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jashan
Up and Coming
January 9, 2019

Is there a way to disable Oculus Home autostarting?

During development, whenever I put on the HMD for testing, first I get an "empty compositor" that only shows the Oculus dashboard with Explore, Library, Store, Social and so forth. This also has "Home" and "Desktop" - so if I want to enter Home, I could simply click "Home". But I actually almost never want to start up home.

Unfortunately, after a brief moment (probably a loading time), "Home" opens up.

Is there a way to disable this, so "Home" only opens up when I click "Home" on the dashboard?

I wouldn't mind completely getting rid of Home if that's easier - but just not automatically loading it would be fine.

5 replies

WebMetalReese
WebMetalReese
Up and Coming
February 7, 2019
I also wish to do the same thing as home is very taxing on my system resources. 
johnfshaughness
Participant
February 25, 2019
It's very frustrating to have it constantly start when developing. Please let us disable this autostart behavior.

The best solution I've come up with is to rename or delete the binary so that it fails to start. For me that's in
C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-worlds\Home2\Binaries\Win64

Hope they don't find a way to prevent me from doing this. I really don't want to run Oculus Home. I promise I'm not mistaken.
Buwubi
Up and Coming
February 26, 2019
I agree it is very frustrating for development, also because Home often clashes with the app I'm actually trying to run lel.

There's no actual "clean" way of disabling it, altho I get why they do it. I mean competing with Steam, a household name, so they just auto boot it every time, cause reactionary-wise ppl are more likely to just open Steam and get stuff from there. But yeah, would be nice to be able to turn it off, at the very least as a developer.
coldT
New Participant
February 27, 2019
Trying my hardest to agree with disabling auto-start of Oculus home without writing in all caps.

Yes, please. Oculus Home is resource-heavy and the long duration of its reboot is a productivity killer when trying to iterate on development.

It’s like if every time you refreshed your browser during web development, you first had to wait for YouTube.com to load every thumbnail. In theory, it shouldn’t be that bad, but it adds up.

As a consumer, I’m annoyed too, but that’s a whole different topic...
haskins
Participant
May 8, 2019
A ' developer mode ' for the Home app would be great. 
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