MiHome MIHO069 Smart Thermostat, White, 14cm Square

3 months nothing but hassle to get it to work propperly,the house temp and app two different temps so cant even turn heating off,the app will show what the temp was when it was pairred, have had replacement thermostat same thing,have always liked there produts but this smart range is not fit for porpose sensors when working give false readings eg says door is open when close and repeats door open, os if you set a alert you get two. double socketon the app the on buton is green and the off is red so you dont know if the socket is on or off the only way is to go to the socket and look your self have tuvs and switch still in box have had so much trouble with the rest wont bother to even try to in stall. please do wast not your money , time and your mental well being

Energenie MiHome MIHO069 Smart ThermostatIn the box.The unit is presented in a cardboard outer box, with a sponge / leather feel inner packing to hold it secure - very different from other Energenie products I have bought. It comes with batteries a pair of screws, and raw plugs.The unit.The unit its self comes in 2 parts - the wall attachment and the display unit. The wall attachment is screwed to the wall, and has the 2 wires connected to it.The connection is a plug in type, very straight forward using no screws to connect the wires. Once installed on the wall, the display unit pushes onto the wall attachment, using a series of pins to connect the pair. When removing the wall attachment initially, be careful not to bend these pins.Set up.I am used to the Mi home range, so knew what to expect here - the usual press the button, wait for the flashing to stop and off you go. However, while the pairing appeared to work first time, the temperature in the app did not update. After deleting and resetting ( removing batteries ), the second attempt worked properly.The difference being the units Antenna icon was illuminated on the second attempt, it did not display on the first.Installation.My original thermostat was an old ACL unit, which had 4 wires attached to it. After a bit of investigation on Google, it appears new digital thermostats do not need the blue wire, or the earth, just a common and connection to the boiler. I'd recommend doing your own research for this, or get an experts advice.Having taped over the 2 spare cables, and connected the required ones, drilled 2 holes in the wall and attached the base, the unit was installed.In use.The unit is designed to replace a wall based thermostat, it does not turn on or off the boiler, or the hot water. Multiple programs can be added to the unit to allow it to come on at certain times, and set a required temperature also. These however ( in my case ) require the timer on the boiler its self to be left on all the time.So when the unit is "off", the thermostat stops the heating from activating.A nice touch is the motion sensor - the unit only displays the temperature when it detects movement nearby, saving batteries.There is an icon on the display to indicate the unit is "on" and another showing when it has turned the heating on, this goes off when the required temperature is reached.There are a number of settings to adjust in the app - how quickly the unit responds, how close to the required temperature it runs, and an offset for the temperature in case you find the display is a degree out from a thermometer reading nearby.Alexa is happy to talk to it, you can ask the temperature, as well as turn the heating up or down.On the side of the unit there are 2 buttons for changing the required temperature, this is something the TRVs don't have, so you are forced to use the app to set them. This allows anyone to adjust the temperature, not just app users.OverallI really like the thermostat, it fills the gap between manual thermostats, and full house heating and water solutions like Nest.It has a solid well built feeling, responds to temperature changes as you'd expect, and was fairly straight forward to install.

I bought this as a direct replacement for my old manual thermostat when it broke.I am already committed to the Energenie products and this like the others is really very effective.The pros are the easy setup and use with the energenie hub. The hub is also a slight downside as it adds cost but does mean if your internet is out your thermostat will still work. Geofencing and program setup is great I occasionally forget to turn the heating down now that is managed by the timers and the system turns off if I am more than a mileFrom my home.The two key cons I am experiencing are that I keep getting told the connection has been lost to the thermostat and that it gets through batteries at a real speed. For a device like this that is not portable at all I am surprised there is not a battery or wired power option depending on what is available in your home heating wiring.Currently this is consuming one set of batteries about every five weeks.I do still think that at this price with these features for replacing an older thermostat you cannot go wrong with this product

Returned this item as it got stuck on heating. Should have turned off at 20c but kept on until 26c when I realised. Had to remove and tap to get it working properly. Could not take a chance on it of we were out so returned

This is quite a good product until it goes wrong. To raise a technical issue you have to open a support ticket. It takes days to get a reply. Nobody takes ownership of a problem, it feels like the replies are automatically generated. Completely faceless. It is now nearly 45 days since I raised an issue and I am still waiting for the promised resolution. You can call the sales team although they are business facing not retail facing. I did manage to extract a very reluctant apology (thank you so much) but couldn't secure a same day call back despite raising the problem 45 days ago! BE WARNED. Its a great product until you need some support!

Very pleased with this thermostat, after having installed for quite a while now. Haven't had any trouble with it the control is easy to use through the app. My only comment in regards to how it could be improved would be to make it a wireless thermostat so I could move it to any area of my house without running cables all over the place.

This product was easy to fit - just two wires from the old rotary room stat needed [the others i taped up and put back in the wall]. It controls the Central Heating from the App and i have linked to Alexa too. The CH slider on my programmer is now set to always on and i have timers set on the MiHome App. Seems good so far. Display lights up when you walk past it which is nice. It is a thermostat only, doesn't control hot water, but ive left that on the programmer, so four stars

It was not compatible with my heating system and to work with Alexa you needed the hub which added to the costs