my wiim home turns into an elephant...

[canard]

Can someone tell me the procedure for purging the Wiim Home ( android) cache which keeps growing for no reason other than the accumulation of updates?
(Couldn't the option be offered in Wiim Home?)
thank you
;-)

 

[slartibartfast]

you want try?
(for the little one I don't know but I had lost all my radio links...etc)
;-)

Well I don't have any radio links but I have certainly uninstalled and reinstalled a few times and my Amp PEQ settings are still there

 

[canard]

let's forget my little question...
and get back to basics... choice of clock, vu meter, fft... etc on ultra... !!!!

(but hey it's stupid... me just "plus" )
;-)

 

[Mr Ee]

Is it the cache or the logs?
I freed up somewhere around 350mb by uninstalling / reinstalling the wiim app, and it seemed to be mostly log files.
My old android tablet is back to being 'dangerously low on space'.

 

[taube Taube]

If you click clear cache the data will not be lost. To clear data, you need to click clear data, the application will return to the state after installation. I just cleared the cache 307 MB, everything is fine.

 

[canard]

If you click clear cache the data will not be lost. To clear data, you need to click clear data, the application will return to the state after installation. I just cleared the cache 307 MB, everything is fine.

I just did it "delete data"...
didn't lose my radio and my peqs
(but some preferences settings in "audio" etc not difficulte to correct..)
I was just looking for this option.... that s ok now

 

[harkpabst]

app 178mo
data 129mo
cache after "empty" 242k
total 307mo

This is very similar to what I see and honestly I don't see anything problematic here. Most importantly I cannot see the amount of storage growing just due to app updates.

I just did it "delete data"...
didn't lose my radio and my peqs
(but some preferences settings in "audio" etc not difficulte to correct..)
I was just looking for this option.... that s ok now

Most of the data is stored in the WiiM's internal storage, some other is stored in the WiiM Home app.

It's relatively easy to distinguish if you have more that one WiiM device, just by comparison. It also helps to remember that WiiM do not require you to use something like a WiiM account.

But this might be a good idea for a Tech Tuesday, @RyanWithWiim: What is stored on your WiiM, what's in the app?

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[canard]

by my non-use, it seems to me that wiim home stores the updates as they are downloaded without destroying them after their application...

 

[Burnside]

by my non-use, it seems to me that wiim home stores the updates as they are downloaded without destroying them after their application...

I think updates are downloaded straight to your device and don’t touch the app…

 

[canard]

for wiim home... not firmware

 

[Burnside]

for wiim home... not firmware

I don’t believe that’s how app updates work either - when you update, a new version overwrites the old one but retains its data.

 

[canard]

I don’t believe that’s how app updates work either - when you update, a new version overwrites the old one but retains its data.

it's not my field...
in any case I purged the "data", with practically no impact... and saved a lot of space...

 

[slartibartfast]

it's not my field...
in any case I purged the "data", with practically no impact... and saved a lot of space...

My user data and cache are fairly reasonable.

 

[canard]

the date of your last re-installation for wiim home?

 

[slartibartfast]

the date of your last re-installation for wiim home?

I can't remember. It was when I wanted to revert to an older version that WiiM had allowed me to download to check something. Probably sometime in the last couple of months.

 

[Wiimer]

Just by playing some music while displaying the WHA playback screen, the user data and cache will increase. Therefore, I think that track data accumulates in both user data and cache.

 

[Burnside]

Just by playing some music while displaying the WHA playback screen, the user data and cache will increase. Therefore, I think that track data accumulates in both user data and cache.

I took some screenshots of the app folders contents before and after clearing the app cache and data. Seems to be a mixture of logs and downloaded album artwork. If I get time, I’ll tabulate and post my findings.

 

[Wiimer]

I took some screenshots of the app folders contents before and after clearing the app cache and data. Seems to be a mixture of logs and downloaded album artwork. If I get time, I’ll tabulate and post my findings.

Will "Recent Searches" and "Recent Played" album art be added to user data?

 

[canard]

as a reminder my case was particular and interesting on this point...because it is only used in radio flow without use of the display (no data)... and that for example since yesterday and the purging of data and some re-adjustments...while in use, remains stable at 11MB of data and 2MB of cache....

but hey I just invite you to observe over time after the updates of wiim home on the data storage side.... your feedback will be interesting... but better, maybe well before wiim will be able to enlighten us on this point??
in my particular case, I know now what to do now from time to time after several updates ;-)