Because the widget is in another scene, it is not truly online. You may need to set up a hot key for the widget (Ctrl+0), take the scene and then hit the hot key for the counter. Another thought that may or may not work (I haven't tested it), would be to set up your hot key for the Widget and under your keyboard mapping set the same hot key to take the scene. In theory, this would trigger the scene and the Widget at the same time.
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