[phone-connect][BUG] High CPU usage when media is playing on the phone

[jinliu]

Submission checklist

• I have searched existing issues and confirmed this is not a duplicate.
• I am using the latest available version of Noctalia and of the plugin.
• This is a bug in a community plugin, not in Noctalia itself (those belong in the noctalia repo).

Plugin

phone-connect

Plugin version

0.1.2

Bug description

Noctalia CPU usage is normally ~2%. But when a phone is connected and playing media, it's constantly ~15%.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start playing media on the phone.

Expected behavior

No significant change of Noctalia CPU usage.

Actual behavior

Noctalia CPU usage goes up to ~15%.

Logs / error output

Noctalia version

v5.0.0 (6376a05)

Compositor

Niri

Environment information

Additional context

No response

[github-actions]

CC @CSY2569

[jinliu]

I found that when update_interval is set to 1s (the rate when media is playing), it has the same CPU usage. So this is more of a general efficiency problem, unrelated to media.

EDIT: And since the control-center panel has the same media information via MPRIS, one possible solution is to just remove the media widget (and thus not refreshing at 1Hz when media playing).