@@ -33,38 +33,33 @@ body:
     validations:
       required: true
 
-  - type: dropdown
+  # Text boxes rather than drop-downs: GitHub only pre-fills text fields from
+  # a link, and the panel's Help & feedback page fills these in for you.
+
+  - type: input
     id: ha_install_type
     attributes:
       label: Home Assistant Installation Type
-      options:
-        - Home Assistant OS (HAOS)
-        - Home Assistant Supervised
-        - Home Assistant Container (Docker)
-        - Home Assistant Core
-        - Not sure
+      description: "One of: Home Assistant OS (HAOS), Home Assistant Supervised, Home Assistant Container (Docker), Home Assistant Core, Not sure. Found in Settings → System → About"
+      placeholder: e.g. Home Assistant OS (HAOS)
     validations:
       required: true
 
-  - type: dropdown
+  - type: input
     id: install_method
     attributes:
       label: TaskMate Installation Method
-      options:
-        - HACS (custom repository)
-        - Manual (copied files)
+      description: "One of: HACS (default), HACS (custom repository), Manual (copied files)"
+      placeholder: e.g. HACS (default)
     validations:
       required: true
 
-  - type: dropdown
+  - type: input
     id: lovelace_mode
     attributes:
       label: Lovelace Mode
-      description: Found in Settings → Dashboards → ⋮ menu → Edit → Manage Resources
-      options:
-        - Storage (default — managed via UI)
-        - YAML (configuration.yaml)
-        - Not sure
+      description: "One of: Storage (default — managed via UI), YAML (configuration.yaml), Not sure. Found in Settings → Dashboards → ⋮ menu → Edit → Manage Resources"
+      placeholder: e.g. Storage (default — managed via UI)
     validations:
       required: true
 
@@ -111,7 +106,9 @@ body:
         - Sometimes — happens intermittently
         - Once — only happened one time
     validations:
-      required: true
+      # Optional so a report from the panel (which can't pre-select a
+      # drop-down) isn't asked twice; the panel puts its answer in the text.
+      required: false
 
   # ── Affected Area ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -149,7 +146,7 @@ body:
         - Bonus points (weekend / streak / perfect week)
         - Other
     validations:
-      required: true
+      required: false
 
   # ── Sensor & Entity State ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ body:
         - New card (not listed above)
         - Other / not sure
     validations:
-      required: true
+      required: false
 
   # ── Alternatives ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ body:
         - Important — a gap that affects my daily use
         - Critical — a blocker for me using TaskMate properly
     validations:
-      required: true
+      required: false
 
   # ── Use Case ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+"""What the admin panel's Help & feedback page fills into a GitHub issue.
+
+The page builds a pre-filled ``issues/new`` link; nothing is sent from Home
+Assistant. This gathers the environment half of a bug report — the bit people
+get wrong or leave out by hand: versions, how HA and TaskMate are installed,
+the Lovelace resource mode, rough sizes and the health check's issue codes.
+
+It never says who the family are: counts only, no names, and the health
+check contributes its issue *codes*, not its messages (those name chores).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+from typing import Any
+
+import homeassistant.const as ha_const
+from homeassistant.core import HomeAssistant
+from homeassistant.loader import async_get_integration
+
+from .const import DOMAIN
+
+_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+REPO_FULL_NAME = "tempus2016/taskmate"
+
+# HA's system_info installation_type → the bug template's dropdown options.
+_INSTALL_TYPES = {
+    "Home Assistant OS": "haos",
+    "Home Assistant Supervised": "supervised",
+    "Home Assistant Container": "container",
+    "Unsupported Third Party Container": "container",
+    "Home Assistant Core": "core",
+}
+
+
+async def _installation_type(hass: HomeAssistant) -> tuple[str, str]:
+    """(template key, HA's own wording, e.g. "Home Assistant OS")."""
+    try:
+        from homeassistant.helpers.system_info import async_get_system_info
+
+        info = await async_get_system_info(hass)
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — a report without it is still a report
+        _LOGGER.debug("TaskMate feedback: system info unavailable", exc_info=True)
+        return "unknown", ""
+    raw = str(info.get("installation_type") or "")
+    return _INSTALL_TYPES.get(raw, "unknown"), raw
+
+
+def _install_method(hass: HomeAssistant) -> str:
+    """How TaskMate itself was installed: hacs_default, hacs_custom, manual or unknown.
+
+    Reads HACS's in-memory repository list. That is HACS's internal API, so
+    any surprise in its shape degrades to "unknown" rather than failing.
+    """
+    if "hacs" not in hass.config.components:
+        return "manual"
+    try:
+        hacs = hass.data.get("hacs")
+        repo = hacs.repositories.get_by_full_name(REPO_FULL_NAME)
+        if repo is None:
+            return "manual"
+        if not getattr(repo.data, "installed", True):
+            return "manual"
+        return "hacs_default" if hacs.repositories.is_default(str(repo.data.id)) else "hacs_custom"
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001
+        _LOGGER.debug("TaskMate feedback: could not read HACS repositories", exc_info=True)
+        return "unknown"
+
+
+def _lovelace_mode(hass: HomeAssistant) -> str:
+    """storage, yaml or unknown — where Lovelace resources are managed.
+
+    HA keeps this as a dataclass since 2024.12 (``mode``, later renamed
+    ``resource_mode``) and as a plain dict before it.
+    """
+    data = hass.data.get("lovelace")
+    if data is None:
+        return "unknown"
+    if isinstance(data, dict):
+        mode = data.get("resource_mode") or data.get("mode")
+    else:
+        mode = getattr(data, "resource_mode", None) or getattr(data, "mode", None)
+    mode = str(mode or "").lower()
+    return mode if mode in ("storage", "yaml") else "unknown"
+
+
+def _entry_id(hass: HomeAssistant, coordinator) -> str:
+    entry = getattr(coordinator, "config_entry", None)
+    if entry is not None and getattr(entry, "entry_id", None):
+        return str(entry.entry_id)
+    for key, value in hass.data.get(DOMAIN, {}).items():
+        if value is coordinator:
+            return str(key)
+    return ""
+
+
+async def async_feedback_info(hass: HomeAssistant, coordinator) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """The environment summary for a bug report or feature request."""
+    integration = await async_get_integration(hass, DOMAIN)
+    install_type, install_type_raw = await _installation_type(hass)
+    storage = coordinator.storage
+    children = storage.get_children()
+    try:
+        health = coordinator.health_report()
+        health_codes = sorted({str(i.get("code", "")) for i in health.get("issues", []) if i.get("code")})
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001
+        _LOGGER.debug("TaskMate feedback: health report failed", exc_info=True)
+        health_codes = []
+    settings = storage.get_settings() or {}
+    return {
+        "integration_version": str(integration.version or ""),
+        "ha_version": str(getattr(ha_const, "__version__", "")),
+        "installation_type": install_type,
+        "installation_type_raw": install_type_raw,
+        "install_method": _install_method(hass),
+        "lovelace_mode": _lovelace_mode(hass),
+        "language": str(getattr(hass.config, "language", "") or ""),
+        "counts": {
+            "children": sum(1 for c in children if not getattr(c, "is_adult", False)),
+            "adults": sum(1 for c in children if getattr(c, "is_adult", False)),
+            "chores": len(storage.get_chores()),
+            "rewards": len(storage.get_rewards()),
+        },
+        "card_design": str(settings.get("card_design") or "classic"),
+        "health_codes": health_codes,
+        "entry_id": _entry_id(hass, coordinator),
+    }
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@
 WS_REPORT_HEALTH: Final = "taskmate/reports/health"
 WS_REPORT_QUALITY: Final = "taskmate/reports/quality"
 WS_REPORT_MOODS: Final = "taskmate/reports/moods"
+# Help & feedback page: the environment half of a GitHub issue.
+WS_FEEDBACK_INFO: Final = "taskmate/feedback/info"
 WS_SCHEDULED_LIST: Final = "taskmate/scheduled/list"
 WS_SCHEDULED_ADD: Final = "taskmate/scheduled/add"
 WS_SCHEDULED_REMOVE: Final = "taskmate/scheduled/remove"
@@ -269,6 +271,7 @@
     WS_REPORT_HEALTH,
     WS_REPORT_QUALITY,
     WS_REPORT_MOODS,
+    WS_FEEDBACK_INFO,
     WS_SETUP_CATALOGUE,
 }
 
@@ -1150,6 +1153,17 @@ async def _ws_report_health(hass, connection, msg, coordinator):
     connection.send_result(msg["id"], coordinator.health_report())
 
 
+@websocket_api.websocket_command({vol.Required("type"): WS_FEEDBACK_INFO})
+@websocket_api.async_response
+@_admin_only
+async def _ws_feedback_info(hass, connection, msg, coordinator):
+    # Imported here: feedback.py needs homeassistant.loader, which nothing
+    # else on this module's import path does.
+    from .feedback import async_feedback_info
+
+    connection.send_result(msg["id"], await async_feedback_info(hass, coordinator))
+
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Scheduled config changes (#675)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -3290,6 +3304,7 @@ async def _ws_config_import(hass, connection, msg, coordinator):
     _ws_report_friction,
     _ws_report_projection,
     _ws_report_health,
+    _ws_feedback_info,
     _ws_report_quality,
     _ws_report_moods,
     _ws_templates_export,