v1.8

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: Suppressed transient connection error messages (first 2 occurrences are hidden) to reduce log clutter
• IMPROVE: Enhanced startup process and user information display mode with interactive step-by-step progress updates

v1.7

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: Enhanced PSNAWP session management with better error handling and cooldown logic

v1.6

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added detailed user information display mode (-i / --info flag), providing comprehensive PlayStation profile insights including PlayStation/PSN IDs, PS+ status, platform, about me, online status, availability to play, verification status, languages, friendship relation, profile URL and recently played games (name, last played, overall time)
• NEW: Added display of trophy summary and last earned trophies in user information display mode (--trophies flag, only works with -i/--info)
• IMPROVE: Enhanced user information display in monitoring mode to include availability to play, verification status, languages, friendship relation and profile URL
• IMPROVE: Added possibility to disable fetching of recently played games list (--no-recent-games flag, only works with -i/--info)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Enhanced connection error handling and notification for NPSSO token expiry
• BUGFIX: Added error streak detection to identify silent NPSSO token expiry during monitoring runs

v1.5.1

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed config file generation to work reliably on Windows systems

v1.5

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: The tool can now be installed via pip: pip install psn_monitor
• NEW: Added support for external config files, environment-based secrets and dotenv integration with auto-discovery
• IMPROVE: Enhanced startup summary to show loaded config and dotenv file paths
• IMPROVE: Simplified and renamed command-line arguments for improved usability
• NEW: Implemented SIGHUP handler for dynamic reload of secrets from dotenv files
• IMPROVE: Added configuration option to control clearing the terminal screen at startup
• IMPROVE: Changed connectivity check to use Sony endpoint for reliability
• IMPROVE: Added check for missing pip dependencies with install guidance
• IMPROVE: Allow disabling liveness check by setting interval to 0 (default changed to 12h)
• IMPROVE: Improved handling of log file creation
• IMPROVE: Refactored CSV file initialization and processing
• IMPROVE: Added support for ~ path expansion across all file paths
• IMPROVE: Added validation for configured time zones
• IMPROVE: Refactored code structure to support packaging for PyPI
• IMPROVE: Enforced configuration option precedence: code defaults < config file < env vars < CLI flags
• IMPROVE: Updated horizontal line for improved output aesthetics
• IMPROVE: Email notifications now auto-disable if SMTP config is invalid
• IMPROVE: Minimum required Python version increased to 3.10
• IMPROVE: Removed short option for --send-test-email to avoid ambiguity

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Re-login PSNAWP on RemoteDisconnected errors
• BUGFIX: Fixed issue where manually defined LOCAL_TIMEZONE wasn't applied correctly
• BUGFIX: Improved exception handling to prevent crashes during unexpected errors

v1.4

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added new parameter (-z / --send_test_email_notification) which allows to send test email notification to verify SMTP settings defined in the script
• IMPROVE: Support for float type of timestamps added in date/time related functions
• IMPROVE: Function get_short_date_from_ts() rewritten to display year if show_year == True and current year is different, also can omit displaying hour and minutes if show_hours == False
• IMPROVE: Checking if correct version of Python (>=3.9) is installed
• IMPROVE: Possibility to define email sending timeout (default set to 15 secs)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string: unmatched (" issue in older Python versions
• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash" issue in older Python versions

v1.3

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Feature counting overall time and number of played games in the session
• NEW: Support for short offline interruption, so if user gets offline and online again (for example due to rebooting the console) during the next OFFLINE_INTERRUPT seconds (configurable in .py file, by default 7 mins) then we set online start timestamp back to the previous one + we also keep stats from the previous session (like total time and number of played games)
• IMPROVE: Information about log file name visible in the start screen
• IMPROVE: Rewritten get_date_from_ts(), get_short_date_from_ts(), get_hour_min_from_ts() and get_range_of_dates_from_tss() functions to automatically detect if time object is timestamp or datetime

v1.2

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: Improvements for running the code in Python under Windows
• NEW: Automatic detection of local timezone if you set LOCAL_TIMEZONE variable to 'Auto' (it is default now); requires tzlocal pip module
• IMPROVE: Information about time zone is displayed in the start screen now
• IMPROVE: Better checking for wrong command line arguments
• IMPROVE: Email sending function send_email() has been rewritten to detect invalid SMTP settings
• IMPROVE: Strings have been converted to f-strings for better code visibility
• IMPROVE: Info about CSV file name in the start screen
• IMPROVE: In case of getting an exception in main loop we will send the error email notification only once (until the issue is resolved)
• IMPROVE: Exception handling for function converting the timezone
• IMPROVE: Last seen info has been removed as it is redundant and already covered by other part of the code (last time user was available)
• IMPROVE: Platform info is put into subject of game change emails now
• IMPROVE: pep8 style convention corrections

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Handling situations when JSON file storing info about the last status gets corrupted or when there are issuing saving the state
• BUGFIX: Handling situations when platform is returned empty

v1.1

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: After some testing it turned out "busy" status is not reported by PSN, so it leaves us only with online & offline; that's why "-s" parameter and corresponding code has been removed

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixes for detecting situations where reported user status is empty
• BUGFIX: Cleaning the code related to capitalization of reported user status

v1.0

Initial psn_monitor v1.0 release. Features:

• Real-time monitoring of Playstation users gaming activity (including detection when user gets online/offline or played games)
• Basics statistics for user activity (how long in different states, how long played game etc.)
• Email notifications for different events (player gets online/offline, starts/finishes/changes game, errors)
• Saving all gaming activity with timestamps to the CSV file
• Possibility to control the running copy of the script via signals

RELEASE NOTES:

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Periodic refreshing of PSN NPSSO token
• IMPROVE: Additional information in the subject of email notifications

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixes for handling situations where some profile information is not available