What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.11.17
This release adds support for the Echo Dot 3rd gen (donut) Kiosk Satellite Edition image, lets you reorder the dashboard view rotation by drag and fixes the update check when GitHub's API refuses the request. It also fixes the microphone gain slider on the Echo Shows, a crash with plugins after an update on Android 10 and a few display issues.
New Feature: Echo Dot 3rd gen (donut) image
The Kiosk Satellite Edition of LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11) is now available for the 3rd generation Echo Dot (donut, model D9N29T from 2018). It is the repository's own port, with its own device tree, audio driver layer and kernel. It installs Kiosk Satellite on first boot, grants every permission it needs and makes it the device owner, and Kiosk Satellite runs headless on it as on the Echo Dot (2nd gen). The image will be released shortly after this version. The 2019 to 2020 revision of the Dot (model C78MP8) has different hardware and is not supported. See the Echo Dot (3rd gen) guide.
- Microphone base gain for the Dot. The image hands Kiosk Satellite a raw microphone that picks up the same sound about 26 dB quieter than the 2nd generation's, so Kiosk Satellite adds a 27 dB base gain under Microphone gain. The slider's 0 dB is the right level for the device and a gain set before goes back to 0 dB once.
- Equalizer preset for the Dot's speaker. The Dot starts with the equalizer on at 100 Hz +3 dB, 300 Hz +2 dB, 1 kHz -1 dB, 3 kHz -3 dB and 10 kHz +1 dB, with Automatic preamp off, the media volume at 85% and the intercom volume at 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.
- System updates, the buttons and the light ring. Kiosk Satellite shows new releases of the image and installs them, also from the Firmware entity in Home Assistant. The Action and volume buttons work as on the 2nd gen Dot, the privacy button's state always matches the VS Mute switch and LED Control drives the light ring.
Improvements
- Reorder the dashboard view rotation. In Settings > Home Assistant > Dashboard View Rotation, every view and every external page now has a drag handle, on the device and in the remote admin. Drag a row by its handle to change the rotation order, so a new entry no longer means removing the others and adding them again. In the remote admin, the handle works with a finger on a phone or tablet and a mouse can drag a row by any part of it. Wide screens also show Move up and Move down buttons on each row. The views still rotate first and the external pages after them.
Fixes
- Update check fails when GitHub's API refuses the request (#1416). GitHub's API answers 60 requests an hour for each public IP address, shared with every other device and program on the network. Once that budget was used up, the check failed with
HTTP 403 from api.github.com. The app now reads the latest version from the release page on github.com when the API answers 403 or 429. An update found this way installs as usual but shows no release notes. A custom repository is not affected. - Microphone gain above 0 dB has no effect on the Echo Shows. On the Kiosk Satellite Edition images, the base gain and the Microphone gain slider together were held to 24 dB. On the Echo Show 8, with its 24 dB base gain, a positive slider value did nothing. On the Echo Show 5, with 20 dB, the slider added at most 4 dB. The slider now adds its full range on top of the base gain.
- Crash when a plugin runs after an app update on Android 10 (#1410). Android kept running a plugin's code compiled for the previous app version, so on Android 10 devices such as a Meta Portal a plugin could crash the whole app after an update, for example as soon as its screensaver started. That compiled code is now removed before a plugin loads. Plugins, their settings and their enabled state are not touched.
- Black screen after switching from Compass to Classic navigation. Changing Settings > Navigation from Compass to Classic while on Quick Controls, the Music Library or the calendar left the screen black once Settings closed, until the app restarted. The dashboard now shows right away.
- Thin line on the right and bottom edges of the Website screensaver (#1402). On screens with a fractional pixel density, such as the Galaxy Tab A9, the Website and Home Assistant Media screensavers stopped one or two pixels short of the right and bottom edges and the dashboard showed through. The page now reaches every edge.