HomeWatch — Your Home, Your Guests, Your Story

Last updated: 8/8/2026

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 or /hw — opens the Guest Book

Features

Guest Book (6 Tabs)

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

Guest Tracking

• Live Current Guests list with elapsed timers
• Party members get the same full tracking as ungrouped guests — welcome whisper, guest log, return recognition
• Guest notes per visit, with a whisper button and note button on every guest row
• Returning guests are recognized automatically with a personalized "welcome back" message

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.

Minimap Button

Left-click opens the Guest Book · Right-click opens My Homes · Drag to reposition · Can be hidden entirely from Options tab

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

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, with returning guests flagged for the host
• 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
• Survives a UI reload or disconnect — an active Open House automatically restores itself, reconciles anyone who joined or left while you were offline, and lets you choose exactly who gets re-greeted
• Group Finder Listing helper — prepares a ready-to-copy Title and Details for posting your Open House to the Custom Groups finder, pre-filled from your own customizable text
• 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

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

General

• Enable/disable toggle — pause all tracking, whispers, and Open House messaging without disabling the addon
• Minimap icon can be hidden independently of the toggle above

ToS-Friendly by Design

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

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
• Optional "Suppress regular Welcome Whisper" toggle (Current Guests tab) — mutes the standard whisper during Open House hosting so a guest who just left your raid doesn't get double-greeted

Requirements

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

Credits

Author: Blodwedd Mallory

Questions or feedback: blodweddmallory.com/contact

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