PIXERA hub is a powerful tool that allows you to easily network and navigate a Multiclient setup, keep track of your version installs, manage and customize your server settings, and monitor performance. You can download the latest version of Hub here. If using a Multiclient setup, you will see your other machines in the left-hand column.

Dashboard 

The Dashboard tab is where you can monitor your server's GPU, CPU, and RAM. Here you can also see your current PIXERA version, storage drives, and networks. To see this menu, you must have “Enable Performance Monitoring” checked in the Manage tab. 

You can use Hub to directly edit your Network settings by pressing the pencil button to the right of each connection:

In the Network and Drives sections, you will see a button in the top right named "Show." Here you can customize the information you see:

Installs

The Installs tab is divided into three groups. "Installed" shows all versions that have been installed and are ready to use. You can set your default version that you would like PIXERA to open to upon startup

1. You can update your license code files directly from your inserted dongle with the click of a button.
2. You can set PIXERA and Presence proxies to AutoStart.
3. Keep in mind PIXERA will always open to the version selected, so if you install a new version you must change your AutoStart settings. 

Under "Installer," you will see listed the installers you have available on your computer. These live in the “ProgramData\AV Stumpfl\hub\installer\PIXERA” folder. Click on the settings wheel to the right, and you can install your desired version and distribute it to your clients.

If you do not see your installers here, double check that your file path is set correctly in the Manage tab, under Path:

The "Online" section is where you can find other Installs available, if you are connected to the internet. 

PIXERA Intermediate Versions

With each release we aim to provide you with a version of PIXERA that is both feature-rich as well as well as highly reliable.

But development work on PIXERA is always ongoing. This leads to a series of intermediate versions that contain bug fixes and feature improvements. In the past, even if an intermediate version had a fix for an issue relevant to a particular project, there was no direct way to access the fix.

To remedy this we are introducing the intermediate version feature to PIXERA hub. It lets you download the newest intermediate version and use it as an alternative to the current release. Since these builds are not as fully tested as the release please do take extra care when preparing your project. Because they generally contain only incremental changes, they tend to be comparable in terms of reliability, but we recommend that you check your concrete use cases for behavior that diverges from the release.

We hope that, by giving users more options to choose the best version of PIXERA in every situation, we can help more projects succeed even as PIXERA continually evolves!

Manage

Under this tab you will find a multitude of options for customizing your server settings to best suit your project.

The General section applies to Hub: here you can choose to start Hub as an administrator, and enable the Performance Monitoring that you can see in the Dashboard tab.

In the Paths section you will set your file paths for your installer locations, which are in the “ProgramData” folder. Once a PIXERA version has been installed, you can find/access it in the “ProgramFiles” folder. If you ever have trouble seeing your installers or versions in Hub, double check that your file paths are correct here:

Here you can set your Startup preferences:

You can check for version updates, and switch between Stable and Beta versions here:

In the Discovery section you can set which connections Hub will search for other PIXERA machines on. The default setting is "All," but you can disable this and check/uncheck specific connections. Remember, you can edit your Networks in the Dashboard tab.

Tools

Here you can enable VNC and other useful features like the Hotkey Agent, the Fan Control Agent, the Alignment Tool, making display backgrounds all black, and enabling an Overlay of data.

Hotkey Agent

The Hotkey Agent enables PIXERA/Windows specific keyboard shortcuts:

Fan Control

Fan Control lets you set your fan speed to either Factory, Silent, Maximum, or Custom. This menu shows up at the bottom of your Manage tab whenever you enable it, this only works with PIXERA hardware:

Alignment Tool

The Alignment Tool creates a test pattern on your displays that is full customizable:

Overlay

The Overlay shows up on the top right of your screen and provides the name of your computer, your IP address, display number and resolution, and the PIXERA version you are using. 

AutoStart

The AutoStart section is where you can find all your AutoStart preferences. You can edit their settings by clicking the pencil button on the right-hand side, or remove them with the trash icon. You can manually add AutoStart commands with the plus button.

Read more about the AutoStart here: AutoStart PIXERA, Presence

Services

The Services section refers to your Windows settings. We recommend having Windows Update disabled, as a change in Windows version also requires a license code change. For this you would need to contact a representative at PIXERA.

Network

The Network section allows you to see all current Interfaces on this server. You can modify these networks from here as well as choose what Drives on the system are Shared for outside access.

Diagnostics

The Diagnostic section allows you to install and use VNC for remoting into connected servers. It also allows you select from a list of Logs that can be bundled for sending to a Support Ticket, allowing quicker resolutions of bugs that may be found in the software.

License

The License section will display all the licenses found on the system in the “check” folder. It will display its serial number, status, and allow deleting and updating of the license in this section.

PIXERA 2.0.239 | 02. April 2025 | CL