Allow setting frequency of screenshots to reduce resource usage #70
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Yep makes sense! Will add to backlog |
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@JerryZLiu this feature will be very beneficial for people like me who are traveling and would like the Dayflow app to consume less laptop resources. Even going from 1 second to 3 seconds will consume significantly less resources with no significant degradation in LLM output. Please prioritize. |
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Are you running with Gemini or local models?
…On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM, Vikas Kedia < ***@***.*** > wrote:
@JerryZLiu ( https://github.com/JerryZLiu ) this feature will be very
beneficial for people like me who are traveling and would like the Dayflow
app to consume less laptop resources.
Even going from 1 second to 3 seconds will consume significantly less
resources with no significant degradation in LLM output.
Please prioritize.
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Gemini |
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For what it's worth lowering the frequency doesn't actually do much to reduce resources used. Apples screen sharing implementation is very efficient. But will prioritize!
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You make a good point that Apple screen sharing implementation is very efficient and there is no significant CPU usage. Please consider three additional dimensions: (i) Disk resource: less disk usage probably cut by 66% if I took a screenshot every 3 seconds. (ii) Network resource: smaller size of file transferred over the network to LLM for processing (iii) LLM cost: Less LLM cost if I exceed the free tier and need to use the paid tier. For my work I cannot think of a scenario where each second screenshot will capture some information for the LLM that each 3 second screenshot will miss. btw Congrats!! on such a beautiful and well thought out software. |
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I personally think (iii) LLM cost is the problem now. My Gemini API usage is full for this project alone in Free tier, no matter I'm using 2.5 Pro, Flash or Flash Lite. That force me to use Local LLM (recommended Qwen 2.5 3B) which its output seems much vague and not as useful as Gemini API. 
Wish there is a free-tier toggle that uses API within limit to prevent issue like this screenshot: 
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Pro is enough to run for 6 hours a day, flash should be good for 18 hours a day. Are you actually running into free tier limits?
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I personally think (iii) LLM cost is the problem now.
My Gemini API usage is full for this project alone in Free tier, no matter
I'm using 2.5 Pro, Flash or Flash Lite.
That force me to use Local LLM (recommended Qwen 2.5 3B) which its output
seems much vague and not as useful as Gemini API.
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Wish there is a free-tier toggle that uses API within limit to prevent
issue like this screenshot:
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@skyhong2002 it is interesting that you are running into free tier limits. Since I am not running into free tier limits with Gemini Pro. Maybe different countries get different free tier quotas? I registered my Gemini Free tier account/api from US. |
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@JerryZLiu Hi! Glad to see you! Really like Dayflow since Day 1. Yes I'm actually running into free tier limits. I was using 2.5 Pro at the starts, and I have average 4~10 hrs. screen time. So it's better to use flash instead (though Dayflow will automatically fallback but I face the issue which is confusing). @vikaskedia Wow that's interesting. Yes, I'm not from the US but from Taiwan. But no, I don't think the issue stems from different countries. I think it's more likely related to the project-level quota or model differences, not regional restrictions. (but I only use API for Dayflow) https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits Maybe I try to use another account to generate 2nd key for this at the moment ;p |
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Hmm, it detects when you're running into free tier limits and auto downgrades the models. you should never run into issues since flash-lite is basically infinite free usage. Can you use the copy debug logs if you see this again so I can investigate? |
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Of course... and 5 hours later after I use a brand new API in the same environments, same issue happens. @JerryZLiu I email-ed you the debug log, hope it helps. 
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Unfortunately it looks like you're getting 503's, which means that Google was not able to serve your request for whatever reason (probably because their servers are down/degraded). This is separate from 529's. 529 would indicate that you've been rate limited. So this is not a rate limiting issue. |
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Taking a screenshot every 1 second seems excessive. I usually don't switch tasks very frequently, I think once every 60 seconds would be sufficient since the contents of my screen doesn't change that much. Can you make this a configurable option?
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