Steam Auto Shutdown in Powershell

[Bulletproof]

Hi all,

I just finished my little project, and I'm excited to share it with you all!

I have implemented a PowerShell script called "Steam Auto-Shutdown" that monitors Steam downloads and automatically shuts down your system once all downloads are completed. This tool is especially useful for users who want to leave their computer unattended while downloading large game files.

The script includes a user-friendly GUI to display the status of downloads and shutdown, and it generates a log file to record the shutdown events.

I invite you all to try it out, and I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions you might have. You can download the script from the GitHub link I will provide below.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/daddel80/Valve-Steam-Auto-Shutdown

Let the downloads roll, and happy gaming! ;-)
Thomas

[frO_hun]

finally i don't have to wait until the download is finished. thanks for the script. works as expected

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Originally posted by BJWyler:

It is generally frowned upon to advertise like this in the forums. I have seen similar threads deleted by moderation and the posters received warnings.

Open source stuff directly related to the platform is kind of a grey area from what I've seen. Though this is likely going to get moved or deleted regardless because it's not the proper forum.

This kind of thing gets asked about quite often and would be useful to a lot of people. Hopefully moderators are able to appreciate the distinction between something like this and someone trying to promote their crappy Youtube channel.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by Reggaeјunkiеdrew:

Originally posted by BJWyler:

It is generally frowned upon to advertise like this in the forums. I have seen similar threads deleted by moderation and the posters received warnings.

Open source stuff directly related to the platform is kind of a grey area from what I've seen. Though this is likely going to get moved or deleted regardless because it's not the proper forum.

This kind of thing gets asked about quite often and would be useful to a lot of people. Hopefully moderators are able to appreciate the distinction between something like this and someone trying to promote their crappy Youtube channel.

It has to be a universal stance, which is why it states in the rules specifically that there is to be no advertising on the forums, otherwise you'll end up with every scammer under the sun advertising their poisoned links and websites.

If someone wants to make helpful programs and apps for Steam, there are already proper places and ways to do so - which don't include the forums.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Originally posted by BJWyler:

Originally posted by Reggaeјunkiеdrew:

Open source stuff directly related to the platform is kind of a grey area from what I've seen. Though this is likely going to get moved or deleted regardless because it's not the proper forum.

This kind of thing gets asked about quite often and would be useful to a lot of people. Hopefully moderators are able to appreciate the distinction between something like this and someone trying to promote their crappy Youtube channel.

It has to be a universal stance, which is why it states in the rules specifically that there is to be no advertising on the forums, otherwise you'll end up with every scammer under the sun advertising their poisoned links and websites.

If someone wants to make helpful programs and apps for Steam, there are already proper places and ways to do so - which don't include the forums.

Hard disagree, context and intention matters and is often plainly obvious. Plenty of the rules are clearly enforced in this manner. Eg, posting copyrighted material could be enforced extremely broadly to mean any youtube link with music or video game footage. I don't think discussion of alcohol is very strongly enforced either.

If you really want to get technical though, the rules don't say anything specifically about "self promotion". "Soliciting, begging, auctioning, raffling, selling, advertising, referrals". I think you could make a strong argument that a piece of free software on github doesn't fall under any of those. The only one it could fall under is advertising. Generally advertising refers to a commercial product or at the very least something being montetized. Calling a link to an open source program on a github page advertising is the most ungenerous interpretation imaginable of the term.

The forums seem like a great place for stuff like this that is actually beneficial to people in the community. It's not particularly useful to me, but provides a hell of a lot more value than the endless threads of people complaining about one thing or another.

[Lord frecho]

I have been looking for such a programme for a long time and have now found it, thank you for writing it .
(this programme has worked very well)