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HomeWatch

A lightweight social addon for World of Warcraft player housing that tracks guests, logs visits, greets visitors, and brings your home to life.
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Description

🏠 HomeWatch — Your Home, Your Guests, Your Story

HomeWatch tracks who visits your home, how long they stay, and when you visit others—all wrapped in a warm, lore-friendly presentation. Whether you're hosting open houses, welcoming friends, or simply curious who stopped by, HomeWatch gives your home a sense of life and continuity.

🧰 Slash Commands

/homewatch — opens the Guest Book

✨ Features

πŸ“– Guest Book (6 Tabs)

Current Guests · Guest Log · My Visits · Stats · Help · Options

πŸ‘₯ Guest Tracking

  • Live Current Guests list with elapsed timers
  • Arrival and departure detection via system messages, group roster, and nameplate radar
  • Room-transition safe (10-second grace period)
  • Guest notes per visit, with a whisper button and note button on every guest row

πŸ““ Guestbook Integration

Works alongside the Guestbook addon (by HousingNotes) — prompts you to sign when visiting a home that has it installed. Show popup, Autosign, or Ignore; never fires on your own home.

πŸ—ΊοΈ Minimap Button

Left-click opens the Guest Book · Right-click opens My Homes · Drag to reposition

🏑 My Homes

  • Register multiple homes and set a friendly nickname for each
  • [nickname] and [nickname2] tokens resolve silently — no leftover punctuation if not set
  • Update a home's address from inside the instance with one click

πŸŽ‰ Open House Mode

  • Show My House button starts an Open House from the Current Guests tab
  • Guests who join your raid group receive a customizable greeting whisper
  • Timed Message and Timed Message 2 — send a follow-up whisper (or two) after a configurable delay; each cancels if the guest leaves early
  • Guests who leave receive a customizable thank-you whisper
  • Publicize Open House — announce to any combination of Guild, General, Trade, and WoW Community channels, with a preview/edit popup before posting
  • All Open House events logged with date, duration, peak attendance, and full participant list

🐾 Pet Greeter

  • Summons a companion pet when you arrive at your own home and dismisses it on exit—but only if HomeWatch summoned it
  • Random, random from favorites, or a specific pet; per-home overrides supported

πŸ“Š Statistics & Export

  • Per-home visit counts, most frequent visitor, longest stay, busiest hour, and more
  • Export Guest Log, My Visits, Stats Summary, or Open House Events as CSV—perfect for RP journals or event records

πŸ›‘οΈ ToS-Friendly by Design

  • No automation, no input injection, no silent data collection
  • Whisper-only greetings—ToS-safe across all housing zones

πŸ’¬ Welcome & Thank You Whispers

  • Customizable whispers on arrival and departure
  • Full token support: [name], [host], [owner], [address], [nickname], [address2], [nickname2]
  • Test whisper button sends a preview to yourself

πŸ“¦ Requirements

World of Warcraft Retail · Patch 12.0.7+ (The War Within / Midnight)

πŸ“ Credits

  • Author: Blodwedd Mallory
  • Questions or feedback: blodweddmallory.com/contact

Special thanks to the WoW housing community for early testing and feedback.

The HomeWatch Team

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Blodwedd is 20 years old in game years and her person has played WoW since BC, back in the days when choosing the right server mattered. She didn't and ended up meeting a whole new set of friends instead.

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