I would like to see what Serviio is doing

Yes there is the "debug" option that creates a log, but not very easy to read. And despite of what people say (warning, it will become huge !!) on my PC the log seems to be deleted every 8/10 minutes, because when I came back to read it, it does not have the same lines it had on the previous check, and sometime is smaller.

So: I think it would be useful a "live" small log that can be seen in the Console window. The last line show what Serviio is doing now; previous line what it has done.
like:

12:10:00 Looking for files to share in folder F:\video ............................ 15 files found
12:10:10 Looking for files to share in folder F:\video\cartoons ................. 18 files found
12:10:20 Looking for files to share in folder F:\video\cartoons\children ....... 25 files found
.....
12:10:10 All folders checked. Restarting in 5 minutes.

Many people have problems and cannot see their files from the client app/hardware, and sometime the check of the folders, as you say, can take hours.

Thank you
Sergio

[Zek]

+1 I would love this too.

I spend most of my time right now refreshing the log file manually. Like you said Gino, nothing fancy needed. A running tally of how many files processed, which exact file is processed and if wether it's doing file analysis, thumbnail creation, internet metadata fetching etc.

This may make initial bug reports easier too. "Hey it's stuck at file so and so, doing this and that...."

Cheers,
Zek

+1

this seems like great idea

+1.
I would also like to see what devices are connected and what the status of transcoding (if any) is.

+1 for some info in the console (at least something like indexed 54% of your files or 54621/1023949 files)

[Cerberus]

+100 this is inmy eyes a very important feature to let teh server admin know exactly what the server is doing.

[zip]

At the moment it says "checking for new files/ checking for updates" .... is that not enough?

[bassmadrigal]

At the moment it says "checking for new files/ checking for updates" .... is that not enough?

I think people are looking more for an idea of how far along it is, rather than that it is just updating.

[Illico]

I think people are looking more for an idea of how far along it is, rather than that it is just updating.

So, you mean display the log INFO traces on console ?

[bassmadrigal]

To me it isn't a big deal, but I think people are looking more for a way to see how far along serviio is. Maybe if it were to go through and get a list of how many files are to be added, and then count as ffmpeg generates the thumbnails (since I am sure that is the longest part of the process). I am not sure how this is currently done, maybe ffmpeg generates the thumbnails as it is adding things into the database which might make things a bit more difficult.

I think they are looking for some sort of progress bar, or percent of completion. However, I think some would be happy to see some snippets of the log file in the console to realize something is actually being done. eg

  Code:

18:40 Added Minority Report
18:40 Added Chuck S04E03 Chuck vs. the Cubic Z
18:41 Updated Independence Day
etc

(I know my examples are really crude)

Zip, if you were to implement something like the above, I think it would be useful to add whether metadata has been found... Something like:

  Code:

18:40 Added Minority Report: Found on Moviedb
18:40 Added Chuck S04E03 Chuck vs. the Cubic Z: Found on TheTVDb
18:41 Updated Independence Day: Found on Moviedb
18:42 Added Backdraft.avi: Metadata not found
etc

Or possibly have a log or list of all files that didn't have metadata found. I know this is a constant fight in my system. Trying to find out what videos serviio didn't find so I can tweak their names so they get recognized properly. If there was a list, this would be a lot easier to go through.

I just know that sometimes when you are waiting for something to be added before you can pull it up on the tv, it can be kinda annoying just looking at serviio saying: "checking for new files/ checking for updates". Like I said, this isn't a big deal to me, but I can understand why some people would want it.

At the moment it says "checking for new files/ checking for updates" .... is that not enough?

I think people are looking more for an idea of how far along it is, rather than that it is just updating.

Completely agree. I installed Serviio at the weekend and let it scan my photo library - the next morning it looks like it is still going or has it crashed. No idea, so I delete the folder and give it a much smaller folder and it still takes some hours and doesn't appear to stop.

A progress bar would be excellent to show that it is actually progressing and hasn't crashed or stopped.

[Zek]

A progress bar might be hard since that might take a prescan to count the total number of files first. However, a small UI thread that shows the full path of the file processed along with a total count would be awesome. 1 update per second would plenty.

Cheers,
Zek