2025-05-28, 05:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-05-28, 05:40 PM by AlienBulls. Edited 2 times in total.)
(2025-05-28, 02:06 PM)toytown Wrote: Yes i think you solved it, i used tcpflow to get the same data you did and i just see a bunch of backdrop requests all the time in the log. I think some logic needs to be used to stop it sending bigger files than the original backdrop though.
As we had already suspected, it was the screensaver. My friend disabled it, and the hourly traffic has gone down again.
I have to say, the setup is a bit odd. He’s using an old TV without a USB port, so he connected his Fire TV Stick directly to a USB power adapter. That means when he turns off the TV, the Fire TV Stick doesn’t automatically turn off as well. It's also strange that the Fire TV Stick apparently never goes into sleep mode, but oh well.
The whole point of the screensaver is to cycle through images, of course, but it would be nice if you could set a time limit server-side (and the client actually respected it), because after several hours, it really starts to seem pointless.
That said, I probably wouldn’t have noticed any of this if it weren’t for the main issue: the images are way too large or poorly compressed. There’s definitely something wrong there.
Anyway, I’ll just ask my friends to disable the screensaver, and then the matter is pretty much resolved for me.
Thanks toytown for helping!
Edit: Maybe it doesn't go to sleep because he didn't stop the playback, he just paused it.
