[feature request] Autoupdate plugins

[teaalltr]

Use Cases

To avoid being bothered by plugin update notifications

Proposal

Allow auto-update the plugin, i.e. update them in background

References

No response

[wuniversales]

There is already an option to auto-update the plugins....

[Zvonimir-FUTO]

as @wuniversales mentioned you can enable Automatic Update in each plugin settings.

[teaalltr]

Can it be enabled for all plugins at the same time, with a single option?

[ThunderHen]

I don't think so. Maybe there's a way this could be added. I would imagine as more plugins are supported, it might be annoying to have to manually enable or disable auto updates for all the plugins you have installed.

[Zvonimir-FUTO]

Let's reopen it and leave it as feature request for adding a toggle for turning auto-update for all plugins at once.

[VoxelPrismatic]

Also please stop checking updates for disabled plugins. The plugin is disabled, don't check it. Update on enable.

[xephos1one]

Also please stop checking updates for disabled plugins. The plugin is disabled, don't check it. Update on enable.

Someone created an issue for that: #1689

[wapsi]

This feature would be really good.

I don't use Grayjay daily basis, maybe a couple of times a week, but almost every time I open the app, there are plugin updates available that I download and install immediately. But it's still quite annoying when it comes to the user experience. (And yes, I'm aware that it's really good that the plugins are getting updates very often because it keeps them working, even when YouTube changes something at their end, etc.).

It would be better if Grayjay would perform those updates in the background, and maybe it could just show some info bubble that "YouTube plugin has been updated". And there could be the same kind of setting that the app's background updates has: to enable or disable that feature.

BTW. It would be even better if Grayjay would restart/reconnect the stream/video the user is currently watching immediately if the related plugin has been updated. Now if YouTube has changed something, the video won't open and I update the plugin -> I have to stop the video (and restart the app?), and start the video again once the plugin update is installed.