Appium-desktop: Appium inspector does not keep the session active

[CAPie]

• [x] I have verified that my issue does not occur with Appium and should be investigated as an Appium Desktop issue

The problem

issue is related to: https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/issues/498
Appium inspector does not keep the session active.

Steps to reproduce:

User use Appium inspector connected to Custom server.
After 5 mins of inactivity appears some popup which asks user what to do with current session.
Problem appears if user haven't seen that popup

Session Inactive
Your session is about to expire
buttons: [quit session] [keep session]

Because of coding in other window

After returning to Appium inspector user see:

Error
Session closed due to inactivity

I've tried to set the newCommandTimeout: 1800 (30 min) in desiredCapabilities. Still the same.

As I understand this solution is required for some cloud services (like BrowserStack)

Possible solution:

• Do not interrupt session due to inactivity for "Automatic Server" and "Custom Server" cause it's not needed.
• Add some CLI flag to be able to run Appium inspector with different inactivity timeout.
• Parse newCommandTimeout from desiredCapabilities and use it as inactivity timeout.

Environment

• I am running Appium Desktop version _1.10.0 (1.10.0.20181230.2)_.
• I am on (pick one):
  
  
  
  • [x] Mac
  
  
  • Probably other envs have the same issue
  
  

[dpgraham]

Yeah, I need to revisit this. This feature seems to have problems.

[Vijayabaskar03]

Yeah, this is a bit annoying since my app clears the session details everytime it is launched, so I have to login everytime Appium closes the session.

[dpgraham]

This will be in next version. I've set the timeout to 24 hours instead of 5 minutes.