Usability Changes

[Systemshark]

Can we get some usability Changes.

1. On Update at the start of the process, can we gray out the button to show its underway?
2. I think the cancel button doesn't work. PSUpdate Should force a rollback to the last working state?
3. When the process is compelete:-
   The Cancel Button should change to Exit
   The Update Button should be hidden
4. Can we get an option to force a reboot from the menu too? I notice that the last two PMS installs have required a full reboot.

Thanks Richard

[TechieGuy12]

Thanks, I will make some changes. One thing to note is that cancelling the install at this point cannot be done, unless I change the way in which I run the installs. For now, I will include an Exit button, but disable the Cancel button.

I will look at including the ability to reboot. I'm not sure if my server has required a reboot because I have mine silently update without being logged in.

[Hossy]

Just a quick note here, I'm so glad I came across this issue because when I ran it interactively last night, I couldn't understand why the Upgrade button was disabled. My thought was that I had to sit there and watch it to check until the stream finished and then I would be offered the option to click the Upgrade button.

I think there needs to be come UI change that would indicate to the user that the upgrade will proceed automatically. I'm all for it jumping into the auto update at launch, but there needs to be some UI indication that this is the behavior and that unchecking the checkbox for the timer will stop that process.

[Mahmoud87]

Really it's such a great tool, however I have a weird issue, I get notified with the update, and I leave it till install by itself but afterwards it crashes PMS and when I try to access the server I get 404 page not found. I have to restart PMS service and everything is fine. Is there a setting I can change? Or this is by design and I have restart PMS service after each update. Cheers

[TechieGuy12]

@Mahmoud87 that is interesting. What Plex service are you using to run Plex?

[Mahmoud87]

I use AlwaysUp to run PMS as a service. The problem is that the service doesn't stop it shows running but something wrong and the only way to fix it to restart the service. I could have wrote one liner PS script to start the service once it stopped but the problem that it doesn't actually give any indication that it has failed until I browse to Plex and I can access my libraries.

Cheers

[TechieGuy12]

@Mahmoud87, that would be the reason the service isn't stopped and restarted. Right now, PlexServerAutoUpdater only works with this service: https://github.com/cjmurph/PmsService. I am looking at redoing the application to allow any service that starts Plex to be used.

[Mahmoud87]

@TechieGuy12 that's cool man as long it's by design. I will stay tuned till you get it working with other services, but thanks again it's really cool app. I will either keep restarting it manually or I will use the service you have mentioned in your comment.