[tempus2016]

Release 7.8.1: a full translation pass plus the bugs it found. Fixes #1234.

TaskMate 7.8.1

TaskMate now speaks your language everywhere, not just on most screens. The Penalties card no longer shows penalties.new_bonus-style key names (#1234), and every card, the admin panel, error messages, entity names and action drop-downs were checked line by line and translated in all 11 languages. Nothing needs migrating, and entity ids don't change. Minimum Home Assistant is still 2024.7.0.

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🐛 Fixed: the Penalties card showed key names instead of words (#1234)

In edit mode the Penalties card's buttons read penalties.new_bonus and penalties.add_bonus, and saving a new penalty showed penalties.toast_saved. The Bonuses and Penalties cards share their code, and it asked for the bonus wording on both. They now read New Penalty / Add Penalty / Penalty saved (in every language). Reinstalling could never fix this, because it was in the card itself. A new test checks that every word either card asks for exists for both.

🌍 Fixed: words still in English, or shown as key names

• Key names on screen — the approvals card's and parent dashboard's "View photo", the leaderboard from 6th place down (leaderboard.ordinal_6), and the Birthday badge's criteria in the panel now show words.
• English words inside translated sentences — messages such as German "Bearbeite penalty", "Fehler bei approve chore" and "Fehler bei add Punkten" now read fully in your language.
• Text that was typed into the code in English — every card's setup error, the "Use global default" design option in every card editor, sound names, rotation modes ("alternating"), auction refusal reasons, data health warnings, avatar unlock rules ("Level 5") and avatar names ("Rocket", "Royalty"), badge previews, the built-in template packs (they created English-named chores), stepper and button labels, the read-aloud phrases, and the printable chart's days and months.
• One and many — "1 chores", "1 hours" and similar now have their singular forms.
• Grammar — sentences that dropped a lower-cased word into the middle ("Keine aufgaben", "Supprimer tâche") now have their own wording per item.
• Wrong wording — German Cancel was "Stornieren" (cancel an order), now "Abbrechen"; "Bonus gespart" is now "Bonus gespeichert"; "Sticky"/"Spread" group policies are translated in German, Norwegian and Portuguese; British spellings in en-GB (behaviour, organised, practise).
• Wrong counts on two console pills — the calendar card's said "0 of N done" for chores still to do, and the streak card's showed the number of children on a streak as "2d streak".

🌍 Fixed: numbers, dates, times, money and percentages follow your settings

• Numbers and times use Home Assistant's number and time format everywhere — e.g. "×1,5" in German, and 12-hour times for 12-hour users in reminders, bedtime, boosts, set times and time locks.
• Dates in the panel's insights and reward expiry show as dates (e.g. "6. Nov. 2026") instead of raw 2026-11-06.
• Allowance amounts put the currency where your language does: "£5", "5 €", "R$ 5".
• Percentages follow your language: "12 %" in German, French, Danish and Norwegian, "12%" elsewhere.
• Quoted names in messages use your language's quotation marks („Zimmer aufräumen“, « Ranger la chambre », “Tidy room”).

🌍 Fixed: errors show in your language

When TaskMate refuses an action — a chore or reward not found, a reward sold out, pets switched off, not enough points to pay out — the message used to be English for everyone. About 440 messages are now translated, and the cards, the admin panel, Home Assistant's own pop-ups and voice-assistant replies all show them in your language. The allowance payout message now uses your points name instead of the word "points".

Automations and scripts see the same errors as before: a refused action is still a validation error, and the English text is unchanged apart from the quotation marks and points name above.

🌍 Fixed: entity names and action drop-downs are translated

• Entity names — the overview, chores, rewards, points, stats, badges, wishlist, watch, approvals, activity sensors, the complete/claim buttons and the activity events now have names in your Home Assistant language, e.g. "TaskMate Punkte von Malia". Entity ids stay exactly as they are, on existing installs and on new ones in any language, so dashboards, cards and automations keep working.
• Action drop-downs — every choice list in Developer Tools → Actions and in the automation editor (difficulty, rotation, tiers, moods, pet species, sounds, inspection windows and more) shows labels instead of ids like every_2_days.
• Setup — the setup dialog suggests the points name in your Home Assistant language ("Sterne", "Étoiles") instead of always "Stars".

🐛 Fixed: other bugs found during the check

• Points Display card editor — the header colour picker threw an error and didn't change the colour.
• Child card — stopping a timed chore left the celebration stuck on screen.
• Rewards card (designed styles) — the claim confirmation could show a negative "Remaining" for a jackpot or savings-pool reward; it now uses the pool's total, like the classic style, and the claim button's tooltip shows when a limited reward can be claimed again.
• Auction, Bounty and Routine cards — the card picker's preview showed an error instead of asking you to pick a child.
• Badges card — filtering to a tier with no badges said "0 of N earned"; it now says there are no badges in that tier.
• Weekly and Activity cards on phones — in German, the weekly stats and the console style's activity times ran past the card's edge at phone width.

Changed

• Badge combinator values in the add_badge / update_badge actions are now and / or in the drop-down (Home Assistant requires lower case). AND and OR still work in existing automations.

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Full details are in the Manual: Achievement Badges.

Full changelog: v7.8.0...v7.8.1