Hive "crazy" thermostats set the temperature 32ºC

Smart home appliances sometimes get too smart. This shows an example of Hive home thermostats, which suddenly began to roast their owners.

The manufacturer British Gas today sent a statement to The Memo: "We are aware of a temperature failure that affected a very small number of users: a certain sequence of commands in the Hive application for iOS could lead to a temperature rise of up to 32ºC."

Toasted Affected users actively expressed their discontent on Twitter. Characteristically, the thermostat was persistent - the failure manifested itself several times, that is, it changed the temperature several times to 32 degrees.


British Gas has sold 300,000 of these thermostats. The manufacturer did not specify how many of them affected the bug.
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“Any users who see this can very easily and immediately correct the situation simply by lowering the temperature using a program on a smartphone, a web application, or on the thermostat itself,” the statement said. - No one needs to worry about too high a temperature, because the rest of the application is functioning normally. In the meantime, we are working on a software update that will soon be available. ”

Coincidentally, another smart thermostat Nest in mid-January, too, messed up . Due to a software failure, the device's battery quickly discharged - and the thermostat went offline, turning off the space heating at night in January frost. People woke up a little blue or woken by a baby cry at 4 in the morning, like the journalist of the NY Times. The manufacturing company called the cause of the December software update.