Sauna is a macOS (and watchOS, see below) app that lets you check which of your Steam friends are online without running the full Steam client.
Compared to the Steam client, Sauna is lightweight and a good macOS citizen. Sauna is useful for people who play games in Boot Camp and want to see who's online without rebooting or running the Steam client.
Sauna will notify you when a friend comes online or starts playing a new game. These notifications can, of course, be disabled if you don't want them.
There is also a companion watchOS app in this repository. It offers similar functionality to the macOS app but is missing a few features, notably:
- No auto-refreshing of the friends list.
- No notifications for friends coming online and launching games.
Sauna requires macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or newer.
To configure Sauna, you'll need a Steam Web API key and your 64-bit Steam ID. You can get a personal API key by filling in a form on Steam's website. For many users, your Steam ID is the number in your profile's Steam community URL. If you have a vanity URL, there are various online tools that will retrieve your Steam ID.
Sauna for watchOS requires watchOS 7 or newer.
Configuring the watchOS app is a bit more complex than the macOS app as you have to build you're own copy of it. Before starting, you'll need to have an Apple developer account and have registered your Apple Watch on the developer portal.
To build the watchOS app, create a file in the root of the project directory
called Secrets.swift. In it, add the following
import LibSauna
let kMySteamID = SteamID(rawValue: "YOUR_STEAM_ID")!
let kMySteamAPIKey: APIKey = "YOUR_STEAM_API_KEY"filling in your Steam Web API key and your 64-bit Steam ID.
Once you've created this file, open the project in Xcode and navigate to the project settings screen. For the "SaunaWatch", "SaunaWatch WatchKit App" and "SaunaWatch WatchKit Extension" targets, change the team to your developer account's team. You'll possibly also need to change the bundle IDs of the targets.
Now you can run the app on your watch by running the "SaunaWatch WatchKit App" scheme in Xcode. This may take a few tries as Xcode is unreliable when it comes to running apps on a device.
Sauna for macOS is built using AppKit while the watchOS app is built using
SwiftUI. Both apps use The Composable Architecture and share much
of their code via. the LibSauna package.
I had intended to port Sauna for macOS to SwiftUI but given the state of SwiftUI on macOS Big Sur, this is not going to happen with this release.
Sauna is limited to displaying 100 friends out of laziness. If this turns out to be a significant issue, I'll look into increasing it.