Bundling multiple notifications into one #9597
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How would we handle notification balloons that have a char limit? |
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Good question. In terms of character limit per message, not balloon - I guess the most straightforward option would be to write down max char limits for every notification platform, and then chunk messages based on that limit. While this may still result in multiple notifications coming one after another, at least it will be a lot less, like 3-5 instead of 30. As an example, here are my notifications that all came one after another within like 5-10 seconds. That's 38 notifications, with a total of 4392 characters. Slack can handle that as 1 message. Discord has a 2000 character limit and would handle it in 3 messages. Not sure about Pushbullet, but I think it has a long limit as well. For extreme cases maybe there could be an option of making it like "Started Download: Better Call Saul - 2x07 and 37 more", which could be optionally enabled for notification agents that don't support long messages. For balloons - well, I think they are handled by OS already. I mean here's an example notification:
It's already longer than any balloon can handle. I almost never see entire notification text on Windows or Android, it's always trimmed like "Started Download: Better Call Saul - 3x03 - Sunk Co..." or something like that. So I don't think it's something that Medusa is supposed to handle on it's end? PS: |
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Hello,
Currently whenever a new episode of the show is found, starts downloading or finishes download Medusa sends one notification per episode in quick succession. Meaning that you can get like 30+ notifications one after another, basically making your PC or phone to go "DING DING DING DING DING!!..." and then on Windows it takes another couple minutes for all notification popups to show up one after another, as it has to play the animate-in and animate-out animations for each popup. At least with slack notifications.
This is bad for multiple reasons. Starting from obviously being annoying and plain distracting if you're working, to going to absolutely ruining message limit quotas on services that have them, like Pushbullet.
Proposal:
Make Medusa bundle multiple notifications into a single message. The simplest way I can think of would be making a 'queue' file or in-memory cache, that fills up with notifications and then some kind of separate 'notifier' thread that checks this queue every 5-10 seconds and if it finds notifications it bundles them and sends as one message and then clears the queue or removes sent notifications from the queue. This is the simplest way to implement it that I could think of. There can still be a separate 'immediate notification' function, but at the moment I can't really think of anything Medusa does that requires notifications to come exactly at the moment that 'something' happened. It can be delayed by 5-10 seconds, even a minute and no one would likely care.
Thanks for your attention.
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