I’m pretty sure that this was the reason behind this “bug” 
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I know how to add a chore if I go through the integrations page. My question is that is there a way to add a chore in a more streamlined fashion? The reason I ask it is because I don’t think my wife will remember how to get to that integration page and add our own chores whenever she thinks of them
The only way to add a chore right now is through the integration configuration. While it’s technically possible to create a service for this, it presents challenges:
- You’d have to manually enter all the required service data in Developer Tools, which is more complex.
- Setting up a dashboard action would require at least 5-6 helper entities to collect the necessary input before calling the service.
I’m open to ideas, but I don’t see a practical way to simplify the process further…
Only other thought that just came to mind, is adding a button on the dashboard that would navigate you directly to the integration. I just spend a couple minutes, and this actually works pretty well to at least get you close.
Let me know if you think this helps.
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I didn’t know you could see you a button to go directly to the integration! How neat
That definitely will solve that issue 
it might be worth adding that to your example lovelace dashboard. Just food for thought
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Any idea how to get this button to work on the mobile app? Instead of redirecting to the integration page inside of the app, it opens a browser to log into HA and then it goes to the integration page
As far as I know, the companion app doesn’t allow navigation into any setting or configuration. That said, I also I have a remembered login to ha on my mobile browser just in case I need to make a setting change while I’m away. It’s generally a one time setup until you delete your browser cookies or something.
Since you’re not using it for your kids, I’m curious if you make your wife approve all the chores you complete? Obviously kidding, but I am curious about your use case and if you setup automatic approvals or anything else about how you might use it differently for adults.
So I actually made my own chore manager using node red and was using it for the longest time. It worked well but was significantly more tedious to add chores because I had to manually add 4 entities per chore to my config
I switched to this because the integration can add chores fairly seamlessly! 
I set up a process to automatically approve all chores. I run it at a quicker frequency than once per day though.
My use case is it’s easy to say you’re going to do certain chores this week and then kick the can down the road. And before you know it it’s been 4 weeks and you swear it’s only been 1 week. It’s really just an accountability thing 
And then the other part of my use case is for odd home maintenance things that happen once or twice a year. Like cleaning out my HVAC drain.
Btw, I figured out you can navigate via the android app! If you change it from URL to Navigate and use the below URL, it works:
/config/integrations/integration/kidschores
Thanks for sharing your use case, that makes sense.
Probably not critical for you, but wanted to mention, you can make those automatic approvals immediate, rather than time based, if you follow the structure of #2 in this wiki. Tips & Tricks: Configure Automatic Approval of Chores · ad-ha/kidschores-ha Wiki · GitHub
As for the settings, that’s a good find for Andriod. I just tried on IOS, but unfortunately, using the Navigate option just just takes me to my default landing page. So for IOS, using the URL option will at least take you out to a webpage to access the integration.
Looks like the reward loop is bugged in this release? When claiming (just once), once approved it will continue to ‘charge’ the points until the balance runs out. Example, I have 105 points and a reward costing 10 points, when it is claimed just once, it claims 10 times leaving 5 points.
I submitted a bug report on github.
Thanks for the info. Already responded to the issue.
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The idea was to have a dashboard on the wall for kids to walk by and claim chores as they do them (theyre young and dont have phones or their own devices). When i was testing (from my parent/admin account) it all worked, but now on the tablet it doesnt and I believe I’ve narrowed it down to permissions, the dashboard user simply cannot claim chores for the kids.
I dont want to set the dashboard user as an admin or a parent, because i dont want people to be able to approve chores or assign punishments from the device - we all know how quickly kids would do nefarious things, lol.
What options are there to get this to work?
Hi @John_Gratis
Did you associate the dashboard user with the Kids in the integration configuration?
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Take a look at the wiki. It has examples like yours in the access and best practices document. Look at kiosk or universal kid references. Access Control: Overview & Best Practices · ad-ha/kidschores-ha Wiki · GitHub
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I believe this will be my solution. thank you!
Give it a try and let me know. It should work if you get the users linked.
You can also link the same HA user to multiple kids, if you need them to share the same device and HA account.