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 ...