Library updates in the background

[nicknick]

Theres a long list of preferred features that users would like. Since moving from Plex I absolutely love Infuse, especially its performance. The only qualm that I have is the library updating. This seems to take several minutes and ofcourse requires Infuse to be launched. For those that are not as tech savvy conclude the new content simply isn’t there.

finally in tvOS 11 a solution has been released. Apple has released Background Refresh and I am hoping Infuse can taken advantage of that and scrape new library content as it is added instead of the user being required to launch the app

[james]

We plan to dig into the iOS 11 changes after the release or 5.5 in July.

If it’s possible, we’ll make it happen.

[nicknick]

Sounds good thanks, and another iOS 11 beta tester here.

[firecorehart]

+1 for library updates in the background. If not possible, please consider immediate update at infuse start time, with option for configuring. We always go directly to the library, and it is always a pain when promised episodes do not show up until the update is complete. The sooner the better. Thank-you.

[willco]

@james

We plan to dig into the iOS 11 changes after the release or 5.5 in July.

If it’s possible, we’ll make it happen.

Is there a beta wait list / sign up for iOS 11 beta + Infuse beta?

[james]

@willco

Is there a beta wait list / sign up for iOS 11 beta + Infuse beta?

Yep.

Infuse beta testing signup

[Christian1979]

Hi James

Maybe there is also a possibility to make some kind of “Background Caching”, to preload the Posters (Movies, TV-Shows) to avoid “white Covers”…?

Here is my Posting about this topic:

Poster Refresh > Pre-Loading (Background Caching)

I have noticed (on Movies and also TV-Shows) the Posters always get “refreshed”, if I open up Infuse or if I use another tvOS App first and then open Infuse again… => The Posters always get refreshed (If I scroll down the list, first I see white Posters, then it loads the Posters)… => If the Covers are loaded once, then everything is “cached” and you can go again into the folder without loading! But this “Cache Process” should go automatically in the Background! Maybe Firecore could do some i…

[gazzer82]

Has their been any progress with this? I really want to switch away from Plex, but this single issue keeps pushing me back

With the addition of the refresh rate switching API finally being released, and the faint hope that bitstreaming might come to iOS in the future all my dreams would have come true . . .

[IGI2]

+1

[plop]

Hi,

That would be a nice feature yes. But what would be even better if it could update the library in the background on the AppleTV (always on and always connected to the network) in a way that it would be up to date on my iPhone too. I know Infuse uses iCloud but I don’t know to which extend. Updating the library on my iPhone can be slow due to network condition.