[DESKTOP] Lift 200 last entries limit for timeline

[abishai]

Desktops and some mobile devices can be rather powerful. I think, '200 last events' limit can be moved to program options. Also, maybe it's worth to ignore such limit for custom timeframes user can enter to avoid confusion.

Even if this is not the option for mobile users, maybe make 'last 200 events' clickable and reload page with all events available?

[pliablepixels]

@abishai can you clarify why this is confusing for custom timeframes? When you specify a custom timeframe, it takes the first 200 events in that custom timeframe

[abishai]

The idea of limits itself. For example, I want to see 1 day timeframe for a motion events on timeline. I hit '1 day' button on the top and ... with my 12 cameras with mocord mode I see only several hours :(

[pliablepixels]

right I get that. So its not related to custom timeframes, but limits in general - correct?

[abishai]

Yep. I understand the limit for default view (when user hit Timeline tab - to load it fast), but limit him if he want something custom seems to be wrong (cams were offline?, ohh, I have to scroll that day hourly). Well, that was exactly my thoughts :)

[pliablepixels]

I'm going to have to specify a limit. I'll keep it to 5000 for desktop clients. The reason it is there is not due to the client, but I just remembered that unlike the ZM Web console, zmNinja requests this data via APIs - keeping this infinite loads ZM too much

[pliablepixels]

More bad news, 5000 events slows the timeline view to a crawl, even when running on a good desktop system. I'll have to reduce it further

[abishai]

Bad news indeed.
Idea: left-right scrolling load additional events in current timeframe, if this can be coded without too much pain.

[pliablepixels]

closing this for now - its not feasible to completely remove

[abishai]

I tried 2000 limit on my Asus Transformed Book (with Intel Atom) and I can tell you, 2000 limit is too high for it, timeline loads, but scrolling or zooming is a complete disaster beyond usability. :(
Lighting fast on my Xeon WS though.

[pliablepixels]

I feared so - I'll keep it to 200 and add a developer option to increase it with warning text