roon should allow for scheduled updates, so it would download the update and install at a user specified time (e.g. 3.00 am). roon most of the time requests an update when I want to listen to music.
In addition there should be a reliable restart of roon after the update. More often than not an update is installed but roon is not restarted. Which means database updates etc. cause downtime.
roon can handle this, as shown in scheduled backups.
Most Roon updates take literally a couple of minutes, and you donât have to do it immediately it will continue to remind you until you do.
Why add more complexity that can break?
In my case I shut down overnight anyway
3:00 in which time zone? Your 3AM might be my 3PM. Plus maybe I listen at 3AM. Updates really donât happen very often. Do we really need to change this? I for one donât care what time Roon pushes out an update so I vote NO.
Your local time zone of course, on whatever machine youâre running the Roon Core.
<rant>Personally itâs not something that would be at the top of my feature request list. But there seems to be an awful lot of unhelpful knee-jerk / gatekeeping on feature requests of late. âI wouldnât use itâ, âyou can already do this in some convoluted wayâ, âI donât see why youâd need to do thatâ. Surely if someone has raised it as a feature request itâs a valid requestâŚat least to them? If the request gets traction with others it might get voted on or Roon might decide to act on it because they see it as a useful feature â the majority of their users arenât active on this forum, if not well so be it, no one has lost out. No need to put pour cold water and scorn on every idea the second it gets posted. Itâs not a totally zero sum game, Roon can always hire more developers</rant over>
Iâd image youâd set Roon to update at a given time in the settings if you wanted to enable it, most likely in the middle of the night when you wonât be listening to music and if you havenât already installed an new/awaiting update at that point your Roon Core downloads it, installs it and restarts itself. Itâs hardly a niche feature, itâs how must software products nowadays handle automatic updates.
The one gotcha might be situation where the Core requires the Client to be updated as well to function correctly, but thatâs easily resolved with some kind of âdo not automatically updateâ flag on the release.
Your local time, of course. And your Computer knows your local time.
Fully agree. Client updates take a one or two minutes, so no problem there.
Depends on the size of your library. My system (driven by an Intel xeon cpu with loads of memory) takes 30 to 40 minutes to settle after an update.
Not sure what you mean by complexity. Scheduling a task does not add complexity. Also, the routines to do this are already there in scheduled backups.
If that is the case then why ask for votes? When you open this up to asking for people to vote you canât complain when someone votes no. Sorry.
To allow other users to use one of their limited 5 votes to express an interest in a feature. Thereâs a reason thereâs no corresponding down vote button.
If youâre not interested in a feature or it doesnât appeal to your needs move on, comment or vote on the features you would like to see. Otherwise itâs just pointless gate keeping / noise. As I said it doesnât need to be a zero sum game.
Iâm afraid I donât agree. If thereâs a feature suggestion then I think itâs reasonable for âfor and againstâ arguments to be offered. This helps to inform the casting of votes. Unfortunately, though, your initial post has somewhat derailed the thread. 
Why should your system take so long to stabilise after an update.
The one this week took 2-3 minutes and I was back playing music. What is there to stabilise . Roon installs and restarts.
How big is your library ? AFAIK Roon loads the db to memory so the bigger the longer , mine is approx 130k tracks . I timed ROCK at 2 mins up and running
By complexity I mean anything thatâs not essential that can be a point of failure, I appreciate the scheduling logic is there. If the scheduling had an issue it would be something else to moan about
Just my 2p âŚ
Roon does not load the entire DB into memory, and they have said so. That wouldnât work at all for people with large libraries. My DB, for example, is ~36GB, and Iâm running a machine with 16GB of RAM.
Core updates can easily take 15 minutes when a DB update is required and one has a large library. That pokes a big hole in your listening time.
I wasnât too sure , then what does load mine in windows was around 5gb in memory, I assume it must load a library of links of some description.
Is it not true though that the bigger the library the more is loaded
Personally I have never seen a core update take anything more than few minutes. Maybe I set it going and brew tea , I always do it when I restart in a morning maybe my process is abnormal
If you could set the time of update, it would be your time zone, which seems obvious. I think youâre just being argumentative.
I have turned off all automatic updates. I want to watch while the update happens in case there is a problem of some sort.
I wasnât being argumentative. I was pointing out that just because 3:00AM was convenient for him doesnât mean it was convenient for all.
Mike the time varies from system to system due to different hardware and infrastructure, it might be 2mins for you lucky you itâs not for others why is is it so hard for you to see others views here Roon isnât the same for everyone. Some use networked storage, some local M2, some local SSD, some local HDD, some Local USB SSD, some USB HDD. Not one will perform the same as the other, all the different os used, CPUs and os latencies . Itâs also different each update. Some that have updates to the database performance etc tend to take longer, others donât. When itâs a big change it can take 10 minutes for me or more to just update the database.
To me this is a valid feature request wonât get my vote as I have none left sorry.
Come on now. If you schedule your Windows updates for 3 AM, do I have a choice when I schedule mine? I thought I did.
I prefer to apply the update when I get the update email. I like to watch it happen in case something goes wrong. Having it automated would not be my preference. Thatâs all I have been trying to say. Apparently a few people have taken exception to that as is their right. As it is my right to say what I said. If that offends some people then so be it. A voting message appeared. I voted no to that. The fact that people had a problem with my post will not cause me to lose any sleep tonight.