Here's a little script I wrote to track when a PC is being used or not, and change a boolean in HomeAssistant based on that. I use it to enhance room-prescence detection, as bluetooth tracking is not very reliable when it comes to tracking RSSI.

• Remove webcam based face detection
• Use pdm for dependencies management

Currently only Windows is supported, Linux support will come some day.

1. If you don't have it yet, download Python 3.10 from python.org and install it.
2. Install pdm from https://pdm.fming.dev/latest/
3. Install dependencies with pdm install
4. Open config.yaml and enter your HomeAssistant API URL. Could be an IP or a domain name.
5. Go to your HomeAssistant -> Profile -> and generate a long lived token
6. Paste it into config after token:... Well, if you use HomeAssistant you should know YAML :D
7. Adjust other parameters to your liking
8. In the shell type pdm run python pc_idle.py and hit enter.

You can also use Windows Scheduler to schedule it to start on boot or login. (Use pythonw.exe to hide the window)