Climote alternative

eamondunphy

Hi All

Parents have climote in their house but it has stopped working and seems like they are going out of business, have gone into liquidation

They don't have WiFi in the house so climote worked great for them, was able to turn on heating through a text message, it's got GSM sim car built in

Does anyone know of any alternatives??

they don't want to get wifi so things like nest and tado won't work for them

Wearb

You might be jumping the gun a bit here. There's every hope of this service continuing in some form.

eamondunphy

Thanks for the reply.

Climote have said that the current sim with Vodafone is finished and that they'd need a new climote device costing 300/400e with a new sim.

Don't want to buy a new box due to the uncertainty of the company, can't get through to them on the phone to see why a new sim won't work on the current device

Foxymona

My app has stopped working but can still use the hub to set the heating. I'm furious as boosting the heat from the app was amazing! Now I can't find what to replace it with as it's zoned heating. If anyone has figured that out let me know!

Sleeper12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121355815#Comment_121355815

EPH Ember has a boost function on the control itself and on the app. I have three zones and it can control them independently.

The only thing EPH Ember doesn't have is a built in sim. A built in sim is seen as an old fashioned approach with almost every home having wifi. Nothing wrong with using a sim but I can't imagine other companies using one.

As said in other posts Climotes future isn't cast in stone yet. Being an Irish company I'd love to see it survive

FledNanders

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121355815#Comment_121355815

My app stopped working recently too and I contacted them by phone and they sorted it. It was some technical issue on their end

I have a 3 zone Climote hub; bed/living/water. Does anyone happen to know if I boost bed/living does that heat the water also, or does that need to be boosted separately?

Thanks

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121363351#Comment_121363351

In general, no - the whole point of the separate zones is to allow you to only heat water when you need water, and not be paying to heat water all the time.

JMcL

Mine is still working at the moment, but having seen this and checked, it will stop working in 2 years time by the looks of it. They've been all over the place with ads about the 3G network shutting down, but it's only dawned on me that the 2G network is going away as well which is going to have all sorts of effects on all sorts of stuff to the extent I had it in my head it was ringfenced. "Stuff" includes an awful lot of internet of things gear that doesn't need high bandwidth stopping working - Climote I guess being one of them.

According to https://iotsolutions.ie/2023/09/28/2g_shutdown_ireland/ it'll be switched off at the end of 2025, but they might be doing it on a phased basis, which is affecting the OPs parents.

It'd be worth getting on to them as I've always found their app and dashboard - shall we charitably say - "quirky" (I've never been able to sucessfully get my wife access to it). You might at least get 2 years leeway to figure out a solution.

Only off the shelf alternatives I can think off are the ones you mention. Beyond that my next stop would be DIY solutions using Zigbee and the like, but if they don't want WiFi, they're not certainly not going to go down that route!