Track Active Time in Pro Tools (Time Tracker)

@Jascha_Viehl & @danielkassulke, I'm creating a new thread for the idea @Jascha_Viehl had to track "idle time" in Pro Tools since it seemed to stray from @Andrew_Sherman's original post.

As food for thought on this, macOS can track "idle time" based on the last input received from a keyboard or mouse.

The main code for this is:

sf.system.exec({
        commandLine:
            `ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | awk '/HIDIdleTime/ {print $NF/1000000000; exit}'`
    }).result

↑ This gives you the time in seconds that keyboard and mouse activity has been inactive.

As an interesting experiment, here's a "run forever" script (example here) that will log "inactive" time once a minute after 5 minutes of inactivity.

function main() {
    let idleTime = Number(sf.system.exec({
        commandLine:
            `ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | awk '/HIDIdleTime/ {print $NF/1000000000; exit}'`
    }).result)

    if(idleTime > 300){
        log(`the computer has been idle for ${idleTime/60} minutes`)
    }
}

// Runforever script
// Example here : https://forum.soundflow.org/-989#post-7
function runForever(name, action, interval, timeout) {
    var now = (new Date).valueOf();
    if (now - globalState[name] < timeout) throw 0; //Exit if we were invoked again inside the timeout

    globalState[name] = now;
    sf.engine.runInBackground(function () {
        try {
            while (true) {
                sf.engine.checkForCancellation();
                globalState[name] = (new Date).valueOf();

                action();

                sf.wait({ intervalMs: interval, executionMode: 'Background' });
            }
        } finally {
            globalState[name] = null;
        }
    });
}

runForever("idleTimeTracker", main, 60000, 5000);

I do believe that runForever scripts may terminate if the computer sleeps, but you can always mess with adding a "caffeinate" command to this to avoid sleep.

// Caffeinate (Suspend Sleep Settings)
setTimeout(() => { sf.system.exec({ commandLine: `caffeinate -di &`, }) }, 100)
sf.wait({ intervalMs: 110 });