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Set up Qaem Hub

Install Qaem Hub, add the modules your widgets use and allow the widgets that ask. Old helpers are replaced for you.

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Qaem Hub is the companion app for Qaem products: it connects your widgets to your PC and apps, from the tray. You'll install it, add a module for each widget you use, and allow the widgets that ask. There's no account, and nothing to change in iCUE.

Before you start

Install

Download Qaem Hub

Download Qaem Hub Setup.exe, or find it on the Downloads page.

Run the installer

Double-click Qaem Hub Setup.exe. It installs Qaem Hub for your Windows account, with no admin prompt. Click Open Qaem Hub when it's done. From then on Qaem Hub starts with Windows and waits in the tray.

Run the installer again at any time to update Qaem Hub, repair it, or open the one you have.

Check what it replaced

If the standalone helpers for Deckord, Launchify, Twitchify Watch Sync or Browser Media Controls are installed, Qaem Hub replaces them the first time it starts. It uninstalls each old helper and runs the same helper as a module, on the same port, so your sign-ins and settings stay and nothing needs re-importing in iCUE. A notice in Library lists what it replaced.

Add modules

  1. Open Add modules and select the modules your widgets use.
  2. Click Install selected. They show in Library, each with a switch to turn it off and on.
  3. Click a module to open its details. Its Set up … guide takes you through the widget's side, one step at a time.

A widget that's waiting for its helper can take you there too: tap its Start or Launch button, and Qaem Hub opens Add modules with that module already picked.

Is Qaem Hub safe?

Yes. The warning is about the installer's signature, not about anything in it:

  • Why Windows warns. Code signing needs a paid certificate, and until an installer has one (and enough people have run it), Microsoft Defender SmartScreen doesn't recognise it. So it says Windows protected your PC and lists the publisher as Unknown publisher. Some antivirus apps flag unsigned installers for the same reason.
  • Where to get it. Only download Qaem Hub from qaemdev.com: the Downloads page or the link above. A copy from anywhere else isn't ours.
  • What it does on your PC. It installs for your Windows account without an admin prompt, needs no account, and only iCUE, EdgeOS and Qaem Hub itself can talk to its modules, never a web page. What it sends to qaemdev.com is in the privacy policy.
  • What's next. Qaem Hub is going through Microsoft Store publishing, so it will soon come code-signed and certified through the Microsoft Store.

Allow a widget

Some modules hold a secret, such as your OBS password. The first time a widget asks to use one, Qaem Hub shows the widget's name and a 4-digit code, and the widget shows its code too.

  1. Check that the two codes match.
  2. Click Allow. If you didn't just add that widget, click Deny.

You do this once per widget: copies of the same widget share the approval. To make every widget ask again, open the module's details and click Reset under Widgets.

If a widget can't reach Qaem Hub

  • Qaem Hub isn't running. Open it from the tray or the Start menu, or tap Start Qaem Hub on the widget if it offers one.
  • The module isn't on. Add it in Add modules, or switch it on in Library.
  • iCUE 5.51 or newer. If iCUE asks, allow 127.0.0.1 in iCUE under Settings → Widget Access.

Updates

Qaem Hub updates itself, and each module can also update on its own: only that module restarts, while the rest keep running. With Install updates automatically on in Settings, which is the default, a new version installs while your PC is idle. If a widget still says it's waiting afterwards, restart iCUE once. With it off, the update waits for Restart to update or the next time Qaem Hub starts.

News and privacy

Now and then Qaem Hub shows news from QaemDev as a Windows notification and a card in its window: new widgets, updates worth knowing, the odd offer. Switch News and offers from QaemDev off in Settings if you'd rather not see them; important notices still show.

Qaem Hub needs no account. To count active installs it sends a random install ID, its version and which modules are on; qaemdev.com never keeps your IP address. See the Qaem Hub privacy policy.

Uninstall

To remove one module, open its details and click Remove module.

To remove Qaem Hub, open Settings in Qaem Hub and click Uninstall, or go to Settings → Apps → Qaem Hub in Windows. Every module stops and is removed, and the widgets that use them stop working until you install Qaem Hub again. The old standalone helpers aren't put back. Your settings stay on this PC.