Bosch Smart Home Room Climate Starter Kit with app function (Version for UK – compatible with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple Homekit)
Getting started made easy
Our starter kits make getting started with a smart home child’s play – with in intelligent heating control system, for example.
An efficient feel-good climate
The interaction between the individual devices ensures a feel-good climate within your own four walls without wasting energy in the process.
Flexible expansion
Expand your Bosch Smart Home however you like – both with products from Bosch Smart Home and with compatible products from our partners.
Easy to control
The free and regularly updated Bosch Smart Home app ensures that you can control your alarm system in the easiest manner.
Cleverly controls your room climate
The crucial component of your starter kit is the Bosch Smart Home controller. It controls all of the devices in your smart home and makes sure your intelligent heating control system works seamlessly. If the door/window contact registers that a door or a window is opened, then it passes this information on to the Bosch Smart Home controller. This then ensures that the smart radiator thermostat turns the temperature down. Very clever, isn’t it?
Everything under control with the Bosch Smart Home app
Controlling your room climate is child’s play with the Bosch Smart Home app: a tap of your finger is all it takes to set the desired temperature. You can also define your individual heating rhythm with the help of time programs. By the way: the radiator thermostat can also be controlled via voice command: it is compatible with Amazon Alexa, Siri and the Google Assistant.
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Smart radiator thermostat with triple protection
Once on the spot, the radiator thermostat has triple protection. In addition to a child lock, it also offers frost and limescale protection, as well as failure protection.
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Thought of everything?
Never forget open doors and windows again, because the door/window contact is always paying attention. In the Bosch Smart Home app, you can see at a glance whether you have thought of everything.
| Weight: | 1.78 kg |
| Dimensions: | 18.6 x 19.1 x 27.85 cm; 1.78 Kilograms |
| Model: | 8750000261 |
| Colour: | White |
| Manufacture: | Bosch |
| Colour: | White |
Our radiator is behind cupboards so it not easy to change heating. With this life is so muchceasier and i can control it when when out. Just make sure you buy the whole thing as without the main hube you cannot use. Also got it on a promo price which im very happy abou
Once set up it works well and the ease of being able to control your heating when your away from home and with the Uk’s Constantly changing weather is good. I do think if it was set up that it might be very good for elderly people and making sure their heating is on and ata healthy temperature . For this I think it funstions very well.
It works better than my old general temperature gauge .
I did feel it a bit pricey for what you get and would be interested in the add on’s but I would suggest maybe looking at the next model up when purchasing and spending a bit more to get a more complete home security and home heating system .
The free app (iOS and Android) is a breeze to use – it has a step-by-step walkthrough for the setup / connection process that gets your control centre up and running very quickly. When your router, control centre and app are talking to one another, adjusting settings / timers is all handled by the user-friendly, simple (maybe a bit too simple, as it could do with some more tweakability, I thought) app. Alexa integration is detailed on the Bosch website, although from there it looks like full voice control won’t be available until Spring 2018.
While the door / window contacts are not beyond anyone with some basic DIY skills (easily mountable like the similar Motorola Smart Nursery Single Alert Sensor With Window And Door Open And Closed Notifications ), plumbing everything in will be a stretch for many, so it’s best to get some assistance rather than tackle it yourself. Regarding the physical setup of the radiator system, a bit more knowhow / DIY knowledge will be required to install the thermostat devices, as it’s not something to be approached unless you’re really familiar with the setup.
In terms of design, the units are clean, unobtrusive and smart-looking with their off-white finish – the control centre in particular is sleek, unbusy (the main operation being offloaded to the app) and barely noticeable – you’ll just need to find a way to keep it discreetly plugged in.
The usefulness of this kit is chiefly as a way in to the rapidly expanding home automation scene, and it offers a great jumping point for that. In terms of extensibility, as well as specialist components, you can add in all sorts of appliances with the general plug unit Bosch Smart Home Plug . It may seem pricy compared to less generalised, more specialised automated thermostat setups like tado Smart Radiator Thermostat Starter Kit – vertical mounting – intelligent heating control with geofencing via smartphone , but Bosch is clearly intending the Smart Home to be a control centre for all sorts of applications, and not just heating. This starter pack will provide the initial infrastructure, from which you can explore, extend and enjoy home automation. Hopefully, the utility of this kit will only grow with time as Bosch extends and improves the range of attachable modules!
The kit comes with the home hub which plugs directly into the router (no Ethernet cable supplied), download the app and then hey presto away you go, controlling radiators and checking access via the door contact.
The app is easy to use and includes controls to set up hue lights within the app. although its not as good on the options front as the hue app it does offer a certain amount of functionality.
A neat starter kit for the smart home.
One simply follows the precise and methodical instructions. Install the App first, which takes a minute or two, then the hub controller and make sure it’s connected to the internet. I used an iPad as my device and it is then a simple matter of installing each device in turn by scanning the QR code. One could also load it to one’s phone. Stickers are available with the specific QR code but the nice thing is each device has it duplicated in the battery compartment so that it isn’t really possible to lose them or get them mixed up! Everything is there that one needs for a set up including screws rawlplugs and even batteries. The starter kit contains a door or window contact and two central heating valves known as TRV (thermostatic radiator valves).
Once the App is running one simply installs the devices one at a time and you can label the devices and the rooms they go in so as to enable one to achieve precise control.
The hub or Smart Home Controller is a slim and elegant device one can leave it flat on a shelf or wall mount it and the wires tuck away nicely although I think it would look superb in either a new build or if one were prepared to channel out the plaster for the wires before mounting it in a central location.
I installed the magnetic window and door contact first and this is easy enough. I made the mistake of positioning the magnet at the lower end but it really needs to go at the top end next to the LED light. Also be careful as the cover needs to slide down a little to take it off or up to re-position it. I’d positioned mine at the bottom edge of the door and set it a little too low. The instructions advise positioning at the top edge of windows and doors so you may wish to bear this in mind.
I then positioned the central heating TRVs and once again the App and the scanned QR code leads to a simple 3-step installation which is fairly quick. The TRV spends a minute or two self-calibrating and will then communicate with the App and also allow one to regulate the temperature of the TRV/room. Please note we have TRV valves fitted to nearly all our radiators and these simply unscrew and the Bosch controller will take up the same threaded mount and screwing it home by hand is sufficient. There are various adaptors included for radiators without TRVs. Also please take a look at the photos as the TRV can be a little prominent in certain pipe configurations and I was able to switch mine round a little before the wife came home! Please note too there is still a manual override on each TRV and my wife likes to turn them up to maximum if she feels a little chilly.
Setup for both types of device went smoothly and without complications.
The App is well-featured and easy to use. It is also versatile and capable of being expanded with more devices and also different types of device such as the Philips lighting range and also smoke detectors and powered sockets. It also upgrades automatically. The diagram I saw was for continental type plugs but I am sure that a company with the resources of Robert Bosch will produce a typical English 3-pin sockets too. The App is also capable of being fine-tuned not just for things like alarms when the door or window has been opened or one of the smoke detectors goes off but one can also program a pattern of say a ‘working day’ or ‘holiday’ and so on where one would require different temperatures in certain rooms at certain times of the day. If our girls come home for the weekend I turn up the TRVs in their room and en-suite and down again when they leave. This system would do all that automatically once the certain pattern had been saved. Thus one might have “Lottie, home” or “Emily,away” and so on. Similarly one could adjust temperatures if a door was open. As you will realise this can all be done remotely so lights and heating could be on as one leaves work.
As I hope I have conveyed, this is a taster of things to come. There are few household items/appliances that cannot be configured and then controlled in this way and it’s fascinating to watch it tweak the radiator valves. I see there is compatibility with the Philips lighting range so one could be in when one is out and so on. Ultimately, once the controller is installed all else will follow and hence my suggestion of wiring it in properly from the outset as I suspect the range of applications and devices will expand steadily. I suspect too that it would be very easy to allow compatibility with burglar alarms and home door-entry systems.
Ultimately, then this is the start of a much larger home automation and the only limits I suspect will be the availability of suitable interfaces and one’s imagination. Without doubt the potential is massive and one could do a lot worse than making a start with this system. Many thanks.
The principle is quite simple, but a good one; you screw the control knob off your radiator, replace it with the thermostatic one from the kit (the kit comes with two, so this can control two radiators), and then you use the Bosch Smart Home app to control these. You set the required temperature from the app, which then sends commands to the thermostatic knob to turn to either open or close the radiator valve as appropriate.
This works really well, and the app is perhaps the best home control app I’ve seen. It’s a really good idea, and works well. The only downside is that the kit does two radiators, but I guess Bosch then want you to buy more!
I was initially wary of installing this, but actually it was quite straight forward, it took less time that I expected and there was nothing particularly complicated, however you will need access to the correct tools.
The regulator units are quite bulky, and not particularly attractive, but how often to you look at the base of a radiator. That there are only two of them is annoying, particularly when you look at the price for this setup, so you have to make sure you choose the two radiators well – the obvious choice would be those near windows that you open a lot, so you can reap the benefits of the window sensors.
The base unit is nice, and works with my Hue lights as well as this new setup. The benefits of having a Bosch base unit would start to become more and more apparent as you get further into their eco-system – joining all the separate products together, but for the moment I haven’t seen how effective it is at doing this, aside from my lights, and I will continue to use the Hue app as it has more features.
The app itself is alright, it has it’s quirks (as all smart home apps seem to have) but it does the job, and setup was again easier than I thought it might be.
It’s a good idea, one of the biggest costs for maintaining a house can be heating, so anything that can help reduce these costs by even 5% would be worth it. The window sensors are a really nice addition to the base set, I would have expected them to be a separate add-on, and these are key to the kit working successfully.
The high price may put some people off, but if you get one now the money you start saving could really make it worth it. If you are already using Bosch smart appliances this would be a good addition.