Changelog

Unreleased

Initial open-source release.

• Calendar (iCal), Tasks & Chores + points economy + Rewards (Todoist), Meals + Recipes + Grocery (Mealie), Weather (Open-Meteo), optional Budget (Monarch Money sidecar), companion mobile PWA.
• Family roster is fully config-driven (config/members.json) — any number of members, wired end-to-end from GET /api/members through to the wall UI's layouts, which wrap/scroll instead of assuming a fixed family size.
• Data-source adapters (tasks/calendar/meals/budget/weather/photos) sit behind a provider registry, so swapping one out is a config change and a new file.
• Full OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the entire /api/* surface, served as interactive docs.
• Budget: This Month / Last Month / Year to Date, backed by the Monarch sidecar now keeping a real history directory instead of one current-month file; a true-net "safe to spend" hero number; category rows sorted by spend.
• Journal: a first-party family feed/timeline (photos, tags, multi-member tagging, "on this day") written from the phone via a new PWA composer — the app's first screen with actual free-text typing.
• Rewards: default catalog expanded from 5 to 18 entries across four cost tiers (small/medium/large/big), skewed toward experiences and privileges over toys — see Rewards.
• Calendar: Home's two-week hero and Calendar's own Month view are now tappable — tapping a day jumps to Day view for that date, and tapping "Next two weeks" opens Month view. Event dots are now per-event avatar chips (falling back to a monogram or plain dot) instead of plain color dots — see Calendar.
• Chores: a kid marking a chore done gets a little celebration — a confetti burst from their avatar, an avatar pop, a +1 star tick, and a chime. Opt in per member with "kid": true in the roster; a Settings toggle turns it off. Built with plain canvas + Web Audio (no new dependencies, no sound files) — see Settings.
• Meals shortcut in the companion PWA: an optional Meals ↗ tab that opens your Mealie app in one tap, so phones don't need a second home-screen icon. It's a launcher (a real link that hands off to Mealie's own app), not an embed. Set MEALIE_APP_URL to the HTTPS URL your phone reaches Mealie at — blank hides the tab — see Mealie.
• Calendar reliability & performance: fixed events flickering between date ranges — the Home and Calendar screens each hydrate a different-width window into one shared store, and a full store replace let the two heartbeat fetches race; each fetch now merges only its own window. Parsed feeds are cached per URL (with in-flight de-duplication and stale-on-error fallback) and the request window is day-aligned, so most refreshes reuse a warm parse instead of re-downloading and re-expanding recurring events every cycle. webcal:// subscribe URLs (iCloud, Google) are normalized to https://, and outbound DNS prefers IPv4 so IPv6-only-record setups don't stall feed fetches.
• Budget is now locked by default: unlike the rest of the wall, opening Budget asks for a parent's PIN first (BUDGET_UNLOCK_MEMBERS, default dad,mom), and re-locks after 15 minutes — see Budget. docker-compose.yml's port 8080 publish is now configurable via BIND_ADDR, so self-hosters can restrict it to localhost and pair it with tailscale serve for tailnet-only access instead of the whole LAN — see self-hosting.
• Added a Roadmap page (voice assistant, live updates, hardening).
• Live updates (SSE): writes made anywhere — the wall, a phone — now show up on every connected display in under a second (GET /api/live); the 5-minute poll heartbeat stays as the fallback.
• On-device Settings screen: sleep schedule + screensaver timings editable from the wall, behind the parent PIN gate; saved values persist in the database and override the .env defaults — see Settings.
• Weekly & monthly recaps in the Journal: every Sunday evening (and the 1st of the month) an entry tagged Recap is auto-posted — chores done, stars earned, streaks, redemptions, and the week's most-loved journal moment — so past weeks stay browsable in the Timeline — see Journal.
• Push notifications (companion PWA): optional chore reminder + "what's for dinner" digest to the parents' phones; needs VAPID keys and HTTPS — see Self-hosting.
• Presence endpoint (scaffold): POST /api/presence for a future PIR/mmWave wall sensor — wakes the screensaver over the live stream.
• Babysitter mode: a one-tap wall lockdown for when a sitter is watching the kids — the wall shows a full-screen emergency card (parent phone numbers, emergency contacts, notes) and seals off every other screen until a parent's PIN returns to the dashboard. The lock is a server-side flag the wall reads on boot, so a kiosk reload can't escape it; the emergency info is edited from the parents' phones — see Babysitter mode.
• Chore taps survive network blips: completing a chore now retries the underlying Todoist write through a transient DNS/network hiccup instead of silently reverting; if it still can't save, the row flags itself briefly rather than becoming a mystery no-op. Added a self-hosting troubleshooting note for the flaky-container-DNS case that caused it (feeds dropping with ENOTFOUND, chores bouncing back).
• Hardening: schema migrations (PRAGMA user_version), nightly SQLite backups onto ./data/backups/, calendar feeds now degrade per-feed instead of blanking the whole calendar, CI (lint + format + tests + build + bundle budget), test suites for the points economy and PIN auth, eslint + prettier across the repo.