Joey Parrish

I will work on that later today if I can. I need to go into the lab, update the device, and check that [ChromeOS WebDriver Server](https://github.com/shaka-project/generic-webdriver-server/tree/main/backends/chromeos#readme) is still functional. We...

I had already updated and fixed the ChromeOS device in our lab. However, some time later, it seems to have rebooted or auto-updated and in the process, SSH was disabled....

I was referring to the setup process for ChromeOS in the lab. After some more digging, I discovered that I was misremembering. Before Generic WebDriver Server, we had a much...

> [The docs for Generic WebDriver Server say](https://github.com/shaka-project/generic-webdriver-server/blob/main/backends/chromeos/device-setup.md#updating-chromeos): > > > Updating ChromeOS may undo the "Enabling SSH" steps above, and they may need to be repeated periodically if auto-updates...

Updated to include both background sync and background fetch as tools we may want to use for this, and closing #881 as a duplicate.

Issues implementing background fetch & sync so far: - BG fetch is behind a flag in Chrome 61, experimental web platform features must be enabled explicitly. Expected at this stage,...

According to Chrome team, background fetch is not ready for production yet. Leaving this issue on the backlog until that changes.

This may be blocked on changes in Chrome for now: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1256838

Possibly also blocked by this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1255711

We are waiting for the changes to become on-by-default and in the stable branch of Chrome. AFAIK that has not happened yet.