Smart Thermostats
Comfortable for Guests. Efficient Between Them.
HostHive sets your thermostats to save energy after checkout, brings them back to your welcome setting before the next guest, and keeps guest changes within the limits you set.
How it works
On the property's Smart Devices tab, connect your thermostat account and link each thermostat to the property.
Turn on Save energy between guests, then choose weather-adaptive or manual setpoints.
Set Before each guest to the heat and cool temperatures you want an hour before check-in.
Turn on Protect thermostat during guest stays, then keep the recommended 68-75°F range or enter your own limits.
What you get
- After checkout, with the next guest at least a day away, each thermostat goes to an energy-saving setting.
- A same-day turnover skips energy saving, so the house stays comfortable for the guest arriving that day.
- An hour before check-in, each thermostat still saving energy returns to your welcome setting, not the last guest's.
- Heating above your limit or cooling below it is set back; heat above 85°F or cool below 60°F is fixed at once.
- If someone changes a thermostat during energy saving, their setting stays and HostHive ends energy saving on it.
- Savings are estimated at your electricity rate and shown month to date, with each property's share.
Who it's for
Owners and hosts
You want the house comfortable for each guest without paying to heat or cool an empty one.
Questions hosts ask
Which thermostats does it work with?
Smart thermostats you connect on the property's Smart Devices tab, such as ecobee and Honeywell Resideo. Google Nest can't be connected to new accounts yet. Each setting is fitted to what the thermostat accepts.
What happens if a guest changes the thermostat during their stay?
If they heat above your maximum or cool below your minimum, HostHive sets it back to your limit. Heating lower or cooling higher saves energy, so it is left alone. Corrections inside your limits wait 15 minutes after the last one and stop at 4 a day; admins get an email when a correction goes through.
What if the next guest arrives the same day?
Energy saving only starts when no one is staying and the next guest is at least 24 hours away, so a same-day turnover keeps the house comfortable.
What happens when a thermostat goes offline?
After a thermostat has been offline for an hour, admins get an email, and another when it reconnects. A drop that recovers within the hour sends nothing.
How are the energy savings estimated?
HostHive estimates savings from the temperature change and how long it lasted, using your electricity rate; until you set one it uses the US average of $0.12/kWh. These are estimates based on typical HVAC efficiency, not a utility bill.