Claude Auto Pinger

Claude Auto Pinger - Never Lose Your Claude AI Session Again! Tired of losing your Claude AI session because it timed out? Claude Auto Pinger automatically keeps your session alive by sending a small keep-alive ping every 5 hours, so you always have access when you need it. Requires Claude Pro or Max. Free accounts are detected automatically. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ AUTOMATIC SESSION KEEP-ALIVE • Sends a lightweight "Hello" to Claude every 5 hours automatically (incognito chat with Haiku 4.5 - the smallest, cheapest model) • Runs silently in the background - no interruptions • Survives browser restarts (Chrome alarms persist across sessions) • Restores your previously selected model after each ping - your Opus 5 / Sonnet 5 / Fable 5.1 default is never changed silently 🧠 SMART SKIP (on by default - you can opt out) • Before every ping, the extension refreshes your usage page and checks whether a Claude session is already running • If one is, it skips the ping - no point starting a redundant window while you're coding • "Run now" follows the same rule: it refreshes first and shows you the live session instead of burning a redundant ping • Want every ping to go out regardless? Turn Smart Skip off in Settings • Saves quota for users who code throughout the day 🕒 CUSTOM PING SCHEDULE • Click hours on a clean 24-hour grid (00–23) to ping at exact local-time slots instead of every 5 hours • One-click presets: Every 6 h, Every 8 h, Overnight (3 AM) • Perfect for night-owl coders who want a fresh window ready at 3 AM, or anyone with a regular daily schedule • Live summary shows the resulting times (e.g. "Pings at 03:00 · 09:00 · 15:00 · 21:00") 📊 REAL-TIME USAGE DASHBOARD • Live countdown timer to next scheduled ping (updates every second) • Current session usage % with color-coded progress bar (yellow at 60 %, red at 80 %) • Weekly usage limit % with reset date • Session reset timer so you know exactly when limits refresh • Optimistic update - the session bar jumps to 100 % remaining the moment a ping succeeds (no more "stuck at 2 % remaining") • Every ping is verified five minutes later against your real usage page - a ping that didn't register is retried, not silently counted as a success • Configurable auto-refresh (15 min / 30 min / 1 h / 2 h - default 30 min) 🛡️ SAFE-START DIAGNOSTIC • Doesn't silently start on install - waits for your first "Run now" click • Verifies you're signed in to claude.ai before doing anything • Detects Free-plan accounts (claude.ai redirects them to /upgrade) and tells you clearly • If your session is already active, the very first ping is intelligently skipped • Clear error banners for every failure mode ("You're signed out", "Free plan detected", "Couldn't read your usage page") • Recoverable problems retry automatically on your refresh interval - sign back in and it picks up where it left off, no clicking required 🎮 FULL MANUAL CONTROL • Run Now - trigger an immediate ping anytime (button is properly disabled while a ping is in flight, so you can't accidentally double-ping) • Pause / Resume - temporarily disable auto-pinging • Refresh - manually re-sync with Claude's usage data ☀️ DARK + LIGHT THEMES • Default dark mode uses bright white text on a dark background for easy reading on glossy screens • One-click toggle (☀️ / 🌙 in the popup header) for a true white-background light mode • Your choice is remembered between sessions 📋 ACTIVITY HISTORY • View the last 10 ping/refresh/skip events with status icons • See success, error, and info events at a glance • "Sent 'Hello' to Haiku 4.5", "Session already running (21 % used, resets 2h 14m) - no ping needed", "Model restored to Opus 5", etc. 👋 WELCOME PAGE ON FIRST INSTALL • A friendly onboarding tab opens once when you install the extension • 3-step setup guide, feature overview, settings explained with a live hour-grid mockup, FAQ • No external website needed - everything is bundled in the extension 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST • Zero data collection - nothing is sent to external servers • No analytics, no tracking, no cookies • Everything stored locally in your browser via chrome.storage.local • Only talks to claude.ai (the extension's host permission) • Open and transparent - review the source code yourself ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤔 HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Install the extension 2. Make sure you're signed in at claude.ai with a Pro or Max plan 3. Click the extension icon and click "Run now" once 4. The extension verifies your sign-in, reads your session reset time, and either pings to start a fresh window or - if you're already in a session - queues the next ping for after it resets 5. Each ping opens a hidden tab, switches to Haiku 4.5, sends a quick "Hello", restores your previously selected model, and closes the tab 6. Five minutes later it re-checks your usage page to confirm the session really started - and tries again if it didn't 7. Your session stays alive - no more timeouts! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 SUPPORT & FEEDBACK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Love the extension? Leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review! Questions or issues? Email: suleyman.helps@gmail.com Want to support development? Use the 💝 Support button in the popup, or visit https://buymeacoffee.com/science64 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆕 WHAT'S NEW IN v1.2.5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Fixed: sessions running past midnight read as "no session". Claude's usage page writes those resets with a day in front ("Resets Sat 1:00 AM"), which v1.2.4 couldn't read, so every evening refresh missed the session. They're read correctly now. • Fixed: "Ping didn't register" after pings that did. Any usage on the session row now counts as a live session, even when the reset line can't be read. • Harder to break next time: one reader handles every way of writing the reset (today, tomorrow, a weekday, a date, 12- or 24-hour times), and the session and weekly rows are found through the usage bars' own labels, not the text around them. • I…