Weather Aware Chores
Outdoor chores can hide themselves when the weather is unsuitable. There is no point putting "mow the lawn" on a child's card during a downpour, and no point penalising them for not doing it.
Open a chore in the Admin Panel → Chores → Edit chore and expand Advanced — weather conditions.
| Setting | Effect |
|---|---|
| Weather entity | The weather.* entity to read. Leave empty to ignore the weather entirely. |
| Hide when the weather is | Any number of conditions — rainy, pouring, snowy, sleet, hail, lightning, thunderstorm, fog, windy, very windy, cloudy, severe. |
| Minimum temperature | Hide the chore below this. Leave empty for no limit. |
| Maximum temperature | Hide the chore above this. Leave empty for no limit. |
| Maximum wind speed | Hide the chore above this. Leave empty for no limit. |
Temperature and wind limits are read from the weather entity's temperature and wind_speed attributes, in whatever units your entity reports. TaskMate does not convert units — if your weather entity reports °F, enter your limits in °F.
Conditions are checked first, then temperature, then wind.
The weather check sits in the same availability path as scheduling, rotation and dependencies. That means a chore hidden by the weather:
- does not raise a mandatory-miss review item
- does not break the child's streak
- does not count against the chore in the Insights friction report
It simply isn't due today, in the same way a Tuesday-only chore isn't due on a Wednesday.
Anything that goes wrong leaves the chore visible:
- the weather entity is missing or was deleted
- its state is
unavailableorunknown - the attribute a limit needs (
temperature,wind_speed) isn't present
A weather integration going offline overnight must never quietly hide the whole family's chores. The failure mode is "the child sees a chore they might not need to do", not "nobody does anything".
Leave a limit blank to disable it. Entering 0 means zero degrees, not "off" — a common trap worth stating plainly, because "hide below 0°" and "no minimum" are very different instructions.
| Chore | Setting |
|---|---|
| Mow the lawn | Hide on rainy and pouring
|
| Wash the car | Hide below 2° |
| Put the bins out | Hide above 40 km/h wind |
| Water the plants | Hide on rainy — nature did it for you |
| Sweep the patio | Hide on snowy, hide below 0° |
- Chores — the chore editor and the full list of chore fields
- Dynamic Chore Visibility — gating a chore on any Home Assistant entity state, not just weather
- Chore Scheduling — how a chore becomes due in the first place
- Mandatory Chores — why a weather-hidden chore never raises a miss