Originally Posted by
biggles1
The Aquaero and the mcubed bigNG are more or less the same thing. They read sensors (temp, flow, etc) and control devices (fans, pumps, lamps, power). The Aquaero is the prettier with external LCD/VFD display (also available as internal if I am not misinformed) and the bigNG is internal. Both have more or less the same capabilities with smaller differences in some areas. bigNG has suffered from a little less development during the last year, but has just released a new alpha version of their new client/server based software. Both are, as far as I can tell (have the bigNG myself, and it sure is) fire and forget, ie you install and configure it, and then let it run without user or computer intervention. The on board processor takes care of the rest. Both have a lot of possibilities to connect extra stuff for controlling more and more power full devices!