Well it just so happens there is another on the way from the same company that makes the NDLR — Conductive Labs. They have the grand daddy of this sort of device called the MRCC. Thread.
As far as the Midihub goes, it’s pretty much a piece of cake to set up and use, at least i find it so. Especially for simple things, it can do some incredible MIDI processing sorts of applications too.
The Midihub is stand alone once you’ve set it up. It is 4 in and 4 out with physical MIDI, plus 4 x 4 USB MIDI to a host only, it can’t be USB MIDI host on its own, it’s only real shortcoming.