DCS World Updater Unattend a.k.a. Silent

[OzDeaDMeaT]

Hi,

 

As dedicated Servers are becoming easier to use the updater seems to be in need of some love. I am trying to find out if the dcs_updater.exe has a silent unattended execution method, I have a powershell script executing the "dcs_update.exe update @openbeta" command but when it finds a new version it prompts me to install it.

 

Here is my current work around.

 

update_DCS.ps1

//////////////////////////////

$DCS_BIN = "G:\Games\DCS World\bin"

#Modification of any of the below lines cound produce undesirable effects

#Script by OzDeaDMeaT, work around script until dcs_updater.exe has silent mode

$DCS_Updater = "$DCS_BIN\dcs_updater.exe"

$currentLOC = get-location

$Pwrshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell;

set-location $DCS_BIN

.\DCS_updater.exe update @openbeta

write-host "Waiting 15 Seconds for Check Update Window to complete check"

sleep 15;

write-host "Looking for DCS Updater Window: " -nonewline

$Pwrshell.AppActivate('DCS Updater')

sleep 1;

write-host "Key Press ~"

$Pwrshell.SendKeys('~')

 

$contLoop = $true

$working = 0

while ($contLoop) {

#This grabs the current tick count for the busy process

sleep 30;

$ticks = (get-process | where-Object {$_.Path -eq $DCS_Updater} | select TotalProcessorTime | Sort-Object TotalProcessorTime -Descending)[0].TotalProcessorTime.ticks

if ($ticks -gt $working) {

#Process is still working, update $working tick count

$working = $ticks

write-host "DCS Updater Ticks = $working"

}

else {

write-host "Job Done, total completed ticks: $ticks"

$contLoop = $false

}

}

sleep 5;

write-host "Key Press ~"

$Pwrshell.SendKeys('~')

set-location $currentLOC

//////////////////////////////

 

This script is required to be run in GUI mode as there is no silent way to execute the updater. Can you please address this?

 

Regards,

 

OzDM

[NoDiff]

There was a new release of the Open Beta Modular installer yesterday. I haven't seen an update to the DCS_Updater.exe to enable it to be run silently. Has there been any progress on this?

DCS World 2.8 Open Beta Dedicated Server (modular installer) (digitalcombatsimulator.com)

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by NoDiff

[HC_Official]

the silent option has been in for a couple of years now

DCS_updater.exe --quiet update

Edited April 18, 2023 by HC_Official

[ColinM9991]

28 minutes ago, HC_Official said:

the silent option has been in for a couple of years now

DCS_updater.exe --quiet update

 

In fairness, it wasn't in the DCS Updater thread until I mentioned it back in 2021. https://forum.dcs.world/topic/94816-guide-info-dcs-updater-usage-version-numbers-module-ids/?do=findComment&comment=4683068

Even then, it's mostly you & me that have mentioned the switch on these forums, and there's no --help command that would pop-up a UI to show the available commands.

[NoDiff]

I am trying to get this to run within a docker container. The problem is that, even with the --quiet switch, a progress bar window is presented. It would be preferable if there was also a --verbose option to output to the command-line (or pipe to a text file) instead of requiring the progress bar window.

Edited April 18, 2023 by NoDiff

[c0ff]

17 hours ago, NoDiff said:

I am trying to get this to run within a docker container. The problem is that, even with the --quiet switch, a progress bar window is presented. It would be preferable if there was also a --verbose option to output to the command-line (or pipe to a text file) instead of requiring the progress bar window.

 

That's possible to implement. Noted.

[NoDiff]

Just a follow-up to this, if DCS_Server.exe could be run without having to display the splash-screen window, too (headless), I believe that it would be 100% possible to run it from a docker container image.