v3.2.1

🚀 Update: Apple Text Formatting Fix + Bonus Task Notifications ✨

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🍏 Fixed a text-formatting issue on Apple devices (iOS/macOS) so content now displays correctly.

🔔 Improvements

• 🧩 Notifications now support Bonus Tasks — stay updated when extra tasks are added or completed! ✅

🙌 Thanks

• 💙 Thanks for using the project! If you spot anything odd, please open an issue 🐞 or drop feedback 💬.

v3.2.0

🎉 Release Notes

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✨ Highlights

• 🆕 Bonus Tasks are here — add optional extra goals to any task and reward extra points! ⭐️
• 🧹 Smarter rollover cleanup — pending approvals are kept safe ✅
• 🎨 Child card UI upgrades — cleaner layout, better sorting, and scroll support 📜
• 🛒 Shop feedback boost — smoother purchase animations + double-tap prevention 🔒

🆕 New Feature: Bonus Tasks ⭐️

You can now add a Bonus Task to a regular task 🎯

• 🧩 Flexible rewards: e.g. 10 points for the main task + 5 bonus points if the bonus is also completed 💯

• 🧒 Child card visual update: bonus + main are shown nicely and clearly on the card ✨

• 👨‍👩‍👧 New parent approvals:

  • ✅ Approve All → awards points for main + bonus
  • 🟡 Approve Partially → awards points for main only

• 👀 These two approval buttons are only shown when Bonus Tasks are enabled for that task 🔁

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🍎 Fixed a text formatting issue affecting Apple products ✍️✅

• 🔄 Updated rollover behavior:

  • Before: rollover could delete tasks that were still waiting for approval ❌
  • Now: tasks pending approval are preserved, while completed tasks are handled correctly ✅🧠

🎨 UI / UX Improvements

• 🧒 Child card icon spacing improved:

  • Before: an empty gap always appeared if no icon was selected 🕳️
  • Now: that space is used by the task title + points, and the icon space returns only when an icon is chosen 🪄

• 📌 Better task ordering on child card:

  • ⬆️ Incomplete tasks always appear at the top
  • ⬇️ Completed tasks always move to the bottom ✅

• 📜 Child card is now scrollable, making long task lists much easier to use 👆

• 🧼 Additional small UI polish and tweaks throughout the app ✨🛠️

🛒 Shop Improvements

• 💥 More visual feedback when buying:

  • ✨ A pop-out effect triggers on purchase
  • 🟢 The “Buy” button changes to “Bought” for 5 seconds
  • 🔒 The button is disabled for those 5 seconds to prevent accidental double-taps 🖱️🚫

🧩 Data / Extensibility Updates

• 🧠 Added 3 new attributes to the person sensor created when you add a name:

  • 📅 monthly points earned
  • 🗓️ weekly points earned
  • ♾️ lifetime points earned

• 🔧 These are optional but available if you want to use them for extra features, stats, or automations 📈✨

v3.1.0

🔔 Notifications are finally here! 🎉

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✨ Highlights

• 🔔 Built-in notifications — no extra setup needed 🎯
• 📱 Send directly from the integration by selecting a mobile_app entity ✅
• 🧩 Per-device targeting — choose exactly which devices receive which notifications 🎛️

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🆕 New: Notifications (the big one!) 🚀

This is a feature many of you have been waiting for — notifications! 🥳

It’s been a tough one to build (and something I personally really wanted), but it’s now working straight from the integration 💪✨

⚙️ How it works

📌 Requirements

• 🌐 Remote access must be enabled (so your Home Assistant instance can deliver notifications outside your local network) ✅
• 📲 The Home Assistant app (Companion App) must be installed on the receiving device(s) ✅

1. Pick the mobile_app entity you want to notify 📲
2. (Optional) Decide which devices should receive which notification types 🎚️
3. Enjoy automatic updates whenever something happens 🎉

📣 Currently supported notification types

• ✅ Task completed

  • Includes who completed it 👤
  • Includes which task was completed 🧾
  • Includes date + time 📅🕒

• 🛒 Shop item purchased

  • Includes who bought it 👤
  • Includes what was bought 🏷️
  • Includes how much it cost 💰
  • Includes date + time 📅🕒

🖼️ Optional: Attach the shop item image

For shop purchase notifications, you can enable an option to also attach the item image 🧡
So you can instantly see what was bought at a glance 👀✨

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🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

• Small changes and fixes contributed by @mew1033 — huge thanks! 🙌💚
• A bug fix contributed by @phillclaxton — thank you! 🐛🔧💙

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💬 Feedback

I really hope you’ll like this update ❤️
If you run into anything weird (or have ideas for more notification types 🔮), please open an issue or drop feedback 🙏✨

v3.0.2

🚨 v3.0.0 — BREAKING CHANGE: Card + Integration are now bundled 📦✨

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Warning

🚨 Read this before installing v3.0.0

This release requires a mandatory one-time migration 🧰✅

🔴 Do NOT install/update to v3.0.0 until you complete the steps below.

The Lovelace card and the sync integration are now installed/managed together 📦✨.
To avoid conflicts, missing files, or broken resources, the old separate setup must be removed cleanly first 🧹🛠️

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✨ What’s new in v3.0.0?

• 📦 Bundled installation: Card + integration are now combined into one install

• 🧩 After setup, the integration will automatically:

  • 📁 Install the card into your www folder
  • 🔗 Add the card to Resources (similar to HACS) ✅

• 🏷️ Naming update:

  • Chores4Kids Sync ➜ Chores4Kids

✅ There are no feature changes to the card itself — this release is about packaging + installation flow 🚀💙

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✅ Mandatory migration steps (do this BEFORE installing v3.0.0)

1) 🧹 Remove the old standalone setup completely

• ❌ Uninstall the standalone card (make sure it’s fully removed from Home Assistant)
• 🗑️ Remove any old Resource entry for the standalone card (if it still exists) ✅

2) 📥 Install/update v3.0.0 (combined integration)

• ✅ Install/update Chores4Kids (previously “Chores4Kids Sync”)
• 🔁 Restart Home Assistant (recommended and important) ✅

3) ⚙️ Run the integration setup again

• Go to Settings → Devices & Services 🧭

• Open Chores4Kids and click Configure / Reconfigure (if available) ✅

• Once configured, it will automatically:

  • 📁 Install the card into www
  • 🔗 Add it to Resources

4) 🌐 Hard refresh Home Assistant

• Do a hard refresh in your browser 🔄
• Chrome/Edge (Windows/Linux): Ctrl + Shift + R or Ctrl + F5 ⌨️
• Chrome (macOS): ⌘ + Shift + R ⌨️

✅ After this, the card should appear exactly like before 👀✨

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🆘 If something looks wrong

• ✅ Double-check you removed the old standalone card and any leftover Resource entry
• ✅ Verify the card exists in www
• ✅ Verify the resource entry was added
• 🔄 Do another hard refresh
• 🔁 Try restarting Home Assistant one more time

If you still run into issues, please open an issue with logs + screenshots 🐞🧠📸

v2.2.1

🚀 Release Notes - v2.2.1

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⚠️ Important

• 🗂️ These updates require updating the Card to the latest version — don’t forget! ✅🔄

✨ What’s new

🎨 Customization

• ✅ “Task done” button color can now be customized too 🎛️🌈 (this was missing in the previous release)

🧩 Audio / Media

• 🔊 Added a menu option to remove your audio file 🗑️🎧 — so it can be deleted again when you no longer need it

🐛 Fixes

• 🗺️ Fixed a potential issue in the card view that could cause the editor to show up blank 🧯🛠️

🧼 UI polish

• 🎀 A handful of small UI improvements for a smoother experience ✨🖱️

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💬 Found something odd or have ideas? Feel free to open an issue — feedback is always welcome! 🙌💙

v2.2.0

🚀 Release Notes — Recurring Tasks, Performance Fixes & Custom Colors 🎨

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✨ Highlights

• 🛡️ Safer “Finish / Complete task” button — prevents multiple taps on slow devices
• 🎊 Optional confetti — toggle it off to reduce lag
• 🗓️ New recurring tasks — Weekly & Monthly auto-assign
• 🎨 Category color picker — make your categories pop!

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🛡️ Fixed

• Multiple “Finish / Complete task” clicks on slow devices

  • Previously, the button could be pressed multiple times for a few seconds before disabling, which could cause lag and trigger the same action more than once.
  • Now a shield/lock mechanism ensures the task completion runs only once, even if the button is tapped repeatedly. ✅

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⚙️ Added / Updated

• 🎊 Confetti toggle in the Admin Editor

  • Some users experienced lag from confetti effects.
  • Confetti is now optional — switch it on/off depending on your device performance. 🧘‍♂️📱

• 🗓️ Recurring tasks: Weekly & Monthly

  • Weekly 🔁: Automatically assigns every Monday
  • Monthly 📆: Automatically assigns on the 1st of every month

• 🎨 Category colors

  • You can now choose colors for your categories to better organize and personalize your setup. 🌈

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📝 Notes

• If you notice smoother performance after disabling confetti, that’s expected — it’s designed to help reduce UI load on slower devices. ⚡
• Recurring tasks are great for habits, routines, and monthly checklists ✅📌

Enjoy the update! 💙🚀

v2.1.0

🚀 Release Notes - v2.1.0

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💥 BREAKING CHANGE

• 🔧 The card type has been renamed and must be updated manually in your YAML for all cards.

• 🔄 Don’t forget to update the card too — the integration won’t work correctly until the card is updated. ⚠️✅

  ✅ Change this:

  type: custom:chores4kids-dev-card

  ➡️ To this:

  type: custom:chores4kids-card

🐛 Bug fixes

• ⚡️ Fastest Wins is working again — fixed a bug that prevented it from functioning correctly. ✅
• 🗓️ Fixed a potential issue where unfinished tasks could roll over to the next day even when roll-over was disabled. 🔒✨

✨ Improvements

• 🛠️ In the Editor (Admin Card), you can now change the font size on the Kids Card for better readability. 🔤👶📇

v2.0.0

🚀 Release Notes - v2.0.0

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Here’s what’s new in this update! 🎉✨

🧩 New Features

• ✅ First-Come, First-Served Tasks 🏁👦👧
  You can now create a task where “the first child to take it, gets it.”
  If the same task is assigned to multiple children, the first child who either:

  • Starts the task 🟢 (if start-to-claim is enabled), or
  • Completes the task ✅ (if complete-to-claim is enabled)
    will automatically claim the task.

• 🧑‍💻 Admin Editor: Custom Color Settings 🎨🖌️
  The admin card editor now lets you choose custom colors for specific elements:

  • Start task 🟢
  • Complete task ✅
  • Total points 🏅
  • Task points ⭐

  These updates are applied automatically across all cards 🔄✨.

• 🚫 Hide Points Completely (Optional) 🙈💯
  You can now disable the points section entirely in the editor. This will hide:

  • Pointshop 🛍️
  • Points earned 🏆
  • Other point-related elements 💰

  The child’s card will show tasks only, without points 📝✅.

• ✏️ Auto-Assigned Tasks Can Now Be Edited 🔁🛠️
  Previously, if a task was created with auto-assign and included today, it would jump straight into Assigned tasks and disappear from Tasks, making it impossible to edit.

  ✅ This is now fixed — auto-assigned tasks remain editable!

  ⚠️ Important note: Existing tasks created under the old behavior won’t gain editing support automatically. You’ll need to delete them and recreate them 🗑️➡️➕.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🛍️ Pointshop Purchase History now shows Date & Time 🕒📅
  Fixed an issue where the purchase history did not display a date or timestamp. It now shows correctly ✅✨.

📊 Improvements

• 🧾 New “Finished tasks” section in the Admin Card ✅📌
  A new section has been added to provide a clearer visual overview of:

  • What’s assigned 📌
  • What’s finished / ready for approval ✅👀

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🔄 Important: Update the Card! ⚠️🤝

To ensure everything works correctly, please make sure to update your Card as well 🛠️✨
Many of the new features and improvements in this release will not work properly without the updated Card 🚫🔗.

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🎯 Thanks for using the app! More improvements coming soon 🚀💙

v1.3.0

🚀 Release Notes

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✨ Highlights

• 🎨 UI refresh: Small visual tweaks to improve clarity and overall experience.
• 🏁 Early completion bonus (per task): Reward tasks completed ahead of schedule with a configurable bonus.
• 👆 One‑tap completion (per task): Option to finish a task with a single tap.
• ✅ Skip parent approval (per task): Allow certain tasks to be completed without requiring parent approval.
• 🛠️ General fixes: Various small bug fixes and stability improvements.

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🆕 Added

🏅 Early completion bonus (per task)

You can now configure an early completion bonus for individual tasks! 🎉

• 💰 Choose the bonus amount.

• 📅 Choose how many days before the due date the bonus should apply.

• 🔁 Works with both:

  • 🤖 Auto‑assign schedules
  • 🎯 A specific selected date

• ✅ Configuration is per task, so each task can have its own rules.

👆 One‑tap completion (per task)

A new setting lets you enable/disable one‑tap completion per task:

• 🔘 When enabled, you only need one tap to complete the task.
• 🧩 Set it individually per task depending on how strict you want the flow.

✅ Skip parent approval (per task)

A new per‑task option lets certain tasks bypass parent approval:

• 🚦 Useful for trusted/recurring tasks where approval isn’t needed.
• 🔧 Controlled per task for full flexibility.

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🔄 Changed

🔁 Reassign flow when tasks repeat the same day

If Carry unfinished task to next day ✅ and Skip parent approval ✅ are both enabled:

• After completing the task, under Assigned Tasks, you can reassign the task again 🔁 (only when that same task is also scheduled for the same day).

If Skip parent approval is disabled ❌:

• You will still get a popup confirmation 🪟 when approving the task, asking whether you want to reassign it.
• 📌 The popup only appears if the same task is scheduled again for the same day.

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🐛 Fixed

• 🧯 Minor bug fixes across the app.
• 🧹 Small stability and UI polish improvements.

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⚠️ Important

• 🗺️ Please remember to update both the Card and the Sync integration when rolling out this release 🔄✨

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❤️ Thanks

Thanks for using the app! More improvements coming soon 🌟🙌

v1.2.0

🎉 Release Notes v1.2.0

🕒 Smarter next-day tasks

• "Persist task to next day" now skips duplicate tasks and shows a popup if an identical auto-assigned task already exists 🔁✨