[0.1.2] - 2023-11-26
Note: This update will require re-installing dispatch from scratch. Otherwise, errors might occur
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New
- Automatic color filtering on dark, difficult to read, logos
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Improved:
- Dispatch now takes up as little as 15% of previous disk space requirements
- Dispatch no longer requires an extended metadata scraping period after setup.
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Fixed
- Fixes an issue where the wrong title or artwork was displayed on the home screen.
- Fixes an issue causing Dispatch to freeze on launch or wake-up.
Changelog Details:
Automatic color filtering on dark, difficult to read, logos
Sometimes, black or very dark logos can be difficult to read against a dark background. Dispatch will now run contrast calculations on logos, and when a logo fails to meet contrast requirements, a white filter will be applied in an attempt to make things more legible.
Here's an example of where this feature comes in handy:
Note
: While this feature is currently always turned on, it will become optional by the time we reach v1.0.Dispatch now takes up as little as 15% of previous disk space requirements
In previous versions of Dispatch, after the initial setup, all movies and TV shows would be queued for metadata scraping from the user's Plex server. This extra metadata was required in order to build recommendations for the home tab.
Dispatch now only retains this extended metadata for items shown on the home tab, and
only
while
they are shown on the home tab. As a result, a library of 5,000 movies now requires a database of ~30mb, vs the previous ~120mb. And a library of 50,000 movies also requires a database of ~30mb, vs the previous 650mb
.Dispatch no longer requires an extended metadata scraping period after setup
Following-up on the previous improvement, depending on your Plex library size, this process could take anywhere from 1 hour (for ~5,000 movies) to 24 hours (for ~50,000 movies), during which app performance would be degraded due to the heavy background processing.
This step has now been completely eliminated, leading to two major benefits:
- A full list of recommendations will now be available as soon as the setup wizard is completed.
- The one-time, extended period of degraded app performance has been drastically reduced.
Note
: After setup, Dispatch will still scrape metadata for media recommended on the home tab. This usually only lasts about 10–30 minutes, depending on your internet connection.