Hello, we have disable “Automatic Updates” on Rhino 8 by disabling the McNeel Update Service in Windows Services. Now we would like to automate for the application to check for update, without having the user go to the help section
. Is there any command in powershell we could issue to check for updates, without going into the help section? Or any other method?
Please advise
You can call Yak as follows to search for all available plugin versions.
The current Plugin version will be in registry.
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\System\Yak.exe" search --source https://yak.rhino3d.com --all --prerelease <pluginname>
It’s also possible to call Yak to undertake the update i beleive.
Why did you disable the McNeel automatic update if you want automatic updates? I think we’re missing some context for why you want this 
We had to disable automatic updates because it was bugging down our servers when all our computers was trying to connect at the same time at the server. This was the solution Mcneel Support suggested to avoid this issue happening. Now we need, to automate the machine checking for automatic update
Can you tell me more about how the built-in update system bugged down your servers?
There isn’t a powershell script to do the update system.
We’ve been encountering an error message when opening Rhino. We were advised that to stop this message from appearing, we would need to disable automatic updates. While disabling automatic updates does resolve the issue, we’re now facing challenges in keeping the application updated.
We need to understand why this issue is occurring and how to resolve it without disabling automatic updates in Rhino. Alternatively, we would like to explore options for automating the update process.
