screentinker/android/app
ScreenTinker bc00bc1eb1 Stop re-registering the device once per playlist item
PlaylistController.next() asks for a playlist refresh on every item advance, and
requestPlaylistRefresh() emits a full device:register. The server's register handler
runs 7+ statements plus the identity/fingerprint path and rebuilds the playlist
payload, then pushes the whole playlist back down. So a panel showing a 10-second
image re-registered six times a minute, indefinitely, and each reply fed a fresh
playlist into a controller that had to diff it — which is what kept the #234 restart
loop supplied.

It was buying nothing. The heartbeat already refreshes every 4th beat (60s), so the
periodic pull this duplicated happens either way.

Throttled at the single chokepoint rather than by editing callers, because the callers
have genuinely different intents — network-came-back, service-connected, per-item, and
the heartbeat itself — and ranking them would be guesswork. A shared floor keeps every
caller's meaning: recovery paths still refresh, they just cannot stack. The window sits
just under the heartbeat's own 60s so the two interleave instead of the throttle
systematically eating the pull we are relying on.

Measured on the reproduction over 240s: 9 registrations for 9 item plays before, 3 for
the same 9 plays after, with playback unchanged. The saving scales with how short the
items are — a 10s item goes from six refreshes a minute to about one.

Does NOT change what a refresh does, only how often one may be asked for.
2026-07-29 14:13:42 -05:00
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src Stop re-registering the device once per playlist item 2026-07-29 14:13:42 -05:00
build.gradle.kts chore(release): v1.9.24 2026-07-28 23:37:59 -05:00
proguard-rules.pro Initial open source release 2026-04-08 12:14:53 -05:00