Wireless Thermostats.

Hive - works really well and the app is great. Steer clear of any “learning” thermostats as they end up being a pain IMO.

I have a Drayton Wiser on my oil boiler. Pretty good so far - recently replaced a Nest (bit rubbish). Works best when coupled with the wireless thermostats (and signal boosters if you have a larger house). If you just want the remote access, pretty much all the options will do that competently (even the Nest was fine for that).

Tado

Got to think ahead, ie do you want to go for controlled TRV’s in the future?

Personally I wouldn’t be without a full system now

Being an old oil burner it will likely not be a modulating boiler. So any smart stat will be as good as any other. Just get one you like the look of. On nest you can turn the learning bit off. Tado are good and not expensive. I don't rate my hive (installed by previous owner) so will be going tado next year.

+1 for Tado. It's great.

Wiser here with trvs on all rads except dining room/kitchen ( it's on a room stat) and bathroom

It's good , also good for giving room by room stats in cooling and heating because you effectively have a stat in each room.

Any room can call for heat. - that's why I've left the bathroom (towel rail and wet underfloor ) and dining room/kitchen (3 x 4500btu) rads off trv stats as it prevents/lowers microzoning of the oil boiler if any room calls alone as it does not modulate....but now ive got the system and schedule balanced that rarely happens unless I ask for it.

Hive is totally unsuitable for oil boilers because you can’t set a minimum cycle time. It’s designed for gas and if fitted to an oil boiler will see it to an early grave. I saw cycle times as short as 60 seconds on mine.

The other issue is support. Hive is made by British Gas and their technical support is woeful. The phone isn’t answered - I gave up after 90 minutes on hold - and emails just automatically reply directing you to the website. The hub is also a one-shot item and cannot be moved to another house or account.

Finally, the TRV implementation of Hive is a bodge. It doesn’t trigger the boiler directly, it “boosts” the zone with the main thermostat which in turn calls for heat.

Drayton Wiser would be my recommendation.

I would also steer clear of hive for reasons mentioned above. The heat geek www.heatgeek.com is full of useful advice.

I have Tado, it was easy to install and set up myself. Very good.

Drayton Wiser - specifically this one https://www.toolstation.com/drayton-digistat-programmable-room-thermostat/p81123?

We have fitted this in 9 properties with older boilers so far, houses and flats. Its been really good, easy to fit, tenants love it. Has a app so you can control from your phone, coem with a wall bracket and a table stand, you can clip it off the wall and move it around.
What I like is that when I upgrade the boilers it has the new optiheat outputs also so it will work with new standards and I won't have to buy new thermostats when I get a new boilers.

One thing with the Wiser is that it has a oil mode which means it won't turn the boiler on more than three times in an hour (gas is six times in an hour or opentherm).

The comment about the Hive hub may be true if you buy it from British Gas. If you buy it from Currys (like I did) then its not true.

Your Hive Hub can't be used by the new occupier of your home, so take that with you so you can install it in your new premises. If you'd like to continue using a Hive Thermostat, you'll need to buy it for your new home if it's not already installed there.

Directly from Hive’s website.

Hmm, my hub doesn't look like any that they have in their FAQ so it must be a very early one and they have changed how it works.

Drayton Wiser – specifically this one https://www.toolstation.com/drayton-digistat-programmable-room-thermostat/p81123?
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So not a Drayton wiser then ?

 

Have a look at evohome by honeywell. We've controllable TRVs on each rad. Works really well, only heating a room when it's needed.

I was looking for separate room controls so the choice was Evohome, Wiser or Tado so far as I could find out. Evohome seemed a bit expensive, though loooks the biz. Tado doesn't appear to have the capacity for network extenders, essential in my house, and appears to be more reliant on a server connection than Wiser. Wiser with a couple of repeater plugs does what I want. But the most basic Wiser system would be more expensive than the Drayton Digistat linked to above.

I use a netatmo thermostat. Has worked well for the last 4+ years.

So not a Drayton wiser then ?

Uses the wiser app. So yeah it is.

Well yes I guess your right. As long as your ignore what wiser actually is.