distant vine
Note I’m not sure if this is dashboard, core or hardware or other section…
Since updating to 2025.4.4 I seem to have borked my 5yo fire 7 dashboard - it’s had bad performance for a few years but now it is completely unusable.
Is this a known/expected issue with latest version, should I just swallow it and buy a new tablet, is there anything else I can do?
Fire (2013?) 7 running lineage, up to date fully kiosk browser.
Thanks!
Cleared cache, rebooted tab and HA, etc. happily consider other troubleshooting
muted steeple
A lot of times when people complain about tablet performance, the fix (usually) is to update Webview. I don't know what exactly it is but it is a system component. Since you're running LineageOS, maybe the tablet just needs a system update. I did some Googling and came across the following thread. (I forgot about LineageOS and was just searching for FireOS at the time.)
Switch to Android WebView from Amazon
Posts 9 & 13 seem relevant to FireOS with Post 14 mentioning LineageOS.
distant vine
Thanks, I’ll give this a go…
Still Not sure why performance only completely fell off a cliff after my recent updates- I also updated all my esphome devices, other firmware and HAOS, addons, tweaked /added some automations after a few months of not touching the stuff., so trial and error troubleshooting might be tricky!!
I can’t find anything in changelogs that indicated Lovelace or any custom frontend components have had any real changes.
It’s affecting all dashboards too if I load on this device not just my standard simple tablet one
silver brook
@distant vine Did you find any solution? I had my fully functioning Acer Android tablet just breaking a couple of days ago. It just freezes as soon as it's starting to load the dashboard. Worked as a charm but slow before that. Tried everything you mentioned and now installed fully it on an old Samsung phone with the same results.
With Fully Kiosk browser, seems to almost work in chrome
Nevermind the phone started working with updates to chrome (guess the webview) and I can't get the tablet to update either webview or chrome so have to start looking for a new old one...
distant vine
I’ve not managed to sort it no, just no time! I’ll hope to find a compatible updated web view apk and test…
i had another old fire 7 I’ve tried FK on and it’s slow as expected but much better than this sudden broken one.
The broken one is blocked from the internet too, so it seems more likely to be a change to the HA stuff - i heard Paulus on the ha podcast talking about css updates which… to my uneducated brain… might mean that those invisible-to-user changes have borked the v old version of web view I think I’m running.
silver brook
Think I read that they need to change some material framework because it's not updated anymore. Might have something to do with that then.
pliant ocean
One suggestion I'll make for dashboard perf issues is head over to developer-tools/events, and start listening to * events, and see what happens. If you're getting very very rapid events (like every second or more), see if there are any really unnecessarily chatty entities that are updating very frequently. That could stress the frontend.
Disable whatever entities that you might not use.
silver brook
That was advice I needed! Thank you @pliant ocean , I think i had at least over 30 messages per second 😳 need to start deactivating. Think I have to dig in some of my templates that don't need to fire all the time either.