 1080p HD
- Playback videos from the last 24 hours
- Person, motion and sound detection
- Monitor only when you want with privacy mode
- Grab and go functionality
"Excellent video quality, and especially night vision is great!"
Roy – Hive Camera customer
Hive Smart Lights
Control the brightness, tone and colour of your home with Hive Active Lights. So, whether you're setting the mood or saving on bills, you can do it all from your phone.
Choose from a choice of three smart lights: Dimmable, Cool to Warm White and Colour Changing.
Functionality:
- Control your lights from your mobile
- Adjust colour, temperature and mood
- Schedule when your lights turn off and on
- Use Mimic to look at home whilst you're away with Hive Live
"Love being able to turn the lights on at home when just a quick one turns into a whole bottle and you’re still in the pub when it's dark."
Colin - Hive Smart Lights customer
Hive Active Plugs
Have you ever worried about leaving your iron or hair-straighteners on after leaving the house? Well, never worry again! Hive Active Plugs let you switch plugs on and off from wherever you are through your phone.
Functionality:
- Control any plug from your mobile
- Switch plugs on or off remotely
- Schedule plugs to turn on automatically
- Connect with Hive Sensors to control plug when you leave or enter a room
"Our smart plug is only active on schedule from 6-7am, so we know hair straighteners are off after I leave for work."
James – Hive Active Plugs customer
Hive Smart Sensors
Enjoy life to the full, knowing that everything's safe at home with Hive Sensors. With notifications, if someone enters the house you can know what's going on at home even when you're not there.
Functionality:
- Choose from Hive Motion Sensor & Hive Window or Door Sensor
- Check whether your doors or windows are open
- Receive mobile notifications of any activity
- Log all activity
- Use motion sensors to control your home
"The motion sensors and window units add additional security and keep me updated instantly on my smart phone."
John – Hive Smart Sensors customer
