qihang-dai/overwatch2_queuenotifier

send you discord notification or email notification when the game queue is done.

Overwatch 2 Queue Notifier

send you discord notification or email notification when the queue is done.

discord bot is not deployed on cloud so you need to host it yourself. checkout the dcbot branch

dev logs in notion here

Download .exe file

Small 16 MB file, though i add some big gif images to make it look better. compressed in zip file.

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Future features

1. add webhook for easily discord push notifications

How it works

Default Designed for windows 10, Overwatch2 1920x1080 resolution, but could be used for other game as long as you know the pixel position of the queue status.

1. the program will call the game window you want to be the foreground window, and then take a screenshot of the monitor (must be main monitor if you have multiple monitors).

2. then it will check the color of a pixel position you set in the screenshot every 5 seconds. if the color is not the same as the color of the pixel in the screenshot when the queue is not done then it will send you a notification.

By default it will send email from my registrated email address [email protected]. However gmail set a limit for 500 outgoing emails limit perday. Thus if you want to use your own email address, for gmail check Enabling SMTP Settings for a Gmail Inbox to generate an app password since gmail disabled the less secure app access (you can not directly use your gmail password to send email since 2022).

why images are in root folder?

when pack the app into a single exe file using pyinstaller, for the exe the images can only be accessed if they are in the root folder.

Its a bit tricky to make it work with images. solved by: pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --noconsole --add-data "hollow*;." --add-data "*.gif;." main.py stackOverflow

for light weight withoug big fif file, use pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --noconsole --add-data "hollow*;." -i "hollow.ico" main.py (set icon)

when use the pyinstaller, be sure to create a virtual environment and install all requried packages in the virtual environment. python -m venv venv and venv\Scripts\activate is enough. deactivate to go back to the base env.

otherwise the exe file will be very big. pipreqs that automatically generate requriements.txt somehow generate unnecessary packages and miss required packages in the requriments.txt file.