Local deploy to tidbyt - does app refresh?

[mattjones0111]

I have a question.

I've created an app and deployed it locally to my tidbyt. I don't think that the app is being refreshed (i.e. that main()) is not called) when the app cycles back around.

Is this behaviour expected? Does this change when the app is installed via the app store?

Thanks!

[Denton-L]

Yep, this is expected behaviour. And yes, it will rendered properly once it's published to the community repo. See the last paragraph in https://tidbyt.dev/docs/integrate/pushing-apps

Keep in mind though, the graphic associated with the installation will only change if you push a new one. If you really want to stay up to speed on the price of Bitcoin, you'll have to either keep pushing the graphic, or look into publishing your app. =)

[dinosaursrarr]

This is expected behaviour -- what you pushed to your tidbyt is an image file, not code. The code runs on your machine (or in tidbyt's cloud if published and installed via phone app), not the device. So to see something different, you need to re-render and push the new image.