Idle Timer?

[nova]

I was curious if anyone knows how long it takes for VRChat to kick you from a room for being idle? I tried sitting in a room listening to music and got kicked after a period of time. Whats weird is I tried logging in on a second PC at the same time and when it went to kick me out for being idle it kicked out both accounts. This leads me to believe that VRchat kicks people out of a lobby only when everyone in a room is idle for a period of time to clear out lobbies. Is this true? I can't find any information on specifics.

[MinusMii]

it does not seem that VRChat has an idle timer that kicks you out of a room after a certain period of inactivity. However, there are some things that are related to clearing out lobbies.

the VRChat website mentions that lobbies may be cleared out after a certain period of time, but it does not specify any specific time limit or idle timer. It is possible that when everyone in a room is idle for a period of time, the lobby may be cleared out to make space for new users. However, it is unclear whether this is the reason why you were kicked out of the room.
and while there is no information on a specific idle timer in VRChat, it is possible that Safe Mode or lobby clearing features may have contributed to the situation you described.

[nova]

Originally posted by MinusMii:

it does not seem that VRChat has an idle timer that kicks you out of a room after a certain period of inactivity. However, there are some things that are related to clearing out lobbies.

the VRChat website mentions that lobbies may be cleared out after a certain period of time, but it does not specify any specific time limit or idle timer. It is possible that when everyone in a room is idle for a period of time, the lobby may be cleared out to make space for new users. However, it is unclear whether this is the reason why you were kicked out of the room.
and while there is no information on a specific idle timer in VRChat, it is possible that Safe Mode or lobby clearing features may have contributed to the situation you described.

It happened twice so there must be some sort of timer. Its just not something that apparently is ever a problem because I could find no one discuss it. If there wasnt a feature like this I imagine we would find a lot more lobbies with one or two people laying on the floor for days away from their computer. Clicking the screen every so many minutes is probably the hackiest way of solving the issue if you are DJing or something, but I imagine if other people are in the lobby and moving around it doesn't trigger the AFK timer.

[Maneki_Neko]

Originally posted by Nova:

Originally posted by MinusMii:

it does not seem that VRChat has an idle timer that kicks you out of a room after a certain period of inactivity. However, there are some things that are related to clearing out lobbies.

the VRChat website mentions that lobbies may be cleared out after a certain period of time, but it does not specify any specific time limit or idle timer. It is possible that when everyone in a room is idle for a period of time, the lobby may be cleared out to make space for new users. However, it is unclear whether this is the reason why you were kicked out of the room.
and while there is no information on a specific idle timer in VRChat, it is possible that Safe Mode or lobby clearing features may have contributed to the situation you described.

It happened twice so there must be some sort of timer. Its just not something that apparently is ever a problem because I could find no one discuss it. If there wasnt a feature like this I imagine we would find a lot more lobbies with one or two people laying on the floor for days away from their computer. Clicking the screen every so many minutes is probably the hackiest way of solving the issue if you are DJing or something, but I imagine if other people are in the lobby and moving around it doesn't trigger the AFK timer.

there is no timer, people afk for hours sleeping in vrc and not kicked, if you where kicked youd have gotten an appropriate system pop up your internet is probably flakey and cant handle the throughput i.e. wifi or cellular inatead of network cable

[Rena Ichigawa]

If I can fall asleep in a world, and have my headset shut itself off, yet come back 8 hours later still right where I was moved, I'm doubtful there is a idle timer. Might be a entirely different problem, like a momentary internet disconnect. If it's in public lobbies, it's very possible you may have been removed by the lobby owner, or vote kicked from the lobby for some unknown reason.

[nova]

Originally posted by Rena Ichigawa:

If I can fall asleep in a world, and have my headset shut itself off, yet come back 8 hours later still right where I was moved, I'm doubtful there is a idle timer. Might be a entirely different problem, like a momentary internet disconnect. If it's in public lobbies, it's very possible you may have been removed by the lobby owner, or vote kicked from the lobby for some unknown reason.

Neither of those. I was the lobby owner and no one else was there to kick me. You cant kick two accounts out at the same time, which is what happened.

So in what situation is someone sent back to their private starting hub? Because that must be why. If it's not a kick or afk idle timer then maybe it's a brief loss of internet connection. Which makes sense given it happened to two accounts on the same network at once and I'm using a lot of bandwidth to do what I'm doing. The desktop was on Ethernet and the laptop was on wifi. I have fast internet. Must have been network congestion then. Good to know.