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Do not allow playtime activities during school times

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I would like to disallow running playtime activities during online school times. This means that the child should use the computer freely during online schooling so that not time accounting is done in those periods, however playtime activities should not be allowed during those periods. Is this something that can be achieved in the current implementation?

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Eduards Bezverhijs (mjasnik) said : 		#1

It's not possible to limit PlayTime activities at specific times as PT was designed as limit within the limit.

Probably I can implement a checkbox that PlayTime activities are not allowed during so called "freeride" hours when time is not accounted towards users limit, would this address the question?

But I need to think about it, it just gets quite complicated at the end :)

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Peter (petru-severin) said : 		#2

Yes, such a checkbox would work. I am not sure if there is a better approach. Perhaps Playtime it should be possible to manage Playtime limits separately, but this probably requires more thinking.

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Eduards Bezverhijs (mjasnik) said : 		#3

If all options are taken into account, this already is quite complicated not just from programming perspective, but for user too.

I'll think about the most easy to understand approach, when I'll have time.

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Eduards Bezverhijs (mjasnik) said : 		#4

Feature released as beta.

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Peter (petru-severin) said : 		#5

Thanks! I didn't try this feature yet as there is a school vacation. I'll try it some time later and see how it works.

Before this solution was added what I did was to set Platytime limit to 0 and then added some cron tasks that run after the school hours end and set the playtime to the desired value using "--setplaytimeleft" command line option. It works ok although this means that settings related to school times should now be maintained 2 different places.

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