Shared AYON launcher and addons

[J224]

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]

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]

@Yul

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

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

@Yul

I already asked the same question on this forum.

Here it’s

Shared local installation of the Launcher, without killing shims

TLDR : please explain how to install the Ayon Launcher for all users on a Windows computer (for current and future users). I have a solution before Shims, but since Shims I don’t. I need to install the Ayon Launcher, in a way to do it only once on a Windows computer, even if there will be 15 different users using it in the future. For that, while installing the Ayon Launcher, I switch ON the “Install for all users” option, so the software files are written here : C:\Program Files\Ynput\AYON 1.…

[iLLiCiT]

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]

@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]

@Yul

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

The difference between AYON_LAUNCHER_STORAGE_DIR and AYON_LAUNCHER_LOCAL_DIR

• AYON_LAUNCHER_STORAGE_DIR: reference.
  Storage directory is used for storing shims, addons, dependencies, etc.
  The location can be shared across multiple machines. But, It is not recommended.
• AYON_LAUNCHER_LOCAL_DIR: reference.
  Local directory is used for storing machine or user specific data.
  The location is user specific.
  Highly recommended not to share the location across multiple machines.

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

[iLLiCiT]

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]

thank you everybody for your replies

[mustafa_jafar]

Forgot to mention this guide.

Use shared location for AYON launcher and addons

TL;DR You can use a shared location for all render nodes by using a bat/sh file that sets AYON_LAUNCHER_STORAGE_DIR to a that shared location. [image] More information: See Launcher Environment variables. Use Case: To use shared location for all render nodes. The following guide was brought from Render node pull Ayon launcher from network | Discord Many many thanks to @sjt for sharing us his setup. Layout /network/path/ayon |- addons | |- ftrack_0.2…