The concept of the Cortexa is great, if only it would do what its supposed to do. Unfortunatly, this is not always the case, the unit seems to work only part of the time. This sort of unreliability is a huge burden on the shoulders of what would have otherwise been a great device. Im very reluctant to continue attempting to setup my controller, its starting to really get on my nerves because sometimes it works which indicates that I know what I am doing, and then it will just stop working and ignore all commands?? I wish it worked because I love the interface, but the amount of time you spend pulling your hair out and trying to get it to do what is supposed to do is so annoying that I prefer to stick with a more basic look and feel and get 100% reliability. I hope the Cortexa guys can improve the system in the future, its a real shame that its all looks and there is very little under the hood.

Great Device. Easy to install.

Fantastic Unit. Setup was very easy. You do have to keep in mind that you'll need an Insteon PLM or Z-Wave I used a Z-Stick to make this work with your Insteon or Z-Wave devices. I am also interfacing with my security system. I had one small issue that I needed support for and they responded quickly and followed up to make sure all was well. Clean interface and easy enough for my non techy wife to setup and use.

I found the software very easy to figure out. Not much of a learning curve needed. I have used the ISY in the past and this blows it away on ease of initial setup and controlling the devices. I was shocked at how easily it was able to give me access to the system from anywhere. I didn't even have to configure anything on my firewall. I give it an A+ for setup!

Because it was available as an introductory price, I bought the unit and it arrived quicker than I thought. This unit is massive solid metal, but gets pretty warm almost hot when running for a while. It seems to be a custom PC with probably some version of Linux running on it. Serial PLM doesn't easily connect because of different plugs, but the USB PLM or the Wireless PLM are detected automatically. The unit comes with a few pieces of paper, but no actual manual. The website offers the same paper as PDF, but not much more. Nothing is really available - it is mostly outdated information for older devices. Setup and connecting to the unit via web browser is simple. The UI is - compared to an ISY99 - just beautiful. Wife-compatible as I would call it :- That's what I was looking for. However: the worst part is that the unit is not really designed with Insteon in mind! The setup is horrible! Going many submenus down through a driver section, selecting the Insteon driver, etc. just to add one device. Wow! It is supposed to scan you PLM for devices, but only found a few ISY99 finds all, same HouseLinc. Most manually entered addresses were not accepted as Illegal, despite being correct. A few later I tried again and another software update was available. This fixed the address entry issue there are no release notes available. Did they not test it in the first place? 3 hex-addresses with a . between them is not that hard to detect... However: adding every single device without the chance to name it in place is a nightmare, some device can't even be added via the address, they have to be learned every other software, hardware I've tried can do this!. Because I already spend too much time with this, I stopped trying at this point and stay with the ISY99 for now which looks ugly, but their community is very active and the software is well maintained - that stuff just works. In the future i'll check for more software updates and their website every now and then for new information and hope for the best. But till then I won't use it.