ABE
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Thanks for helping test ABE early. Here's how to get set up and how to send feedback.

Beta

Things to test.

Before you begin: screenshot your dashboard

I'll be honest: A few weeks ago I had a bug where ABE cleared the widgets off my main Aoex dashboard. That was fixed weeks ago but just in case, I want to have a "backup".

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The install process

This whole manual install thing is beta-only — eventually ABE will just be in the App Store and Chrome Web Store like a normal extension. In the meantime, let us know if anything in the instructions below was unclear or annoying, especially the Safari permissions stuff. That flow has a lot of steps.

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Widgets losing their settings

We've seen dividers and other custom widgets randomly forget their customizations — text, colors, that kind of thing. It doesn't happen all the time but it happens. If it happens to you, send a report and try to include what you were doing right before it. Even small details help.

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Hardware we don't have

We don't have every Neptune module — no Ecotech Versa, Vectra, Sky, or anything like that. If you've got any of those, poke around and see if they show up right in the widget drawer and whether the code debugger makes sense for them. Let us know if anything looks weird.

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Multiple Apex controllers

Got more than one Apex? Try switching between them and see if anything bleeds over that shouldn't — dashboard layouts, widget settings, whatever. Each controller should feel totally separate. If something from one shows up on another, that's a bug we want to know about.

Installation

Get it running.

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Download the extension

  1. Download the extension ZIP and unzip it — double-click on Mac, or right-click → Extract All on Windows
  2. Move the resulting apex-debugger folder somewhere you won't accidentally delete it (e.g. Documents)
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Load it into Chrome

  1. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions
  2. Turn on Developer mode in the top-right corner
  3. Click Load unpacked and select the apex-debugger folder
Chrome extensions page showing Developer mode and Load unpacked

The extension will appear in the list — click Enable if it isn't already active.

Chrome extensions page showing ABE enabled

Updating

  1. Download the latest ZIP and unzip it
  2. Replace the files in your existing apex-debugger folder with the new ones
  3. Go to chrome://extensions and click the refresh icon on the ABE card
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Install the app

  1. Download ABE and double-click the ZIP to unzip it
  2. Drag ABE.app to your Applications folder
  3. Double-click the app once to launch it — this registers the extension with Safari
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Enable the extension and grant permissions

  1. Open Safari → Settings (⌘,) → Extensions tab
  2. Find ABE in the sidebar and check the checkbox to enable it
Safari Extensions settings showing ABE enabled

Now click Edit Websites… and grant access to both of your Apex Fusion hosts:

  1. Find apexfusion.com and set it to Allow
  2. Find apex.local (or whatever hostname/IP your controller uses) and set it to Allow
Safari per-site permission settings for ABE

Updating

  1. Download the latest ZIP and double-click to unzip it
  2. Drag the new ABE.app to Applications → click Replace
  3. Double-click the app once to re-register the updated extension with Safari

Feedback

Tell us what's broken.

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Open Quick Nav

Press ⌘K on Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows from anywhere inside Apex Fusion. Type feedback and select the Feedback action.

Quick Nav with feedback typed
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Tell us what happened

Describe the issue — what you were doing, what you expected, what went wrong. Attach a screenshot if it helps. We read everything.

Feedback form