Shared AYON launcher and addons

J224 · 8 February 2025 13:52

Hello,

I asked a question on the discord to know if its possible to have the addons at the same location in case multiples peoples work in the same computer? for the moment the addons are copied in each user profile which duplicate them “x” times on the computer.

also I have multiples site-Id is it normal?

I have been suggested to make a thread about it ^^

Best regards

Yul · 10 February 2025 08:34

Hi !

I already asked the same question on this forum.
For an unknown reason, I get a message refusing that I post a link

So you will have to search this sentence :

Shared local installation of the Launcher, without killing shims

mustafa_jafar · 10 February 2025 09:48

Sorry about that. let me just put Milan’s reply here as well.

:). might be an accidental side effect of the attack last week.
We'll restore it asap. it was a temp measure

Here it’s

iLLiCiT · 10 February 2025 10:26

Hi, current situation:
Right now there is environment variable AYON_LAUNCHER_STORAGE_DIR which can be used to change where shim, addons and dependency packages are installed. If you set it as system environment variable then all users on the machine will use that folder.

NOTE: It is not bullet proof, we have enhancements in backlog, but unless you run multiple AYON processes that would will start downloading updates, it is ok.

Yul · 10 February 2025 11:22

@iLLiCiT

Hi,
Are you sure that shim’s location can be changed by AYON_LAUNCHER_STORAGE_DIR ?

The following doc explains it is AYON_LAUNCHER_LOCAL_DIR GitHub - ynput/ayon-launcher: AYON desktop application launcher

mustafa_jafar · 10 February 2025 17:08

The difference between AYON_LAUNCHER_STORAGE_DIR and AYON_LAUNCHER_LOCAL_DIR

github.com/ynput/ayon-core

client/ayon_core/lib/local_settings.py

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          """Get storage directory for launcher.
          
          Storage directory is used for storing shims, addons, dependencies, etc.
          
          It is not recommended, but the location can be shared across
              multiple machines.
          
          Note:
              This function should be called at least once on bootstrap.
          
          Args:
              *subdirs (str): Subdirectories relative to storage dir.
          
          Returns:
              str: Path to storage directory.
          
          """
          storage_dir = os.getenv("AYON_LAUNCHER_STORAGE_DIR")

github.com/ynput/ayon-core

client/ayon_core/lib/local_settings.py

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          """Get local directory for launcher.
          
          Local directory is used for storing machine or user specific data.
          
          The location is user specific.
          
          Note:
              This function should be called at least once on bootstrap.
          
          Args:
              *subdirs (str): Subdirectories relative to local dir.
          
          Returns:
              str: Path to local directory.
          
          """
          storage_dir = os.getenv("AYON_LAUNCHER_LOCAL_DIR")

Site id is relative to AYON_LAUNCHER_LOCAL_DIR and that can be overridden by setting AYON_SITE_ID.

github.com/ynput/ayon-core

client/ayon_core/lib/local_settings.py

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          site_id = os.environ.get("AYON_SITE_ID")
          if site_id:
              return site_id
          
          site_id_path = get_launcher_local_dir("site_id")

iLLiCiT · 10 February 2025 17:18

~~It changed, so it is outdated documentation, will update.~~ Nope, I’m wrong. It’s using AYON_LAUNCHER_LOCAL_DIR, we wanted to change it, but didn’t get to it.

So, it is not possible to share shim now.

J224 · 12 February 2025 13:49

thank you everybody for your replies