Virtual device main loop

[robmac 173]

Hi,

I have been trying to add track position to a virtual device so the status is shown and the slider can be used to move to a position in the track.

It works but the interface updates jerkily.

Has anyone worked out if the main loop executes at exactly 1s intervals so this is just browser rendering and you have to live with it or if the loop executes at around 1s intervals so is not suitable for this purpose.

Overall track time works out pretty well.

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[Shad 4]

Very interesting

[Hockey 1]

Can you put the Lua code that you used , so we can take a cue from yours??

Thanks

Greetings from Sicily

[robmac 173]

No rocket science

ui.lblTrackLength.value and ui.lblRemain.value are set by the squeezebox add in when the track starts or play restarts

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can't understand why the UI is so jerky

[Krikroff 199]

can't understand why the UI is so jerky

because Fibaro use simple xml http request to update UI, XHR is great to refresh some part of a web page but a query that should take one second can take 10 seconds simply! for a good results should Fibaro must use a tcp socket but is not suitable for web integration (browser compatibility etc), they can use it with ios and android (but only in local i think). Main Loop is not accurate so, simply put a fibaro:debug() in it and see the result

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main loop is very unusable for me at this time because: garbage collector occurs randomly and reset global variable sometimes yes, sometimes no ! can't use at the same time socket in main loop and socket in a button of the same virtual device, I tried many things without convincing results

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I wait next beta update and I hope good surprises

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[robmac 173]

Noticed the random garbage collection. The main loop is just odd. Why have a loop that runs every second?

look forward to something better.