Quick start guide - checklist

Everything you need to know before you set up your hyve. Review this first for important setup steps, helpful tips, and key things to consider before assembly, app setup, and activation.

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Assembly Manual

Everything you need to know before you set up your hyve. Review this first for important setup steps, helpful tips, and key things to consider before assembly, app setup, and activation.

Troubleshooting Assembly

Watch our step-by-step video to help troubleshoot common assembly and setup issue.

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Setting up driver access

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How to do returns using Uber Courier

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How to transfer admin

How to secure your hyve using the security tether

Useful videos

Setting up vendor pins - driver access

Schedule a return pick-up

Securing your hyve. Universal Security Tether

Extended range

Put your hyve anywhere your Wi‑Fi reaches

Out of the box, the hyve hub plugs into an indoor outlet and needs to stay close to your hyve. With an optional solar-powered setup, the hub moves outside and mounts right beside your hyve, so you can place it at the end of the driveway, by a gate, or anywhere else your Wi‑Fi covers.

Inside Porch hyve ≤ 10 ft Hub · plugged in indoors hyve · on the porch
Standard setup
Up to 10 ft
between the hub and your hyve
  • The hub plugs into a standard indoor outlet.
  • It talks to your hyve over Bluetooth, so the two need to stay close.
  • Where you can put your hyve depends on where you can plug in the hub.

Solar powers the hub. It doesn't create Wi‑Fi. Before you buy anything, stand where your hyve will go, connect your phone to your 2.4 GHz network and check that a web page loads reliably. If it doesn't, add a mesh node or outdoor extender where it still gets a strong signal from the house, and let it relay toward your hyve.

How it works

Check your Wi‑Fi

Confirm 2.4 GHz Wi‑Fi works at the exact spot where your hyve will live. Add a mesh node or extender if it doesn't.

Build the kit

Set the solar kit to 5V, plug the hub in with the adapter cable from the kit, bench-test it indoors, then place it in the weatherproof box.

Mount and test

Mount the panel in the sun and the box beside your hyve. Trigger a test and make sure the notification arrives.

DIY parts list

Everything you need to build it yourself, all available on Amazon. Listings and specs change, so double-check the details before you order.

  1. 15W solar panel kit with 16,000 mAh battery Required

    Set it to 5V. The kit ships with Micro‑USB, USB‑C and DC adapter cables, so the hub plugs straight in — no separate cable or converter needed.

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  2. IP65 weatherproof junction box Required

    About 5.9 × 5.9 × 3.5 in, ABS, with two cable glands. Check that your hub and the adapter cable fit before you drill or mount it.

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  3. Stainless steel mounting screws Optional

    Only if the hardware in the kit doesn't suit your post, fence or wall.

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This is an optional, customer-developed setup using third-party products. hyve does not make or support the solar kit, enclosure or Wi‑Fi equipment. Follow each manufacturer's instructions and local codes. For permanent outdoor wiring, lightning protection or tricky networking, hire a qualified installer.

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