This program helps you keep track of your PS4 gaming habits. It will create an iCalendar file which contains timespans from the time you were playing.

The tools Python, ps4-wake and jq are needed for this process. ps4-wake will be built by running build.sh. jq for JSON parsing and Python can be obtained by your distribution.

Install build-essentials (for make), pip, jq from your distribution

1. Install Prerequisites
2. Run build.sh
3. Copy the resulting ps4-wake to your bin path i.e. /usr/bin
4. Install the Python requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt.

Run ps4watch.sh in very short frequency to track what game your PS4 is running at the time. After an amount of time the log file will fill with dates:

2016-08-12T14:55+0000,null,null
2016-08-12T15:00+0000,null,null
2016-08-12T15:05+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:10+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:15+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:20+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:25+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:30+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:35+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:40+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:45+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:50+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T15:55+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T16:00+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T16:05+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T16:10+0000,"Pro Evolution Soccer 2016","CUSA02640"
2016-08-12T16:15+0000,"Destiny","CUSA00219"
2016-08-12T16:20+0000,"Destiny","CUSA00219"
2016-08-12T16:25+0000,"Destiny","CUSA00219"
2016-08-12T16:30+0000,"Destiny","CUSA00219"

You can generate calendar entries in ics format by running parseTimeSpans.py ps4watch.log calendar.ics.

Run ps4ical.sh to calculate time-spans and to generate an ics file out of it. Adapt it to your needs. Currently it contains a statement for FTP uploading to my server.

makeScore.sh is also a utilty custom made for my needs, which will generate a top 10 list of my top games and will notify me whenever a different game enters or moves up the top 10.

If you're subscribing to this calendar, you will get a nice output:

Additionally a file called statistics.csv is generated which summarizes all minutes that you played one particular game.

The following crontab setting will run ps4watch.sh every 5 minutes between 10pm till 2am and every half hour between 3 am and 9 pm.

*/5 10-23 * * * ps4watch.sh
*/5 0-2 * * * ps4watch.sh
*/30 3-9 * * * ps4watch.sh