Background Jobs

Certain long running tasks are executed as background jobs. These tasks are managed by the battery service and running either autonomously or triggered by user actions.

Background Tasks in Steering

In the Django Admin for Steering at /steering/admin. You can a list of executed tasks under Steering > Worker Tasks.

Task	Description
`publish_message_to_nats`	Publishes messages to the NATS message bus.
`delete_unused_unmodified_episodes`	By default every broadcast has an episode assigned. These may be never used and need to be cleaned up.

Background Tasks in Battery

Navigate to the Django Admin for Battery at /battery/-/admin. You can get a list executed tasks under Tasks Database Backend > Task Results.

The following background tasks are available:

Task	Description
`media store - process_pipeline`	Uploads, analyzes and imports media files into the media store.
`cut & glue`	Automatically crops and concats block recordings into show recording files.

Media Store

The media store job is responsible for uploading, analyzing, transforming and importing media files into the media store.

It uses its own media processing pipeline, which can be inspected at /battery/media-store/pipeline-inspector.