For convenience and a passion for technology, I bought the Eheim Interface. At first it went to install the software (Eheim Control Center). Unfortunately, the program does not run stably on Win7 64bit, I have tried it on 2 laptops, either can not open or until it crashes the program. Frustration is as inevitable Also Brian. Whether it is now up to me or to the PC or program I can not say, anyway, I've never had such a problem and large done something wrong, I do not have too. In XP, the program runs in any case, thank goodness. The setting options are as described: Stream, 12h Bio, Constant Flow, manual mode. In addition, the target and actual flow rate as well as the voraussichtl. next filter cleaning display. All set and control is quite simple and fast. That was it but also already. More the program / interface can not offer. I have something more functions / settings wished, for example, the temperature in the thermal filters. Overall, the interface is an interesting, though not absolutely necessary "toys". It makes monitoring and setting if you have installed it as successful and it works smoothly. I give 3 stars because the price is much too high for MMN what is offered and the whole interface / software was not reibunglos to install. In addition, it is not possible to monitor the temperature and adjust wesahlb one nevertheless again have to crawl under the aquarium.