Genshin Stopwatch

A program to help keep track of Genshin Impact's time gates.

What does Genshin Stopwatch do?

Genshin Stopwatch is a program that makes checking timers easier without launching the game (Examples: Stamina, Fishing, Gardening, Enemy Respawns, Parametric Transformer, etc...).

The only caviat is that you have to start the stopwatch yourself!

How does it work?

Genshin Stopwatch is a program that does not require an internet connection to use. When you start up the program it will calculate the difference between when you started the program and when the destination of said timer is.

You can run the program in the background or disable it in the settings if you want.

The program is accessible through the system tray (Up arrow next to the volume mixer) when running in the background.

When a stopwatch finishes, a desktop notification will be played (Check your windows notification and focus assist settings to make sure they will go off.)

When you create a stopwatch or close the application, your stopwatches will save to the save.txt file. The save file is easily configurable and easy to read.

Here is an example of a stopwatch's save data in save.txt:

[2589221199520] <- This is a unique ID, this is for the computer to read and shouldn't be changed by the user!
name = Parametric Transformer
time finished = 2023-05-28 11:34:14
time original duration = 168:00:00
border color = #37AA9C
notes =

What platforms is this compatible with?

At the moment only Windows machines can run this program, I'm not sure if I plan on making mobile versions.
There are plans to support Linux and MacOS. (see #8)

It doesn't work!

• Check save.txt and make sure it looks in a similar format to the example above.
• The program needs save.txt and config.ini to start, so if there isn't one in the directory create a text file with the same name or redownload the program.
• Genshin Stopwatch only works on Windows.
• Check config.ini and make sure it looks similar to when you downloaded the program.
• If notifications aren't working, go to action center and manage notifications. Focus assist settings can disable notifications when they happen under certain conditions.
• If you updated your stopwatch version, please make sure the config.ini and save.txt has matching settings with the version you're using. Or just replace the whole file.

Does this program run on system startup?

Yes! But you have to do a couple steps to do so, follow the instructions below.

How to run program on system startup:

1. Create a shortcut of the .exe
2. Press win + r
3. Type in shell:startup this will take you to your startup directory
4. Place the shortcut in folder

You can disable run on startup by going to task manager -> startup

If you found a bug or crash, please report it to me and show how to replicate the issue if possible.
Before submitting a bug report please check the known bugs in the release notes before telling me.

Future Plans?

• Touch up on the UI a tiny bit for more clarity
• MacOS/Linux Support
• Increase usefulness of stamina category (Asking how much stamina you want before being notified which will be max by default)
• Slightly better notifications
• Make a guide on which timer is used for by showing examples
• Color Themes?
• Background pictures to choose from for the timers?
• Mobile version? (Hard maybe)

If you have a suggestion let me know!

Contributing

If you want to Contribute you can as long as I have an issue posted its up for grabs! Just make a fork and submit a pull request of your contribution.

Credits

Thanks to PyQt5 for making an open source easy-to-use framework.

Thanks to Win10toast for making it easy to include deskstop notifications. (And for including threading so I don't have to)

Pyinstaller for creating a way to change python programs into an exe