Website updated ...

[chris_j_hunter]

http://www.idratek.com/

[Paul_B]

Looks very nice, the old one was looking a little dated. This new version is very slick.

BTW have a look in the download section for Cortex release notes

[chris_j_hunter]

yep, quite nice ... not all there yet, though - some 404 errors and new modules not yet listed - looking forward to seeing the datasheets ! Price-hike on Cortex, too ...

the V25 update looks heaven-sent for us, with its various additions ...

it's looking like we'll be using multiple thermal stores taking & shifting heat around as required them - not sure how we'll be handling that ...

some mysteries - the new BRS's buttons & light + motion sensors seem odd bedfellows ...

wonder what the AUI's dedicated video cable will be - Cat-5e hopefully, 'though it's not quite too late for us to add something else, CT100 or whatever ...

wonder which sensors would be recommended to go with Alarm Pro - smoke & gas sensors, of the various sorts ?

wonder, too. if the new Alarm Pro feature makes our plan to install a Zeta FyrEye system obsolete - my gut feeling is that for fire a separate system might still be best - using as it does fire-resistant cable & a dedicated control box that might be less likely to crash ... (?)

[Paul_B]

I'll guess we'll have to wait for an official announcement from Karam. I must admit I was a little disappointed regarding the release notesfor v25. v24 has been out for almost 2 years and I was hoping for asignificant overhaul so Cortex would run as a service and the GUI / Interface / Web Access would get some updating. But I guess we'll have to wait and see

[Gumby]

Perhaps we should start a new thread on Cortex 25 (and maybe a Cortex 26 wishlist)?

[chris_j_hunter]

talking with a guy yesterday, who said he had a fair bit of HA in his house & finds it pretty good - C-Bus this time, having had Lutron in his previous house and not been all that happy with it - he said it was great maybe 95% of the time, but every now & then took too-long to respond and/or caused his wife to complain ... so, wondered what the ratio would be with Idratek ?

Our Apple Mac set-up is pretty good, but I guess 95% would be the appropriate figure, too ... gut-feel, again, of-course, maybe we should keep a log !

In the aircraft world, IIRC, one in 10^6 (so 99.9999%) is common for systems, 10^9 for critical ones (99.9999999%) ... with carefully worked-out fall-back strategies ...

[qbatqbat]

I really don't like the idea of this page:

http://www.idratek.com/products/cata...tegory/onsale/

It'll be far too hard to resist buying more modules.

[JonS]

Very impressed by the new site; its look and feel, structure and content. Well done guys!
I haven't looked at every page but if I were to quibble I like the "imagination is the only limit" tag line but then noted that its not consistently used across the site (right hand side of the grey title bar). Maybe it is a context sensitive message aid to navigation/ clarification in that slot?