🚀 Release: v3.6.3

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🚀 New Release: v3.6.3

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What's New

Configurable Time-of-Day Boundaries (#242)

You can now customise when morning, afternoon, evening, and night start and end to match your household's schedule.

How to use: Go to TaskMate Admin Panel → Settings → Time-of-day boundaries. Each period has a start and end time (HH:MM format):

Period	Default Start	Default End
Morning	06:00	12:00
Afternoon	12:00	17:00
Evening	17:00	21:00
Night	21:00	23:59

These boundaries affect:

• Which chores appear on the child card at any given time
• Claim windows and locked-preview labels
• Period detection for time-of-day chore filtering

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Admin Panel Fully Translatable (#252, #253)

The entire admin panel is now internationalised via the same i18n system used by all Lovelace cards. 423 translation keys have been added, covering:

• All tab names, button labels, field labels, and help text
• Status badges, dropdown menus, toast notifications
• Dialog headers, form field hints, empty state messages
• Time category labels, assignment modes, recurrence options

Supported languages: English, English (GB), German, French, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, and Portuguese (Brazil).

The panel automatically uses your Home Assistant language setting — no configuration needed.

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Period Column in Chores Table (#257)

The chores management table in the admin panel now shows a Period column displaying each chore's time category (Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night, or Anytime) as a pill badge. No more embedding timing info in chore names — the scheduling intent is visible at a glance.

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Bug Fixes

Career Graph Shows Flat Line for Users Without History (#259)

The career points graph relied solely on career_score_history, which only accumulates data going forward from when the feature was introduced. For existing users who upgraded, this store was empty — producing a flat line despite months of completed chores.

Fix (two-part):

• Backend: On startup, if a child has fewer than 7 career history entries, the coordinator reconstructs the full history from all stored completions and transactions (up to 90 days), anchored from the current career score.
• Frontend: When stored history is sparse, _buildCareerSeries() reconstructs career evolution client-side from the same completion/transaction data used by daily and cumulative modes.

Existing users will see their career graph populate automatically after updating — no action needed.

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Translation Race Condition Causing Raw Keys on First Load (#248)

Cards could display raw translation keys (e.g., child.todays_chores instead of "Today's Chores") on initial page load. The old cold-cache fix ran before locale fetches completed and nothing triggered a re-render afterwards.

Fix:

• The fallback locale (en-GB) is now pre-loaded eagerly when the localise module initialises
• After every successful locale fetch, all TaskMate cards in the DOM are re-rendered via _refreshTaskMateCards()
• Cards that briefly show raw keys now self-correct within milliseconds once translations arrive

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Timed Task Text Invisible in Dark Mode (#258)

Timer counters and progress bars used hardcoded colours that were invisible against dark backgrounds.

Fix: Replaced hardcoded colours with Home Assistant theme-aware CSS variables:

• Timer counter text: now uses var(--primary-text-color) instead of #2c3e50
• Timer display background: now uses var(--secondary-background-color) instead of rgba(0,0,0,0.03)
• Cap track: now uses var(--divider-color) instead of rgba(0,0,0,0.06)

Timers are now fully legible across all HA themes.

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Timed Task Points Display in Celebration Popup and Pending Approvals (#244)

Timed tasks showed static chore base points instead of actual earned points (calculated from duration) in celebration popups and the pending approvals sensor.

Fix: Celebration popup now captures calculated timed points before calling the stop service. Pending approvals sensor now computes timed points from timed_duration_seconds using the same formula: (elapsed ÷ rate_window) × rate_points.

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Timed Task Points Mismatch and Dialog Re-render (#243)

Three interconnected issues:

1. Selecting "Timed" task type in the chore config dialog didn't show timed-specific fields until save and reopen
2. Timed completions reported base chore points instead of calculated earned points
3. Celebration popup used wrong points for timed tasks

Fix: Added rerender flag to task type selector so timed fields appear immediately. Updated completions to calculate actual earned points. Changed celebration to read points from the completion record.

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11 Missing Translation Keys Across All Locales (#241)

Eleven keys were missing from all 8 locale files, causing untranslated text:

• Timed task controls: child.start, child.pause, child.paused, child.resume, child.done
• Colour picker: common.default
• Rotation tab: dashboard.tab_rotation, dashboard.empty_rotation, dashboard.rotation_skip_confirm, dashboard.rotation_skip_hint, dashboard.rotation_unassigned

All added and translated across all 8 supported languages.

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Panel Version Display, Notify Service Dropdown, and CSS Overflow (#251)

• Version: Panel now extracts version dynamically from the module URL instead of using a stale hardcoded string
• Dropdowns: Replaced ha-select/mwc-list-item with native select/option elements for notify service and streak reset dropdowns — fixes broken interactivity in recent HA versions
• CSS: Removed overflow: hidden from panel sections that was clipping dropdown menus

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Avatar and Icon Changes Not Persisting in Panel Dialogs (#250)

Icon/avatar changes in child, reward, bonus, and penalty dialogs were silently discarded on save. The panel relied on value-changed events from ha-icon-picker whose detail structure varies across HA versions.

Fix: Added _syncIconPickers() that reads icon values directly from the DOM before every save operation, ensuring changes persist regardless of event handling differences.

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Full Changelog

• b86fd8d feat: configurable time-of-day boundaries (feat: configurable time-of-day boundaries #242)
• 25a98ac feat: make admin panel fully translatable via i18n system (feat: make admin panel fully translatable via i18n system #252)
• ae1d5ee feat: add panel translations for de, nb, nn, pt, pt-BR (feat: add panel translations for de, nb, nn, pt, pt-BR #253)
• 498ab73 feat: add Period column to chores management table (feat: add Period column to chores management table #257)
• 2af3c82 fix: career graph shows flat line for users without history (fix: career graph shows flat line for users without history #259)
• fa29502 fix: resolve translation race condition causing raw keys on first load (fix: resolve translation race condition causing raw keys on first load #248)
• c8a2203 fix: timed task text visibility in dark mode (fix: timed task text visibility in dark mode #258)
• 6a0c780 fix: timed task points display in celebration popup and pending approvals (fix: timed task points display in celebration and approvals #244)
• 951f847 fix: timed task points mismatch and dialog re-render on task type change (fix: timed task points mismatch and dialog re-render #243)
• 273b208 fix: add 11 missing translation keys to all 8 locale files (fix: add missing translation keys to all locale files #241)
• bbcc3e4 fix: panel version display, notify service dropdown, and CSS overflow (fix: panel version display, notify service dropdown, and CSS overflow #251)
• fb4d559 fix: avatar and icon changes in panel dialogs not persisting (fix: avatar and icon changes in panel dialogs not persisting #250)

Updating

In HACS: go to TaskMate → Redownload, select version v3.6.3, then restart Home Assistant. Do a hard browser refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R) to clear cached card JavaScript.

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Upgrading

Update via HACS or by downloading the latest release and copying to /config/custom_components/taskmate/.

After updating, restart Home Assistant. Lovelace resources will update automatically on restart.

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