Xbox controls work again on the console, and they no longer need the daily web sign-in.
Xbox through the Xbox Family Settings service
Microsoft moved the Xbox controls into the Xbox Family Settings app, which uses its own service. The Xbox schedule the integration wrote until now was accepted and read back, but the console no longer enforced it (#70). Thanks to @erasmus83 (#69), and to @theSiegs for the measurements and the console tests:
- The Xbox lock, the Xbox day limits, the Xbox limits switch and Xbox play time now go through the Xbox Family Settings service. Confirmed on a real console: the lock pauses the child, unlock releases them, the limits show in the Xbox Family Settings app.
- No daily sign-in for Xbox. That service runs on its own long-lived sign-in, so Xbox no longer depends on the Family web session that some accounts must renew every 24 hours (#52).
- Linking is usually automatic after a sign-in with Xbox ticked. If the Connection sensor shows
xbox_family: not_linked, tick Link the Xbox Family Settings sign-in in the integration options and follow the steps. - If that service fails for a poll, the integration falls back to the previous path for that poll. Without a link, nothing changes.
- The Connection sensor reports the link state and how many children were matched to an Xbox account.
Other
- "Extra time" granted on the Xbox now reads as unlocked instead of unknown.
- Removing the integration also deletes the Xbox sign-in it kept.