04-25-2021, 08:58 AM
is there a way for playnite to track playtime when a game is launched for instance roblox when it is launched from the website and not playnite
04-25-2021, 08:58 AM
is there a way for playnite to track playtime when a game is launched for instance roblox when it is launched from the website and not playnite
04-25-2021, 09:14 AM
Playnite will tracks process tree of manually added games. This works just fine in most cases, but specifically in case of browsers, it will usually not work because of the way browser processes are started when opening external URL. It will only work reliably (mostly, depends on a browser used) if the browser is not running before opening the web page and then the whole browser has to close, not just the game page, for tracking to stop.
04-25-2021, 10:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-25-2021, 10:35 AM by turtleship_.)
(04-25-2021, 09:14 AM)Crow Wrote: Playnite will tracks process tree of manually added games. This works just fine in most cases, but specifically in case of browsers, it will usually not work because of the way browser processes are started when opening external URL. It will only work reliably (mostly, depends on a browser used) if the browser is not running before opening the web page and then the whole browser has to close, not just the game page, for tracking to stop.Is there a way to choose what browser to open a URL in? For example, use chrome for everything else, then launch roblox from edge or opera, for example. Then you can track the opening and closing of the other browser, without having to close your main browser.
04-25-2021, 11:01 AM
Yes, just run browser exe with arguments to launch specific url. You'll have to find out what those arguments are, I don't think it's universal for all browsers.
04-26-2021, 04:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2021, 04:08 AM by CriticalComposer.)
This is what my Roblox Play Action looks like
Path: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe A word of advice though, Playnite seems to only track new instances of a process. So if this specific version of Firefox is already running then you'll get the Roblox site in a new tab but Playnite will not track the time. A workaround is to either write a script in Playnite to close your browser before launching the game or install a dedicated browser for Roblox, this could either be a different browser than you primary or a portable version of your primary (PortableApps.com is the best way to go about this). Note 2: That kiosk argument only works for Firefox. If you want to launch your browser without the menus bars (address, bookmarks, menus, etc) then you'll need to look that up on a per browser basis. Chrome and Edge can make webapps that you can force as Fullscreen and that should work similarly.
02-17-2022, 04:59 PM
Since I play many browser games, I use Firefox as an emulator
First I created a new Firefox Profile using Run command: Opened Run (Windows+R)
Created a folder to import the urls:
On Playnite I created a new emulator On Library Manager (Ctrl+W):
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