What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.11.16
This release adds an equalizer for the device's speaker, adds support for the Echo Show 8 (2nd gen) Kiosk Satellite Edition image, gives the Echo Dot a fuller sound out of the box and adds dashboard links for plugin actions. It also fixes Now Playing losing the track in Music Assistant sync groups.
New Feature: Equalizer
- Equalizer for the speaker. Settings > Screen & Audio > Equalizer shapes the sound with five bands at 100 Hz, 300 Hz, 1 kHz, 3 kHz and 10 kHz, each from -12 to +12 dB. It applies to everything Kiosk Satellite plays itself: Sendspin, AirPlay and plugin players, text to speech and assistant answers, chimes, alarms, the intercom and DLNA audio. Video, dashboard sounds and touch sounds are not equalized. The equalizer is off by default and its settings stay on each device under Fleet Management. See Equalizer.
- Automatic preamp. On by default, it lowers the level by the largest boost so the speaker does not distort.
- Echo cancellation is not affected. The equalizer runs before the point where the echo canceller takes its reference, so the wake word keeps working over music and a band can be changed while music plays.
New Feature: Echo Show 8 (2nd gen) image
The Kiosk Satellite Edition of LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11) is now available for the the 2nd generation Echo Show 8 (athena) that installs Kiosk Satellite on first boot, grants every permission it needs and makes it the home screen. The image will be released shortly after this version. See the Echo Show 8 (2nd gen) guide.
Improvements
- Fuller sound on the Echo Dot. On the Kiosk Satellite Edition image, the Echo Dot now starts with an equalizer preset for its speaker, which is weak from 300 to 500 Hz and loud around 3 kHz: 100 Hz at +1 dB, 300 Hz at +2 dB, 1 kHz at -3 dB, 3 kHz at -7 dB and 10 kHz at -1 dB, with Automatic preamp off. With the preset the media volume goes to 85% and the intercom volume to 100%, the levels recommended next to a master and assistant volume of 100%. A Dot that updates gets the preset and the volumes once, as long as its equalizer was never set. Any change made afterwards stays.
- Dashboard links for plugin actions (#1385).
ks://plugin/<plugin id>/<action id>runs a plugin action from a dashboard button, the same as its entry in the kiosk menu, so a button opens a plugin's screen on the kiosk that was tapped. Open an action on the plugin's page, on the kiosk or in the remote admin, to copy its link from Dashboard link. Anything after the action ID goes to the plugin, so a plugin that supports it can take a camera name or another value from the link. See Dashboard Links. - Microphone base gain for the 2nd generation Echo Show 8. On the Kiosk Satellite Edition image, the 2nd generation Echo Show 8 now adds the same 24 dB base gain under Microphone gain as the 1st generation. The slider's 0 dB is the right level for the device and a gain set before goes back to 0 dB once.
Fixes
- Now Playing loses the track and its buttons in a Music Assistant sync group playing Spotify Connect (#1393). With the kiosk's Sendspin player in a sync group that played a live source such as Spotify Connect or AirPlay, the floating player and Now Playing showed a music note with no title or cover and the previous, play and next buttons went away after a few seconds. The buttons now follow what the source can do on the group and the short stop between two tracks no longer removes the track.
- Now Playing shows a music note instead of the cover after the Sendspin player starts again (#1393). After a switch to another player and back, a track could show the music note for its whole length or a cover kept from before, in the floating player and in Now Playing. Cover frame numbers no longer repeat while the app runs and a frame that cannot be read falls back to a newer frame or to the cover's address.
- Plugin player shows an earlier track's cover after it is picked again (jxlarrea/kiosk-satellite-plugins#66). After a plugin update, a reinstall or a switch to another player and back, the first tracks could show covers from the earlier session, in Now Playing and in the Android media session.
- Plugins can undo their Shizuku changes when they stop. Kiosk Satellite closed a plugin's Shizuku access before it called the plugin's
stop(), so a plugin could not remove what it had set up as root, such as the iptables rules an AirPlay 2 receiver adds. Those stayed until a reboot. Shizuku now stays open whilestop()runs. - Compass layout lines run past the last view. In Settings > Navigation, the lines of the Compass layout map ran on to the Add tile on a side with one view or none. Each line now ends at the last view on its side.
- Camera view dropdown in the remote admin's Add a view dialog. In Settings > Navigation, the dropdown that picks a camera view when adding or replacing a Compass view showed as the browser's plain control. It now looks like the other dropdowns.