For updating or installing new plugins (extra channels or features), there's a user plugin manager. It's available as feature extension itself.
See the
Enable the
Restart streamtuner2 one last time for this change to take effect.
Once activated it brings up a new
You can scan for available/new plugins there. And have them
downloaded right away. New plugins are just downloaded, not
implictly enabled. Reopen the config dialog to see them in the
regular
Updated plugin versions won't be instantiated right away if they've been active already. That requires either a restart. Or disabling + saving once, then reenabling them.
Alternative download repositories may be configured. (Little practical value at the moment.)
And you can let the plugin manager handle ☑ autoactivation of changed plugin states.
After reconfiguring existing channel plugins, they get automatically instantiated or disabled in the user interface. (Which avoids the usual restart).
This currently doesn't work with feature/core plugins. Plugin deactivation is mostly visual, but does not undo menu extensions or undefine callback hooks.
Downloaded plugins are stored in
On Windows they're stored in
Core plugins (those which are installed system-wide) can often also be updated. The user-saved plugin will take precedence after a restart. However the version number in PluginManager2 still shows the system-installed/older version regardless.
So you'll have to take care to eventually refresh/delete outdated user plugins, whenever you install a newer Streamtuner2 version.
Since this is still rather experimental, you may disable all associated features by starting ST2 via:
Which inhibits loading this whole extension. (The -d
flag also works for any other plugin name.)