How to install?

[BLACK4585]

I'm trying to install it, but regardless what I'm trying, the Steam Watcher never appears.
Could you please provide a complete Step-by-Step documentation?

[Edwardsoen]

Hi, the documentation is in Readme.md

[AidenMatthews1]

Having the same issue. Successfully installed through pip following the Readme.md but still not showing up when right clicking activity watch after restarting multiple times. I also tried the install procedure listed on the utilisation watcher after installing dependencies through pip but that also didnt work.

The readme doesnt include actually running the script. After poking around in the code a little to my (limited) knowledge the relative imports used will not work with automatic start unless python is explicitly told about the project which it will on the devs machine. related stack overflow explanation I used to understand code
The following error will be given when running the init on any machine that does not have the install directory included in path:
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

I managed to get a little further by manually going into powershell, navigating to #/ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-steam-master/aw_watcher_steam and entering "python main.py" which runs the script directly instead of through the init and changes some of the import settings allowing the script to get past the relative import problems.

At this point I dont have steamguard setup so cant get my API key and test if this entirely fixes the problem but It seems to run the script correctly where before it would immediately quit with an import error. The only downside is needing to manually run the script on startup but that should be able to be automated through windows.

[Milliw]

Copy this.
The installation procedure is lacking quite some information...

I managed to git clone this repo and then run the pip install command inside the directory.
The script then tells it has successfully installed the watcher but I don't see any folder on my device that contains similar files like the other watchers. Watcher does not get loaded on aw start.

I'm on Linux if that's important.

[Edwardsoen]

i will take a look at this issue and update the readme file this weekend

[marcinsmialek]

I can't get it to work too, despite that it looks like installed.
No rules match its timeline logs.

I'm using Python 3.12 on Windows with PDM, and I cloned the repo.

Installing as global from the repo's root folder didn't work: pdm install -g
However it worked from the parent folder: pdm install -g -p .\aw-watcher-steam\

After ActivityWatch restart, there was a plugin config to set up - uncomment and fill the values

ii "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\activitywatch\activitywatch\aw-watcher-steam\aw-watcher-steam.toml"

My aw-watcher-steam.toml (redacted)

[aw-watcher-steam]
steam_id = "12345678901234567"
api_key = "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F"
poll_time = 5.0

Autostarting plugin - add aw-watcher-steam to the aw-qt.toml autostart list, and uncomment it:

ii "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\activitywatch\activitywatch\aw-qt\aw-qt.toml"

My aw-qt.toml

[aw-qt]
autostart_modules = ["aw-server", "aw-watcher-afk", "aw-watcher-window", "aw-watcher-steam"]

aw-watcher-steam appears in the timeline view and it shows the game I was playing - name (HELLDIVERS™ 2) and id. Same with Darktide.

But I can't find a way to add a rule that would match the Steam games in general. No luck with rules matching a single game either - I tried both name and id.
ActivityWatch beta finds the game by itself by window name, but it's not the same.

[Edwardsoen]

But I can't find a way to add a rule that would match the Steam games in general.

Hi, sorry i dont quite understand what you are trying to do

[95276324]

yeah, i had installed and cant do the step 3, i click click on aw-watcher-steam several times but didnt work