What am I doing wrong?I got the addon working and I can see my 2 accounts and the sensors but no matter what I do it doesn't change anything. I tried adding bonus time, toggling school time and locking the device but it doesn't change a single thing on the family link
Hi! A couple of things to check, because “sensors show up but nothing changes in Family Link” usually points to a write/permission issue rather than the dashboard itself:
- Which Google account is authenticated in the add-on? It must be the parent account that manages the child in Family Link. If you logged in with a secondary/non-manager account, reads work but writes (bonus, lock, school time…) are silently rejected.
- Check the Home Assistant logs right after you trigger an action (Settings → System → Logs, filter on
familylink). If you see401,403orSession expired, the cookies need re-authenticating in the add-on. A 400/invalid usually means a Google API change. - Give it a few seconds - actions are sent to Google and take a short moment to propagate back; the UI uses an optimistic state for ~5s. If the Family Link app still doesn’t reflect it after ~30s, it’s a real write failure, not a delay.
- Make sure you’re calling the action on the right target (the correct device/child) - bonus and lock are per-device.
Also, if you’re driving everything from the auto-generated entities, it’s easy to trigger the wrong thing. There’s now a ready-made example lovelace dashboard in the repo that wires up the bonus / lock / bedtime / school-time controls cleanly - grab it here and customise the entity IDs to match yours:
HAFamilyLink/examples at main · noiwid/HAFamilyLink · GitHub
(YAML + screenshot + the list of HACS cards it needs are in the folder’s README.)
If it’s still not writing after checking the account + logs, paste the log lines from when you press a button and we’ll dig in.