Upcoming TV very slow to load

[Trevor68 70]

Using 4.8.3 server upcoming TV episodes take forever to load on android client, to the point where I just give up waiting, for the web client about a full minute before they load. Server 4.7 is instant in either. 

 

embyserver.txt

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes as it has to hit your Cache and on demand from provider to show you Upcome/future episodes.  Where in 4.7 everything was in the database but was removed in 4.8.

[Trevor68 70]

Right, so basically yet another design decision that is totally unworkable then. So glad I kept 4.7 as my main server.

Edited March 29, 2024 by Trevor68

[Spaceboy 2573]

page doesnt load at all for me. it may as well be removed

[Happy2Play 9780]

Not sure why it queries so often as I would think one a week would be more than enough.  But will guess it is system or how many series one has on the list but only takes no more than 15 seconds here.

[LongMan 112]

Why not make this an optional feature, if having it slows the system so much. Maybe some of us are willing to give it up.

[Happy2Play 9780]

That catch 22 as already cached load instantly.  Personally think the system may be too aggressive hitting TVDB.  But that is a guess on my part.

[LongMan 112]

Does more horsepower help with this?

[Lessaj 467]

You can tail the server log as the Upcoming page is loading and see all the requests being made, it can certainly take some time if you have a lot of shows that are still recurring and haven't ended yet.

[LongMan 112]

I do have a lot

[Trevor68 70]

7 hours ago, Spaceboy said:

page doesnt load at all for me. it may as well be removed

That's my experience on any android client too. 

Given it literally doesn't work for a lot of the time I think it would be best to enable a radio button to allow those who choose to cache the info. 

I understand a lot of other stuff being dumped to trim the DB, but at least let us have this? 

What say you @Luke

Edited March 30, 2024 by Trevor68

[JoLas 26]

For me it takes about 30 seconds to load in Edge and I have about 300 series or so...
Personally I'm fine with it because I know it takes time and I use it as a reminder for upcoming seasons to get.

For my users I would say useless, 30 seconds is way to long, they would have backed out within 10 seconds.

It would be nice if there was a scheduled task for this so you could run it maybe once a week or set it to what you want.

Edited March 30, 2024 by JoLarsson

[esp1818 6]

I have the same issue. Before version 4.8.x the Upcoming tab used to display instantly. Now it sits blank for about 30 seconds. The first time using it after the update I thought it was broken because it took so long to populate.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes we can look at improving this. Thanks.

[Trevor68 70]

Cool, as I just timed the web app, it was a bit over a minute of spinny blue circle. 

[JediMedia 3]

@Lukewhy not use the schedule to pre call the upcoming  and save it into the Cache/DB. it is not that the upcoming changes every second to call the TVDB on the fly. for someone who has a very large media, this could take forever. 

[Luke 42077]

HI, yes we are looking into imrpoving it. Thanks for the feedback.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Seems a lot faster in 4.8.4.0.  But could be the plugin update also.

[PrincessClevage 175]

+1 for adding this to schedule and into db cache. 

[Trevor68 70]

Fails to load ever on Android TV

[Luke 42077]

HI, yes this is on our list for review. Thanks for the feedback.

[invertedknife 13]

Any update on this?

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 hour ago, invertedknife said:

Any update on this?

Depends as it will always be a little slow depending on how many Shows you have that has to be updated/requeried as it takes mine 5 to 10 seconds depending on last time I clicked on it.  And almost instant for a while afterwards as everything has been cached.

[invertedknife 13]

Is there a background task I can run to do this every day so there's no delay when I click on the upcoming?

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, invertedknife said:

Is there a background task I can run to do this every day so there's no delay when I click on the upcoming?

HI, not a built-in one, but what you could do is just open up the metadata manager and navigate to the missing episode view once a day to start the downloading of data.

If you want to take that a step further, you could capture the emby server api url that it uses and automate fetching that once per day.