Realtime for files() works almost well, but for tablesDB it does not

I have been trying to make use of realtime, today (14.03.26) I have pulled all the latest versions of docker images, and sdk available.

Whats working:

• Connection via websockets
• Ping-pong in appwrite console
• Ping-pong between my localhost app and the console
• Channels.files() subscription receives wss updates

What's not working:

• tablesdb subscription does not work at all
• (response) => {} is not being called anyway

My setup:

• selfhosted appwrite on backend.mydomain.com
• tanstack-start client

const client = new Client();
client
    .setEndpoint(ENDPOINT)
    .setProject(PROJECT_ID);
export const account = new Account(client);
export const tablesDb = new TablesDB(client);
export const storage = new Storage(client);
export const realtime = new Realtime(client);

and for testing realtime I have a window when I can CRUD db entries, and also upload files. This is how i set up realtime for listening to tablesDb:

async function realtimeFn() {
  const subscription = await realtime.subscribe(Channel.tablesdb(DATABASE).table('genres').row(), response => {
      console.log(response.timestamp);
  });
  setActiveSub(subscription);
}

<button onClick={realtimeFn}>Subscribe</button>
<button onClick={() => activeSub?.close()}>Unsubscribe</button>

now when i hit subscribe, I can see the following messagess in devtools (see attachment):

• type: connected with data being channels, and user: null
• type: authentication, with data: <session token>
• type: response to authentication: success - true
• keepalive (ping-pong) ongoing

When I change name (for example the 'Blues2' folder to 'Blues') nothing is happening. No wss message received, nor the response callback is triggered.

It works quite different when working with files. I can change my function to listen to Channels.files():

async function realtimeFn() {
  const subscription = await realtime.subscribe(Channel.files(), response => {
      console.log(response.timestamp);
  });
  setActiveSub(subscription);
}

and as before i get connection, auth, and auth response, and ping-pong keepalive ongoing. But now when I for example upload or delete a file, I get the websocket message.

But either way, the response => {console.log(response.timestamp)} is never triggered.

Here is the screenshot for Channels.files() subscription

and for Channels.tablesdb..... nothing happends other than just keepalive

I have the row security turned on, and create set to any role. When creating files in db I pass required permissions

const result = await database.create(data, {
    permissions(permission, role) {
        return [
            permission.write(role.user(userId)),
            permission.read(role.user(userId)),
            permission.update(role.user(userId)),
            permission.delete(role.user(userId)),
        ]
    },
})

So based on my experience, there has been a slightly improvement to the realtime recently, but not everything works quite well, at least on self hosted instances.

Realtime for files() works almost well, but for tablesDB it does not