Timer that can detect game usage
April 9, 2024, 14:22
Hey all. Trying to make a timer that when plugged in, times how long I've been playing a game and after a set time, say four hours, it'll start making a loud noise.
I've got the raspberry pi pico, a breadboard, headers, wires, speakers, soldering equipment. Now I just need to know what to start doing.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
do you know python?
sorry for the "little" delay, I know a minimal amount.
If you create a script that starts the game and it also have a start/stop of a timer before and after the game start.
ok, noted
I could just make your entire script right now but I don't want to spoon feed
So instead I'll just give you hints
Like: check the time module documentation
Which you can create a timer with
Come back to me once you manage to get it to print something after 10 minutes but not before
I am sorry
im having a major skill issue. Where should I go to learn how to do this?
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i followed Bro's Code's timer to the letter and got a timer that prints out a digitial clock display for each second. it can't go past into days but I don't need it to, only need it to keep time for four hours
Yeah
Great
now the main thing is how to make this timer only operate when playing a video game 🤔
So you have figured out how to also then print something only after a certain amount of time?
I think steam has an API
I'll check later
that uses the .sleep function right?
That is an option yes
:3 yippie!
The sleep function is in seconds btw
yup, you have to input time in seconds for this timer