Could we get some sort of scanning progress indicator?

[simonk83 7]

This is one thing that I really miss from Plex:

 

 

If a metadata refresh or library scan is initiated, there's no user feedback it's actually happening (I know a library scan has a progress bar on the dashboard, but I find it rarely refreshes on its own, or if it does it's very infrequent).   The above from Plex is pretty elegant in my opinion.

 

Either that, or ideally as well as, some sort of easy to view realtime history, like:

 

 

[Happy2Play 9781]

There is a progress indicator, but it just gives percentages per library.  Not exact what you what though.

 

 

another similar request here.

[Sireone 6]

Agreed!!!! My scans take anywhere from 50mins to over an hour and I have no clue what Emby is actually doing during this time. Even real-time scans take 30+ mins for a single movie.

 

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[Happy2Play 9781]

Agreed!!!! My scans take anywhere from 50mins to over an hour and I have no clue what Emby is actually doing during this time. Even real-time scans take 30+ mins for a single movie.

 

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OT:  That is all about personal setups.  I have everything internal and takes minutes, and realtime takes as longer as the amount of new media I add (minutes also).

 

My beta server scan.

 

Edited July 3, 2017 by Happy2Play

[simonk83 7]

There is a progress indicator, but it just gives percentages per library.  Not exact what you what though.

 

 

 

I guess the thing with that is, I've been using Emby for a while and I've never seen that, I even tried to find it and couldn't get it to appear.   The nice thing about the Plex implentation I suppose is that it just pops up immediately and no matter where you are in Plex you can see what's happening.  You don't have to go hunting around, or refresh pages trying to get indicators to appear or update

 

One thing that no-one likes when using software is clicking a button and not knowing if it's actually doing anything or not.  The metadata refresh is especially bad for this, but the library scan isn't much better.

Edited July 3, 2017 by simonk83

[Luke 42080]

The history is a nice idea and possible for the future. In the meantime there are the progress bars per library that give some indication.

[simonk83 7]

The history is a nice idea and possible for the future. In the meantime there are the progress bars per library that give some indication.

 

Even if the progress bars stay, but are made a bit more responsive, that'd help a lot.   I don't really see them update unless I refresh the page.  It'd be great if they updated automatically every second or something a bit more 2017 (no offence) 

Edited July 3, 2017 by simonk83

[Sireone 6]

OT:  That is all about personal setups.  I have everything internal and takes minutes, and realtime takes as longer as the amount of new media I add (minutes also).

 

My beta server scan.

 

 

That is impressive.  Unfortunately, my movies are located on my Synology NAS, in a single Movies folder and I've already accepted the fact that (from previous posts) the library scan performance probably wont get much better or even close to what we're getting from Plex or native Kodi (using Watchdog).

 

My point is, from what the OP was saying, it would be nice to see what Emby was actually doing during the scan process, and may have insight on how to troubleshoot the performance.

[Happy2Play 9781]

Even if the progress bars stay, but are made a bit more responsive, that'd help a lot.   I don't really see them update unless I refresh the page.  It'd be great if they updated automatically every second or something a bit more 2017 (no offence) 

 

What browser are you using that you don't see it update? 

[simonk83 7]

What browser are you using that you don't see it update? 

 

Chrome.  Are we both talking about this one: 

 

 

That screenshot was taken at about 4:14pm for reference.

 

EDIT:

 

 

Edited July 3, 2017 by simonk83

[Happy2Play 9781]

When the percentage updates I see it in realtime when it does.

[simonk83 7]

When the percentage updates I see it in realtime when it does.

 

See edit above.

 

Mine pretty much never, or very rarely, changes at all once kicked off.  That scan took 29 seconds total but it was stuck at 18.8% (which is also where it started) for 7 minutes (until I navigated away).

Edited July 3, 2017 by simonk83

[gjviii 48]

is this showing what is being scanned?  can something similar be added to the dashboard?

 

[Happy2Play 9781]

is this showing what is being scanned?  can something similar be added to the dashboard?

 

 

Yes that shows what library and how much of that library has been scanned.  What do you mean "can something similar be added to the dashboard?"

[simonk83 7]

I'm guessing, like me, he's never actually seen that progress meter appear on the dashboard either

[Happy2Play 9781]

I'm guessing, like me, he's never actually seen that progress meter appear on the dashboard either

 

Sorry I don't see how you can miss it.  Unless you are referring to the new indicator and you will not see it on the dashboard, only on the Library cards.

 

 

Personally I think there are indicators in too may places (Dashboard, Library and Scheduled Tasks)

Edited July 4, 2017 by Happy2Play

[simonk83 7]

 

Sorry I don't see how you can miss it. 

Could be related to the other issue I posted above where the scan progress never updates.  Let me mess around a bit and get back to you.

Edited July 4, 2017 by simonk83

[simonk83 7]

Ok, it's because it sort of works, sometimes, it's just really flaky.

 

The progress bar on the dashboard - never updates unless I refresh

The progress bar on the Library page - does update as expected

The progress wheel on the Library page - sometimes shows up, mostly doesn't

 

I had the progress wheel appear one time, and even after a refresh it won't show up anymore.  On that one time it was present, it didn't update in real time.

 

 

This was kind of the point of my initial request in this thread.  If we could just have one little bar, or similar, like Plex that appears after you hit scan and persists for the length of the scan (updating actually in real time, like my gif in the first post, responsively, and also showing exactly what it's doing), and remains no matter where you navigate within Emby, then that would be a much more elegant, reliable solution and would also solve your issue of there being "too many progress bars"  (although, on that, personally I very, very, VERY rarely poke around in the Library tab after initially setting up the libraries so I didn't even know those progress bars existed).

Edited July 4, 2017 by simonk83

[ebr 16185]

Ok, it's because it sort of works, sometimes, it's just really flaky.

 

The progress bar on the dashboard - never updates unless I refresh

The progress bar on the Library page - does update as expected

The progress wheel on the Library page - sometimes shows up, mostly doesn't

 

I had the progress wheel appear one time, and even after a refresh it won't show up anymore.  On that one time it was present, it didn't update in real time.

 

 

This was kind of the point of my initial request in this thread.  If we could just have one little bar, or similar, like Plex that appears after you hit scan and persists for the length of the scan (updating actually in real time, like my gif in the first post, responsively, and also showing exactly what it's doing), and remains no matter where you navigate within Emby, then that would be a much more elegant, reliable solution and would also solve your issue of there being "too many progress bars"  (although, on that, personally I very, very, VERY rarely poke around in the Library tab after initially setting up the libraries so I didn't even know those progress bars existed).

 

What browser?

 

Are you running any kind of add-ons or plug-ins in the browser to block things (like popus or cookies or whatever)?

 

This really sounds like something in your environment is keeping these components from working properly.

[simonk83 7]

What browser?

 

Are you running any kind of add-ons or plug-ins in the browser to block things (like popus or cookies or whatever)?

 

This really sounds like something in your environment is keeping these components from working properly.

 

Hi ebr

 

I'm running Chrome.  That's a fair call, let me disable everything and see if that makes any difference.  I'm accessing it remotely at the moment as I'm at work, and I run it through a reverse proxy if that makes any difference.  

[simonk83 7]

Ok, I opened Emby in an Incognito Window, so no extensions.  Went to the Library tab and hit scan library.  The progress bar updated as expected, but no progress wheels appeared unfortunately.  It didn't affect the stalled progress bar on the Dash either.

Edited July 5, 2017 by simonk83

[gjviii 48]

Yes that shows what library and how much of that library has been scanned.  What do you mean "can something similar be added to the dashboard?"

this is what i meant " If we could just have one little bar, or similar, like Plex that appears after you hit scan and persists for the length of the scan (updating actually in real time, like my gif in the first post, responsively, and also showing exactly what it's doing), "