Suggestion: The command line and Unity Hub

[Thaina]

@AbrahamDUnity I have made a post about that here

Communicate with editor from unity url scheme?

Like we could open and install package from asset store. I wish I could create url to send data and command unity from web page. Maybe calling some static functions in the project with parameter from the website Is it already possible?

and post here

Please let us open .unitypackage with unityhub

UnityHub should just handle the unitypackage file by redirect it to opened project, or let us select the project like we try to open project normally I mean, it could just show the same UI as project selection. But allow us to selected the already opened project. And instead of error bar that project was opened, it should just open that unitypackage in that project instead

also with detailed comment here

Windows 8.1: *.unitypackage file extension should be handled by -which- EXE?

I have create this request and I think it should be like this https://discussions.unity.com/t/734419 Each machine can have many version of unity editor. But it most likely have only one hub. And so what it should happen is, everything related to unity should be handled by hub itself When we double click to open .unitypackage or trying to import things from asset store. Or if in any future if we would have URL scheme to import package into package manager from anywhere. The hub should handle …

There was 2 feature that I would like the hub to handle. First is the unitypackage file. It should be registered in windows registry to always open by hub

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Each machine can have many version of unity editor. But it most likely have only one hub. And so what it should happen is, everything related to unity should be handled by hub itself

When we double click to open .unitypackage or trying to import things from asset store. Or if in any future if we would have URL scheme to import package into package manager from anywhere. The hub should handle it like this

• If there was no unity instance opened. The hub would just show a normal hub UI for select project like normal. But after the project was opened the hub will also telling that, that project should import that package we try to import from the start

• If there was exactly one unity instance opened. The hub should just command the opened instance to import package like normal register

• If there was multiple instances of unity opened. The hub should again open the select project UI like normal, sort by latest opened project as default. And then send the import command to that opened project

• Alternatively. If the hub could know the last focused project windows. It might just import into that last focused project. And also if the hub was the last focused windows then it fallback to select project UI

Second. It was my wish for such times that unity should be able to invoke its command from browser. In the same way as “Import package” button in assetstore website that could launch assetstore window inside the editor app
Because the browser could logged in the webservice provider, such as oauth provider, and get the data from any webservice. I wish I could create admin page in browser that could make a link, such as <a href="unity://projectA/menuA/commandA?someData=xxx">Call menuA/commandA in unity editor</a> to communicate with local unity editor from the browser instead of creating httplistener or webserver inside unity

But also the same as problem of unitypackage above. One machine could have many version of unity. But the hub would most likely be single. So this feature too should just be handled by the hub in the same way as unitypackage above

In fact. The url scheme could be treated in the same manner as the hub treating command line too