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Event Entities

TaskMate has always fired taskmate_* events on Home Assistant's event bus for YAML automations. Event entities put the same moments where the UI can see them: one entity per child, plus one for the family. In the automation editor you can now pick "When Vaiha's activity has event type Chore approved" from a list, without writing any YAML or looking up event names. On a dashboard, the entity shows the latest thing that happened.

A child's event entity, with its latest events

New in v7.0.0

The Entities

They're created automatically, on the TaskMate device:

Entity Example ID Covers
{Child} activity event.taskmate_vaiha_activity Everything about that one child
Family activity event.taskmate_family_activity Family-wide moments

A new child gets their entity as soon as they're added. On Home Assistant 2026.6 and later, a new entity on a device that has an area gets the area in front of its ID (for example event.kitchen_taskmate_vaiha_activity), so check the real ID in Settings → Entities.

The entity's state is the time of the latest event. Its event_type attribute says what happened, and the other attributes carry that event's details (child, chore, points and so on: the same data as the bus event, minus the timestamp).

Event Types

On each child's entity

Event type Shown as Event type Shown as
chore_completed Chore completed challenge_completed Challenge completed
chore_approved Chore approved bonus_applied Bonus applied
chore_rejected Chore rejected penalty_applied Penalty applied
chore_approval_undone Chore approval undone surprise_bonus Surprise bonus
chore_auto_approved Chore auto-approved mandatory_missed Mandatory chore missed
reward_claimed Reward claimed team_chore_completed Team chore completed
reward_approved Reward approved points_gifted Points gifted
reward_rejected Reward rejected help_requested Help requested
badge_earned Badge earned mood_logged Mood logged
level_up Level up weekly_goal_reached Weekly goal reached
streak_updated Streak updated sick_day Sick day
streak_freeze_used Streak freeze used penalty_redeemed Penalty earned back
perfect_week Perfect week raffle_won Raffle won
weekly_target_reached Weekly target reached pet_evolved Pet grew up
quest_completed Quest completed

An event about more than one child lands on each of their entities: a gift of points on both the giver's and the receiver's, a teamwork chore on everyone in the team.

On the family entity

Event type Shown as
family_goal_reached Family goal reached
season_champion Season champion
bounty_posted Bounty posted
scheduled_change_applied Scheduled change applied
raffle_drawn Raffle drawn

Events tied to a notification (help requested, weekly goal reached, penalty earned back, pet grew up, raffle drawn) reach the entities whether or not that notification is switched on.

Using Them in the Automation Editor

Settings → Automations & scenes → Create automation, then Add trigger → Entity → State. Pick the child's activity entity, set Attribute to Event type and To to the event you want. The editor offers the event types by name.

An automation triggered by a child's event entity

The same automation in YAML:

alias: Vaiha's chore approved
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: event.taskmate_vaiha_activity
    attribute: event_type
    to: chore_approved
actions:
  - action: persistent_notification.create
    data:
      title: Chore approved
      message: >-
        {{ state_attr('event.taskmate_vaiha_activity', 'chore_name') }}
        is approved: +{{ state_attr('event.taskmate_vaiha_activity', 'points') }}

A trigger on the Event type attribute only fires when the type changes. To catch every occurrence, even two approvals in a row, trigger on the entity's state (it changes with every event) and check the type in a condition:

triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: event.taskmate_vaiha_activity
    not_from: unavailable
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: event.taskmate_vaiha_activity
    attribute: event_type
    state: chore_approved

Ideas

When Then
help_requested on any child Flash the kitchen light
level_up Play a fanfare on the living-room speaker
raffle_drawn on the family entity Announce the winner on the kiosk speaker
sick_day Skip the morning chore announcement for that child

Bus Events Still Work

Nothing changes for existing automations: every taskmate_* bus event still fires, with the same data. The event entities are an extra way in. See Automations for the full list of bus events.