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CDS Updates

VR-ARRIVAL

I know this has been brought up before but am not sure whether any answers forthcoming.... For the updates in games that are loaded through the SpringboardVR CDS:

How does this work? Do we get notified of an update and can we prioritise the download order? Is there any change logs or summaries that can be found anywhere? Is there a download progress indicator? What happens if there are people that start playing on a station when an update was being done? Is that particular game unplayable and how do we know?

I will give the example of Zero Calibre. On the Steam Key version it has multiplayer working great but the CDS is still on the old version. The software developers have said that they will update the CDS version when the new update on Steam comes out (which was yesterday). The Steam update was close to 1GB which means that the CDS version update will be quite chunky as well - how do we know when it is coming out and ensure that it can download fully without interfering with the customers?

Chris

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How does this work? [/quote] Once a content creator pushes an update your stations will automatically update the local copy of the content. This only happens while your station is idle, i.e. SteamVR isn't running, or the headset has not moved for the last 5 minutes.

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Do we get notified of an update and can we prioritise the download order? [/quote] This isn't a feature currently.

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Is there any change logs or summaries that can be found anywhere? [/quote] We're currently posting bigger updates in this community as well as through our other communication channels. A changelog based list isn't a feature currently.

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Is there a download progress indicator? [/quote] On your operator panel it will show the progress percentage on both the content as well as your station edit pages.

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What happens if there are people that start playing on a station when an update was being done? Is that particular game unplayable and how do we know? [/quote] While an update is applying to some content we automatically hide it from the user-accessible UI. If the content is running we won't touch it for update purposes.

For the two feature requests I suggest to post them on http://features.springboardvr.com!

holocafe_ac

You can see the updates progressing when you right click the springboard icon and select show logs. They pause automatically when a game is being started. I have found however that they are not starting automatically unless steamVR is closed. Which is rarely the case on a VR machine in an arcade. I think a better option would be to start the downloads once the headset is idle.

VR-ARRIVAL

@HunterLaneSBVR - can you please confirm about the other points?

VR-ARRIVAL

Many thanks for the information @Chris