Yoto Hacks allows you to have extra fine controls over playback times for specific cards. You can set which cards are allowed to play only during day time, night time, or set cards to be quarantined.
How to use
Once you activate Yoto Hacks, three new Family Groups will be created on your account (hack:quarantine, hack:day-only, hack:night-only). The cards, once played will be checked against these groups and, in case they are found, the card may stop playing. The day/night information used to determine which filter list to use will be collected from the actual device settings. The whole usage is intended to happen through the actual Yoto app and may take up to 10 minutes to sync to an online device.
hack:quarantine
This is for preventing playback of a specific content at any time. In other words: "This card becomes not playable".
hack:day-only
This is helpful when most of your content is allowed at night.
This is for specifying which cards are not allowed to be played at night. In other words: "Do not allow these cards to be played at night".
hack:night-only
This is helpful when most of your content is not allowed at night.
This is for specifying which cards are allowed to be played at night. In other words: Only allow these few cards are allowed to be played at night. IMPORTANT: If this group is not empty, any other content that is not part of this list will become restricted at night.
hack:playlist-*
This is a prefix for creating playlists of cards (e.g.: hack:playlist-dinosaurs, hack:playlist-sleep, hack:playlist-classical-music, etc.).
The cards will be played sequentially based the order shown in the yoto app. One card should only be part of one playlist. You can have multiple playlists, as long as they have such preffix. IMPORTANT: One card can only be in one playlist.
hack:filter-{startWeekDay}-{endWeekDay}-{startTime}-{endTime}
This is a prefix for creating specific block times, and optionally explicitly allow content. (e.g.: hack:filter-mon-fri-09:00-13:00, hack:filter-sun-sun-05:00-10:00).
(1) If the same day of the week is used for start and end, only that specific day is checked. (2) If no cards are in the group, ALL CONTENT is blocked. (3) Add items to the list to explicitly allow them during such time.
As an example, a group named hack:filter-mon-fri-09:00-13:00 would block any content to be played from Monday to Friday, between 9AM and 1PM. If you add the homework timer to such group, that would be the only playable card allowed during such period.
Technical information
Due to the nature of the implementation and actual limitations, the app will only work correctly while the Yoto device is connected to a wifi network.