Install a Browser Certificate

A certificate is required to support a secure (encrypted) connection between your PC and Motorcortex.

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Motorcortex applications are using Transport Layer Security (TLS) for end-to-end encryption of the communication channel between the server application and its clients. To be able to connect to your Motorcortex application you need to use a special certificate signed by Vectioneer.

Download a standard Motorcortex Encryption Certificate by clicking the download button below. The download should start automatically and should appear in your downloads folder.

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After downloading the certificate it has to be installed. Installing this certificate is different for every Operating system. Please select the OS that you are using:


On Ubuntu browser certificates have to be installed on every separate browser. please select the browser that you will be using.

Select your browser:


The following steps show how to install the Motorcortex Encryption Certificate for Google Chrome.

  1. Open vertical menu on top right corner of your browser.

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  2. Open Settings menu.

  3. In the Settings go to the Privacy and Security.

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  4. Select Security

  5. Go to Manage certificates.

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  6. Go to the Authorities tab.

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  7. Click on the Import button.

  8. Select the mcx.cert.crt that you have downloaded by pressing the download button in the top of this page.

  9. Next you will receive a pop-up check Trust this certificate for identifying websites

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  10. press OK.

Testing the Certificate

Open your browser and type in your controller IP: 192.168.2.100.

Correct Certificate

Your Certificate is correct after you get the Motorcortex screen.

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Congratulations you have installed your Motorcortex Certificate.

Incorrect Certificate

Your Certificate is incorrect after you get the following screen with the message NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID.

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You did something wrong while importing the certificate to you browser, check if the Certificate is added to the list of Authorities:

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If you are unable to find the org-Vectioneer Certificate Authority, Motorcortex Root CA, please perform the step Install a Browser Certificate again.


The following steps show how to install the Motorcortex Encryption Certificate for Mozilla Firefox.

  1. Open vertical menu on top right corner of your browser.

  2. Open Settings menu.

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  3. In the Settings go to the Privacy and Security

  4. Scroll down to the Security section. now click View Certificates....

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  5. In the Certificate Manager pop-up go to the Authorities

  6. Click on the Import... button.

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  7. Browse to and open the mcx.cert.crt that you have downloaded.

  8. Next you will receive a Downloading Certificate pop-up check Trust this CA to identify websites

  9. Press OK.

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Testing the Certificate

Open your browser and type in your controller IP: 192.168.2.100.

Correct Certificate

Your Certificate is correct after you get the Motorcortex screen.

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Congratulations you have installed your Motorcortex Certificate.

Incorrect Certificate

Your Certificate is incorrect after you get the following screen with the message NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID.

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You did something wrong while importing the certificate to you browser, check if the Certificate is added to the list of Authorities:

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If you are unable to find the org-Vectioneer Certificate Authority, Motorcortex Root CA, please perform the step Install a Browser Certificate again.


  1. To do that double click on the downloaded vectioneer-ca.crt file and Open the file.

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  2. In the Certificate pop-up click Install Certificate.

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  3. The Certificate Import Wizard will pop-up, select the store location (per default Current User) where you want to install the certificate. either and click Next.

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  4. Now the certificate store has to be selected. select Place all certificates in the following store.

  5. Click Browse.

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  6. In the Select Certificate Store choose Trusted Root Certification Authorities

  7. Click OK.

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  8. The Trusted Root Certification Authorities will show in the Certificate store: bar. Click Next.

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  9. Completing the certificate import wizard click Finish.

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  10. Because a certificate will be installed to the Trusted root certification Authorities a warning will pop up. click Yes.

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  11. The import was successful will show, click OK.

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  12. Make sure to Reboot Windows for the changes to take effect.

Testing the Certificate

Open your browser and type in your controller IP: 192.168.2.100.

Correct Certificate

Your Certificate is correct after you get the Motorcortex screen.

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Congratulations you have installed your Motorcortex Certificate.

Incorrect Certificate

Your Certificate is incorrect after you get the following screen with the message NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID.

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You did something wrong while importing the certificate to you browser, check if the Certificate is added to the list of Authorities:


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The next step is to Deploy a app to your controller using motorcortex.io. Deploy App