Online to Offline status after a few hours

[DLC-EM_exchangebot]

I noticed my bots go from online(in custom game, using client.gamesPlayed) to offline status after a few hrs.
it can still receive messages and recognizes the commands and all,  it still functions as it should be even tho it's in offline status
it still processes any trades being sent to it
I even added a setInterval function for client.gamesPlayed every 1 hr and when it goes offline, I wait for the interval to refresh the client.gamesPlayed part and it doesn't work

[Dr. McKay]

If Steam forgot you were in-game, you wouldn't go offline; you'd go online but not in-game. You probably want to try calling setPersona in your interval instead.

That said, I've never experienced this. Can you show the code in your loggedOn event?

[DLC-EM_exchangebot]

here sir

function login(err) {
 if (err) {
  return process.exit(5);
 }
 client.on('loggedOn', function() {
  return client.setPersona(1, account.botDisplayName)
}

should I replace my client.gamesPlayed in my interval? or should I call setPersona first before calling client.gamesPlayed

[Dr. McKay]

That code as written should work, but:

1. It looks like you'll be adding a new loggedOn listener every time you call login. That's not a problem if login is only called once, but I kind of doubt that's the case from this snippet.
2. That return statement isn't doing anything.
3. It's not necessary to pass your desired persona name every time. If you don't pass any name, Steam won't change your name.
4. It's recommended to reference the enums rather than using the literal value. So in this case, client.setPersona(SteamUser.EPersonaState.Online)
5. Where do you call gamesPlayed()?

[DLC-EM_exchangebot]

function login(err) {
 if (err) {
  return process.exit(5);
 } else {
  client.on('loggedOn', function() {
   client.setPersona(1, account.botDisplayName)
  });
  client.gamesPlayed("some strings here")
 }
}

setInterval(() => {
 client.gamesPlayed("some strings here")
}, 1000 * 60 * 60)

 

[Dr. McKay]

You should be calling gamesPlayed inside of your loggedOn event. It really shouldn't be necessary to call it from an interval.

[DLC-EM_exchangebot]

After a few hrs with using that, my bots don't go offline but one of them keeps crashing with SIGKILL error from forever logs eventhough my server is running at 50% on average