emilpi/watch-yourself

A tool to watch and analyse your PC activity.

watch-yourself

A tool to watch and analyse your PC activity.

New contributors are most welcome! Anyone intersted in the topics below, please PM. This is solely open-source project. The purpose is to make people better reflect on how they spend time of their lives and raise self-awareness.

Want to see your daily computer usage reports? This tool is intended right for this! This tool currently

• Regularly makes photos with your webcam
• Regularly stores your currently opened window in the text file

DEPENDENCIES AND REQUIREMENTS:

Python 3 should be installed on system and python.exe should be added to your PATH.

COMMON:

• opencv-python

WINDOWS 10:

• pywin

TBD

1. Make reports of your daily PC usage
2. Make pruductivity predictions (concentration, sleepiness, bad habits etc.) and recommendations using machine learning on
   1. the sequence of your windows and
   2. the webcam photos.
3. Make windowed/tray icon app with user-friendly interface

INSTALLATION:

1. cd into this directory
2. run
   1. pip install -r requirements_linux.txt for Linux
   2. pip install -r requirements_windows.txt for Windows
   3. pip install -r requirements_mac.txt for Mac
3. Done

USAGE

Windows:

1. Right-click on blocker.py file
2. choose 'Open with...'
3. Select Python (find it in the programs list or locate python.exe binary)
4. Choose 'Always use this program to open .py files
5. Press Win + R keyboard shortcut
6. Type shell:startup in the appearing dialog and press ENTER
7. Drag blocker.py file onto this folder with right mouse/touchpad button, select Create shortcut from appearing menu

Now blocker.py will autostart each time you log in!

Antivirus configuration

• Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS)
  • on the first run of the script, KIS should prompt you to allow webcamera and other accesses. Unless you think differently, you should mark the flag to remember the decision for this application and click "Allow".
  Small details

  If you change the code of the script of code manually, KIS will re-ask you about script permissions.

Linux

Make this script autostart.

On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Gnome:

0. Make the script executable: chmod +x blocker.py
1. Press Super key
2. Start typing 'Startup Applications'
3. Press Add
4. Put some command title, and type gnome-terminal --working-directory=<FULL_PATH_TO_REPO_FOLDER> ./blocker.py into command field.
5. Press Add
6. Press Close

Now blocker.py will autostart each time you log in!

Settings

You can provide command-line parameters when running blocker.py or use profile.json file. Copy profile_example.json as profile.json and set parameters according to your needs (their names speak for themselves). By default, active window title and screenhost are saved when you close a window. If your webcamera does not return good photo, try setting use_v4l2_backend to true.

CHANGELOG

Version 0.1:

Version 0.2:

Added blocker script - only for Linux.

Version 0.2.1:

Added blocker script for MacOS too.

2021-07-08:

Multiple Windows implementation fixes, updated README.

watch-yourself's Issues

Make pypi package

Add Linux support.

Make Debian package

Add ability to collect screenshots

On startup, make script to run in a tray

Sometimes after suspend and resume webcamera screenshots are pitch black with some random discrete white lines/dots at the border

When script is restarted, all goes well again.

Make .msi installer for Windows