electron-builder VS atv-desktop-remote

The last step for each platform's build process is to upload the app to our GitHub releases repository. We automated this step from the beginning, but when we started creating builds for the new M1 chip Macs, we had to add a manual step. This involved merging files needed for the auto-updater to work with the M1 builds.

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues... that issue kinks to the PR that adds the automation.

It's a non-trivial thing to test, since it involves so many secrets and the notarization step can take over an hour, so I don't expect anyone here to actually want to look into it.

My original comment really was just venting my frustration, not a cry for help (but I might be crying soon if I can get to the bottom of this!).

> The ‘autoupdater’ does three things,

>

> - check the app for updates (using Sparkle)

> - report any crashes (using Sentry)

> - start a local HTTP proxy on port 40701 (this can be changed using the configuration json file in the app bundle).

>

> The latter is of course, not to be expected of any app on the machine, especially not one that just claims to be an auto updater.

Well, yes. And no.

For example, electron-builder [^0], a popular framework used for Electron app packaging and auto-updates, uses a local update server on Mac [^1] to add a more sane system backed by a more insane system, Squirrel.

[^0]: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder

[^1]: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/m...

The Project uses Electorn-Builder to package the app and Electorn-Updater to update.

You can read about this issue here: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/7114

Ostara is based off of electron-react-boilerplate and uses electron-builder to package the application.

Install electron and electron-builder

I believe Visual Studio Code uses Electron and posts releases on a regular basis. Maybe check their A quick Google search for "electron build github release" turns up "Electron Builder" https://www.electron.build/ I don't really know though; I've never used Electron.

I also would like to have an NSIS installer so if it happens to package the Chromium executable along with my app, how can I accomplish that? I am using electron-builder.

We use electron-builder at work.

It installs the dependencies at the beginning using Python, and that can take a minute or two depending on your setup. This only happens once. Did you download v1.0 beta? The first comment I made (but quickly edited) pointed to an older version which isn't compatible with the latest tvOS versions.

Yea, it's annoying. The reason is that the iPhone doesn't have an IR emitter and that's the way a lot of devices are controlled with the remote. I wish they'd allow devices with CEC to be controlled with the remote app, it's certainly possible. My very rough-around-the-edges desktop Apple TV remote project sends volume up / down commands, but it only changes the volume when a Bluetooth device or HomePod is connected.

I created a new version with a newer version of the application packager. If you want to check it out the new release is: https://github.com/bsharper/atv-desktop-remote/releases/tag/0.9.8