AFK Detection

[NMS]

What I have right now is a script that locks down the system if I'm away for certain period of time. At the moment I'm checking for mouse/keyboard input however this poses a couple of issues when I'm watching a movie for example.

I thought about pixel checking however this might interfere with another function I have that changes wallpaper occasionally.

Checking for window titles is not very efficient and some of them don't even provide any string that would contain any usable information.

So I'm looking for ideas. Perhaps someone here has faced something similar. Maybe there's a way to check if a video is being played via GPU utilization but that's not perfect either.

[rcmaehl]

Check powercfg /requests. Things that don't require user input, but prevent the computer from sleeping are listed there.

Edited 2 hours ago by rcmaehl

[argumentum]

Detect if there is sound playing.

[NMS]

1 hour ago, argumentum said:

Detect if there is sound playing.

That wouldn't work as I often put music on.

1 hour ago, rcmaehl said:

Check powercfg /requests. Things that don't require user input, but prevent the computer from sleeping are listed there.

That is not something I have considered at all before. I'll look into it once home and see how that goes!