CoppeliaSim forums

I need to turn off the automatic update checker as it is causing havoc with my attempts to run sims over nights and weekends. After setting a series of simulations running using (on a linux terminal)

for i in {1..20}; do ../vrep.sh -g70.5 '/home/user/Downloads/V-REP_PRO_EDU_V3_5_0_Linux/scenes/filename.ttt' -s300000 -q ; done ;

I leave it running only to find that ratehr than complete all the 20 sims it has stopped after just a few and spent hours sitting waiting for me to click to ignore the pop-up which announces that a new version is out. I want to update at some point but I'd ratehr just get my series of runs done on the present ersion I have. And I don't want my unattended runs of sims over the nights and weekends stopped by a pop-up which needs human attention to fix it. I haven't noticed a V-REP setting anywhere that stops this automatic checking, and an online search about turning off V-REP updates gives no relevant results. Is there a config file anywhere in V-REP's folder that I could delete or modify so as to prevent this automatic checking? Or any specific rule I could add to a linux ubuntu ufw firewall to block V-REP's ability to check against your online servers whether a new version is available? I'm desperate for help with this, having my runs paused awaiting a human click makes gathering statistical data impossible.
Thank you

Would editing the 8 byte file updtChck.data perhaps help? I'm guessing it has something to do with deciding at what tiems of day to check for updates?

Hello,

have you tried setting doNotShowUpdateCheckMessage = true in system/usrset.txt?

Or even better for this scenario, set suppressStartupDialogs = true.

Thanks fferri, that looks like an appropriate solution for my trouble. I've edited doNotShowUpdateCheckMessage in the usrset.txt file from false to true but can't find "suppressStartupDialogs = false" anywhere so as to change it to being true, should I just add that line in, set to true, at the bottom of the file? Thanks.

Hello,

suppressStartupDialogs was recently added. If you are running V3.6.2, then it will make it into the next release. Otherwise, try upgrading to the latest release.

Cheers