How can I automate downloading new resources, installing them, and indexing?

My biggest frustration with Logos is that it seems like I am always being interrupted to download some update and then let Logos re-index itself.

What I would like is to find a way to automate the process, so that every night at (for example) 3:00 a.m., Logos will launch itself, check for any updates, download them, apply them, and update its index.

I'm fairly fluent in automating apps on the Mac, but Logos isn't using standard Mac UI buttons for things like "Update Now" so I'm not sure if Keyboard Maestro will be able to trigger them reliably.

Then I thought there might already be a way to do this that I don't know about, so I thought I should ask before I reinvent a solution.

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Donnie Hale

In your "Settings," you can do exactly this. I have my updates to download nightly at 1:00 AM. On Windows, there's a toolbar icon that will appear letting me know that a download will happen that night. When I see that, I close Logos when I'm done for the evening so that resources can be updated and indexing completed before I return.

That will not handle program version upgrades, as far as I've experienced. Those need to be explicitly initiated once the download has happened.

Donnie

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/573576#Comment_573576

Hi Donnie

When I see that, I close Logos when I'm done for the evening so that resources can be updated and indexing completed before I return.

Last time I tried this the download happened but incorporating into the library and indexing needed manual intervention.

Has this changed?

Graham

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/573584#Comment_573584

If that works all you would really need to script is loading logos eg. at midnight to do the indexing and then assume the index will take less than 30 minutes, quit and sleep. So no UI interaction just launching and exiting the program. This is a very simple script.

An alternative is to simply wait to relaunch the program until you want to use the resources or you finish work...

tjluoma

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/573584#Comment_573584

Yes, this is exactly the issue.

When I come in I see the notice about "new resources are ready to be added, click here" and it's only after that Logos does the indexing, which is really the problematic piece.

I cannot think of any way to accurately automate the indexing part. I am on a Mac, and I could theoretically tell Keyboard Maestro to click in the vicinity of the pop-up alert, but that's really not very robust.

There is a command "UPDATE NOW" which can be entered into the "Command" field. I guess what I would like is an "UPDATE AND REINDEX NOW" command, or some other method. That could be automated fairly well, I think.

(I am assuming there is a keyboard shortcut to get into the "Command" field, although I do not know/remember what it is at the moment.

tab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/575686#Comment_575686

When I come in I see the notice about "new resources are ready to be added, click here" and it's only after that Logos does the indexing, which is really the problematic piece.

When you get updates you could refrain from restarting the application until a time comes that you won't be bothered by the indexing process. I can't think of any application that has access to a machine on the level you're requesting.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/575686#Comment_575686

There is a command "UPDATE NOW" which can be entered into the "Command" field. I guess what I would like is an "UPDATE AND REINDEX NOW" command, or some other method. That could be automated fairly well, I think.

If you set Logos up to download and install resources at (say 2am), all you will need to do is configure a scheduler on your Mac to start Logos at 1:55am, and close it perhaps at 6am. If there have been updates, Logos will start installing and indexing them as soon as you quit, without requiring Logos to be restarted.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/573576#Comment_573576

In your "Settings," you can do exactly this. I have my updates to download nightly at 1:00 AM.

When resources are ready to install, the Logos Indexer waits for Logos to close so could use program settings to download at 1:00 am; close Logos at 1:30 am so indexing starts when download completes.

Keep Smiling [:)]

tjluoma

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/575706#Comment_575706

This is what I'll try, I guess. I was hoping for something a bit more precise.

I have Keyboard Maestro set to launch Logos at 1:55 a.m.

In Logos' settings, I have told it to run automatic updates between 2am and 4am.

Keyboard Maestro is then set to quit Logos at 4am.