[mythtv-users] Leanfront problem - too many recordings?

[John Pilkington]

On 01/01/2024 08:56, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> Having just bought a new LG C3 48" 4K TV, I have now also got a FireTV
> Stick 4K Max to go with it, as that seems to be the easy way to get a
> full HDMI 2.1 4:4:4 connection to the TV for the best picture.  So I
> have installed the leanfront app on it and tried it out.  When I set
> leanfront to point to my mother's MythTV box, it works as expected.
> But when I point it to my own MythTV box, it fails to download the
> recordings list.  I suspect this is due to my box having 63021
> recordings (121.9 Tibytes).  When I do a command like this from
> another PC on my network:
> 
> curl http://mypvr:6544/Dvr/GetRecordedList -o recordedlist.xml
> 
> it takes just over 45 seconds before the backend starts sending the
> list, and then the downloaded list is 143 Mbytes.  So I suspect two
> different things could be a problem where - first, leanfront may be
> timing out while waiting to receive the data from the backend, and
> second, the data may be too big for leanfront to handle.  Is there a
> way to see if leanfront is logging any messages that would shed some
> light on the problem?

https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront#debugging

Perhaps the startup could omit sending thumbnails for every recording? 
My main system has 'only' arond 2000 recordings, and works well, but all 
those thumbnails could be overkill.

John P