Criteria Documentation

[veilofsecurity]

I looked around and didn't see anything in the documentation about how to use challenge and achievement criteria. In the achievement example 3 it lists some interesting achievement ideas and I was looking for how to implement those. Do you have any documentation or samples I can follow?

[ad-ha]

True, there is no much information about it.

This is mostly a field where if you select Chore Total you may use as support for criteria (text box for your own reference), but it's not used for calculations nor anything.

[veilofsecurity]

Ah ok. Any clues on how I could accomplish the variety and participation achievements?

🎨 Chore Explorer: Complete 10 different types of chores
💡 Skill Builder: Complete chores from 5 different categories (e.g., cleaning, organizing, feeding pets)
🛡️ Helper Hero: Help a sibling or friend complete a shared chore 5 times

[ad-ha]

Hi, those seem really interesting, but right now we do not have a way to track that.

My take on this would be:
🎨 Chore Explorer: Complete 10 different types of chores
You can set an achievement to track 10 chores, but not differentiate by "type"

💡 Skill Builder: Complete chores from 5 different categories (e.g., cleaning, organizing, feeding pets)
As there are no categories, we cannot manage this either. At least, yet. I may give it a thought.

🛡️ Helper Hero: Help a sibling or friend complete a shared chore 5 times
Well this cannot be done either. I mean, challenges do not differentiate between normal or shared chores.

Although, we are introducing Bonus on the next release and you may track this "manually" (using HA labels you may define labels for each chore entity) and give a Bonus (with the labels and the service for Bonus, you could keep track of the chore labels and chore status and once all of those change to approved you could call the award bonus service).

That's the best I can do right now.

[veilofsecurity]

Ok good to know. Those examples were straight from the wiki so I assumed there was some easy way to achieve them. Will think about other ways with templates or groups in HA.

[ccpk1]

My bad on that set of examples. I was putting those together rather quickly to get the concepts out there, but also trying to show how you might use the tool to be creative coming up with challenges to loosely track, not that the system did all of them exactly... The intent was more manual agreement of those special types, but when you read it back, I can see how you would easily think differently. I removed those for now. Thanks for the feedback!