Update install window: automatic updates only within a chosen daily time range
Feature (requested 2026-07-26): Preferences' update settings gain 'Only install updates within this time range' - a checkbox plus Start/End time lists in 15-minute steps (00:00-23:45, default 01:00-06:00). RemSound streams live audio, so an automatic update mid-session kills someone's sound; with the range on, the startup check and the background poll DEFER an available update until the range opens (a one-shot timer retries right at the range start, so a 24-hourly poll can't keep missing the window for days). Manual 'Check for updates now' is deliberately never gated - asking by hand means now. End at-or-before start wraps past midnight (22:00-06:00); start minute inclusive, end exclusive; an equal start/end means unrestricted rather than a silent never-install trap. The service inherits the window for free: its self-update follows the app's install. readme: the two new Preferences rows, the service startup-volume option, and a security note on password-locked remote volume (both ends need 5.6). New gate step pins the window maths (same-day, wraparound, boundaries, empty-range rule, retry arithmetic). Dialog audit covers the new controls. Gate 66/66. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<p>The feature is symmetric: both computers can both send and accept. If you set up hotkeys on both ends and tick “Accept remote volume commands” on both ends, either side can adjust the other's volume. There's no fixed “controller” and “controlled” computer.</p>
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<p><strong>Security:</strong> remote commands are locked with the profile password, the same way the audio is. A command only works when both machines share the password, so nobody on the network can fake one and mute your machine — important when the machine's sound is also your screen reader. Both ends need version 5.6 or newer for remote volume to work; a command from an older version is ignored (the log records it as rejected).</p>
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<h3>What it does not touch</h3>
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<tr><td><strong>Then check every</strong> (drop-down)</td><td>Alt+U</td><td>How often RemSound checks for a newer version in the background <em>after</em> launch. Choices: <em>Never</em>, <em>Every hour</em>, <em>Every 6 hours</em>, <em>Every 24 hours</em>. The default is <em>Every 24 hours</em>. Your choice is remembered between launches; if you set it to <em>Never</em> and you've also unticked the startup check, the only way an update arrives is through the manual button below.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><strong>Check for updates now</strong> (button)</td><td>Alt+N</td><td>Checks for a newer version straight away. If you're already up to date you get a small popup saying so. If there's a newer version, you get a confirmation dialog with the release notes and a Yes / No to install. The same button is in the Help menu (Alt+H, C).</td></tr>
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<tr><td><strong>Silently install updates when available</strong> (checkbox)</td><td>Alt+I</td><td>When ticked, the background and startup checks install any available update without asking — RemSound downloads it, closes briefly, swaps the files, and reopens itself. Off by default. The startup check shows a brief notice first so you can see what's about to happen (see below). The <em>manual</em> “Check for updates now” button always asks first, no matter how this checkbox is set.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><strong>Only install updates within this time range</strong> (checkbox)</td><td>Alt+T</td><td>When ticked, <em>automatic</em> installs (the startup check and the background timer) only go ahead inside the daily time range you set below — so an update never closes RemSound and kills your sound while you're mid-session. If an update is found outside the range, RemSound notes it and quietly retries the moment the range opens. Off by default. The manual “Check for updates now” button ignores the range — if you ask by hand, you get it straight away.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><strong>Start time</strong> / <strong>End time</strong> (drop-downs)</td><td>Alt+A / Alt+D</td><td>The daily range for the checkbox above, in 15-minute steps from 00:00 to 23:45. They only light up when the range is enabled. The default is 01:00 to 06:00 — overnight. A range whose end is at or before its start runs past midnight: 22:00 to 06:00 covers late evening straight through to early morning. The start minute counts as inside the range; the end minute is outside it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><strong>Show what's new after each update</strong> (checkbox)</td><td>Alt+H</td><td>When ticked, the first time RemSound opens after an update has installed, it pops up the About box — which starts with the notes for the version you just got — so you can see what changed. Off by default. It only happens once per update, never on an ordinary restart, and never on a fresh install.</td></tr>
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<h3>Setting it up</h3>
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<p>Everything lives in the <strong>Service</strong> menu on the menu bar:</p>
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<li><strong>Configure service profile…</strong> — opens a small window with two tabs (Connectivity and Audio send) where you choose who to send to (plus a password) and what to send. On the Audio send tab, the first output choice is <strong>Use Windows default audio device, follows Windows changes</strong> — tick that to send whatever this machine is currently playing and keep following the Windows default if it later changes, rather than pinning one named card. (You can still pick specific devices, or a specific application, exactly as in the normal app.) There is no “send my audio” switch because the service always sends, and there is no audio-quality tab to fiddle with: the service always uses the settings that work best for live streaming (the Opus live-latency codec, small packets, locked to the audio clock), so it just sounds right. This is a separate profile from your normal ones and does not appear in the usual profile list. The <strong>Additional options</strong> button lets you turn the service's own log on or off. (The service itself never plays sounds — it streams silently in the background — so there are no cue options here.)</li>
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<li><strong>Configure service profile…</strong> — opens a small window with two tabs (Connectivity and Audio send) where you choose who to send to (plus a password) and what to send. On the Audio send tab, the first output choice is <strong>Use Windows default audio device, follows Windows changes</strong> — tick that to send whatever this machine is currently playing and keep following the Windows default if it later changes, rather than pinning one named card. (You can still pick specific devices, or a specific application, exactly as in the normal app.) There is no “send my audio” switch because the service always sends, and there is no audio-quality tab to fiddle with: the service always uses the settings that work best for live streaming (the Opus live-latency codec, small packets, locked to the audio clock), so it just sounds right. This is a separate profile from your normal ones and does not appear in the usual profile list. The <strong>Additional options</strong> button holds two extras. First, a switch for the service's own log. Second, <strong>Set the machine's volume when the service starts</strong>: tick it, pick a volume percent, and the service unmutes the machine and sets its Windows volume to that level when it starts — handy for an unattended PC that booted muted or was left turned down, so it's audible again with nobody at the keyboard. The <strong>When</strong> list chooses between <em>Only the first start after each boot</em> (the default — a mid-day service restart then leaves the volume alone while someone's using the machine) and <em>Every time the service starts</em>. Changes take effect from the service's next start, no reinstall needed. (The service itself never plays sounds — it streams silently in the background — so there are no cue options here.)</li>
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<li><strong>Install service</strong> — registers it with Windows so it starts automatically at every boot. Windows asks for administrator permission (one prompt). Do this once. Straight after installing, RemSound asks whether you'd like to <strong>start it now</strong> (otherwise it waits until the next reboot). (When you first install RemSound on a PC, the app installer also offers to set the service up — and start it — for you, so you may have done this already.)</li>
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<li><strong>Start service</strong> / <strong>Stop service</strong> — run or halt it now without waiting for a reboot.</li>
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<li><strong>Uninstall service</strong> — removes it entirely.</li>
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