v1.2

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added new parameter (-z / --send_test_email_notification) which allows to send test email notification to verify SMTP settings defined in the script
• IMPROVE: Support for float type of timestamps added in date/time related functions
• IMPROVE: Function get_short_date_from_ts() rewritten to display year if show_year == True and current year is different, also can omit displaying hour and minutes if show_hours == False
• IMPROVE: Checking if correct version of Python (>=3.5) is installed
• IMPROVE: Possibility to define email sending timeout (default set to 15 secs)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string: unmatched (" issue in older Python versions
• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash" issue in older Python versions

v1.1

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Feature counting overall time and number of played games in the session
• NEW: Possibility to define STEAM_API_KEY via command line argument (-u / --steam_api_key)
• IMPROVE: Improvements for running the code in Python under Windows
• NEW: Possibility to define output log file name suffix (-y / --log_file_suffix)
• IMPROVE: Information about log file name visible in the start screen
• IMPROVE: Email sending function send_email() has been rewritten to detect invalid SMTP settings
• IMPROVE: Strings have been converted to f-strings for better code visibility
• IMPROVE: Better detection of wrong command line arguments
• IMPROVE: Rewritten get_date_from_ts(), get_short_date_from_ts(), get_hour_min_from_ts() and get_range_of_dates_from_tss() functions to automatically detect if time object is timestamp or datetime
• IMPROVE: Help screen reorganization
• IMPROVE: pep8 style convention corrections

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Improved exception handling while processing JSON files

v1.0

Initial steam_monitor v1.0 release. Features:

• Real-time monitoring of Steam users gaming activity (including detection when user gets online/offline or played games)
• Basics statistics for user activity (how long in different states, how long played game etc.)
• Email notifications for different events (player gets online/away/snooze/offline, starts/finishes/changes game, errors)
• Saving all gaming activity with timestamps to the CSV file
• Possibility to control the running copy of the script via signals

RELEASE NOTES:

• NEW: Support for short offline interruption, so if user gets offline and online again (for example due to rebooting the PC) during the next OFFLINE_INTERRUPT seconds (configurable in .py file) then we set online start timestamp back to the previous one
• IMPROVE: Additional information in the subject of email notifications

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixes for handling situations where some profile information is not available