Foxhound is a desktop assistant for engineers working with the Tridium Niagara Framework. It speeds up point exploration, integration checks, graphics review, and report generation — the kind of work that normally means flipping between Workbench, spreadsheets, and a Word document.

Niagara integrators, controls technicians, commissioning agents, and BAS designers who deliver projects on the Niagara platform and need faster ways to audit stations and produce documentation.

No. Foxhound is an independent third-party tool built by Robert Hansen. It complements Niagara Workbench but is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tridium.

No. Workbench is still your engineering tool. Foxhound sits alongside it — load a CSV export or connect live, then run the checks and reports that would be tedious to do by hand.

• Windows 10 (64-bit, version 1809 or later) or Windows 11
• macOS 12 (Monterey) or later, on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)

No. Foxhound ships an Apple Silicon build only.

Not at this time.

4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB recommended), 500 MB of free disk space, and a 1280×768 or larger display. Installed footprint is roughly 150–200 MB.

Only for license activation and periodic revalidation. Once activated, Foxhound works offline.

$1,500 per year for a single-user, single-machine subscription. The license includes all product updates and email support while active.

Each license activates on one computer at a time. On first launch you enter your key; Foxhound generates a hardware fingerprint and binds the license to that machine.

No. A license is one active seat. If you need a second seat, you need a second license.

On the old machine, open Help → License Information and click Deactivate License. That frees the seat. Enter the same key on the new machine to reactivate.

Email [email protected] with your purchase email or license key and we’ll release the seat manually.

It does occasional background revalidations and a mandatory online check every 30 offline days.

Two paths: upload a CSV exported from Niagara Workbench, or connect live to a station’s web service over your network.

The standard Workbench CSV export. Foxhound expects the column layout produced by the default export — custom exports may not parse correctly.

Click Live Connection in the sidebar and enter the station URL, e.g. https://192.168.1.100. You need to be on the same network as the station, and the station’s web service has to be running.

• Verify the URL is correct and the station is reachable from your machine
• Try the IP address instead of a hostname
• Confirm the station’s web service is enabled
• Check firewalls and VPN routing

Stations with 10,000+ points work, though large exports may take a few seconds to load. Performance depends on your machine and how many extensions are present.

It’s a Foxhound project file — a single document that holds your loaded station data, notes, report configuration, and any work in progress for a given site.

Wherever you save them. There’s no central project library — you choose the location when you create a new project.

Yes. Projects auto-save every 2 minutes when changes are detected. You can also save manually with Ctrl+S or via the fox logo menu.

Yes. .fhproject files are self-contained — send the file and your teammate can open it in their own licensed copy of Foxhound.

Check the project folder for a recent auto-save copy. As a last resort, open the file in a text editor to see if data can be salvaged. If you’re stuck, contact support with the file attached.

Navigate the full station tree, search and filter points, detect equipment templates automatically, and run a side-by-side comparison of two stations or exports.

• Point name typo and naming-pattern checks
• Facet validation
• History extension review
• Alarm extension review
• Graphics binding review

It parses PX files, shows which graphics belong to which templates, and flags missing or broken bindings.

Site reports, equipment reports, and automated health checks. Reports are configurable — pick the sections you want (templates, equipment lists, history extensions, alarm extensions, health results), add notes and photos, and generate.

Points in fault, active alarms, points with overrides, and sensor outliers — the things you’d normally hunt for one tab at a time.

Yes. Reports export to HTML, can be printed to PDF from there, and commissioning data can be exported to XLSX with CxA-formatted columns.

Locally, on your machine, inside the .fhproject file. Nothing about your stations leaves your computer.

No. The only outbound network calls Foxhound makes are to the licensing API at qagraphics.com — for activation, validation, and deactivation. Station data, point lists, graphics, and reports stay on your machine.

Gatekeeper sometimes flags builds during the early signing/notarization rollout. Right-click the app and choose Open, or approve it under System Settings → Privacy & Security. After that first approval, macOS won’t prompt again.

SmartScreen warns about apps until enough installs build reputation. Click More info → Run anyway. Reinstalling from the official purchase-page link ensures you have the genuine installer.

Try right-clicking the shortcut and choosing Run as Administrator. Confirm Windows Defender or your AV isn’t quarantining the app. If it still won’t open, reinstall using the link on your purchase page.

On first launch, right-click the app and choose Open to bypass Gatekeeper, or approve it in System Settings → Privacy & Security. If the app is genuinely broken, reinstall from your purchase page.

Delete the user-data folder and relaunch:

• Windows: %APPDATA%foxhound
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/foxhound

You’ll need to re-enter your license key after wiping.

Updates download silently in the background and install on the next restart — no reinstall, no re-entering your license key. As long as your subscription is active, you’ll always be on the latest build.

Update checks run on launch and require internet. If the check is blocked by a firewall or proxy, allow outbound HTTPS to GitHub. If you’ve been offline for a while, just relaunch with internet connected.

Your license is bound to one machine. Deactivate from the original computer (Help → License Information → Deactivate License), then activate on the new one. If the old machine is unavailable, email support and we’ll free the seat.

Confirm the data actually loaded (CSV or live), check that filters aren’t hiding rows, and verify the source export contains the data you expect. Re-exporting fresh from Workbench resolves most missing-data issues.