Input monitor monitors /dev/input and records any user activity (mouse, keyboard, etc) for tracking active times at the computer.
This can be useful for single-user systems.
dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -tc
sudo dpkg -i ../input-monitor_1.0.4_all.deb
sudo apt purge input-monitor
> input-monitor-client etd --lunch-time-duration 45
+-------+----------------+---------------+
| ETD | First activity | Last activity |
+-------+----------------+---------------+
| 05:34 | 07:30 | 10:41 |
+-------+----------------+---------------+
ETD := First activity + 8 hours + -
> input-monitor-client summary -d 1
+------------+-------------+------------+----------------+---------------+
| Date | Active time | Total time | First activity | Last activity |
+------------+-------------+------------+----------------+---------------+
| 2020-11-03 | 04:52 | 07:25 | 07:36 | 15:02 |
| 2020-11-04 | 02:19 | 03:12 | 07:30 | 10:43 |
+------------+-------------+------------+----------------+---------------+
After the heading, the first meaningful line is the summary for yesterday, the second line is the summary for today, tracked so far.
By default the pretty-printed output is generated, but you can select the plain output format for easier post processing (with scripts).
Using plain output format for ETD prints the ETD only without the
first- and last activity.
> input-monitor-client --format plain etd --lunch-time-duration 45
08:33
Using plain output format for summary prints a TAB separated summary.
> input-monitor-client --format plain summary -d 0
2020-11-16 00:12 00:15 07:47 08:02
- option to choose resolution (in the beginning it was 60 seconds, then 5 seconds, now it is 1 second), this requires a config file, since this value is shared on the server-side
- config option in the client for required daily working time (default hard-coded setting is 8 hours)
- to be able to show all the summary records
- with DAYS 0/-1?
- detect if there are no more older records (for larger DAYS)
- this could speed up the "display" for larger look back times