What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.11.22
This release adds Adaptive volume, which lowers the volume as the room gets quieter, the way Adaptive brightness follows the room's light. Compass navigation no longer loads the dashboard page when the layout has no dashboard view, and Compass views close more cleanly.
New Feature: Adaptive volume
The same volume is too quiet with the house full and too loud at night. A new page under Settings > Screen & Audio > Adaptive volume sets the volume from the room's noise level, measured with the microphone. See Adaptive Volume.
- Pick the volumes that follow the room. There is a switch each for Assistant, Media and Intercom. Assistant is on by default.
- Volume curve. Four points, each with a room noise level and a volume per switch, with all three curves on one chart. Drag a point or tap it to type its values.
- Your sliders stay the loud room level. The volumes on the curve are percentages of the Assistant, Media and Intercom sliders: 100% plays at the slider's level and 50% like the slider set to half. The sliders, the Home Assistant volume entities and the Music Assistant player volume keep working as before.
- Measured only while the device is silent. A volume is picked before a sound starts and holds until it ends, so changes in the room during playback are not used.
- Steady. The level rises after two loud readings in a row and falls slowly, so a slammed door or a quiet scene on TV does not move it.
- Works without Voice Satellite. The microphone opens for the level alone while the switch is on. A muted satellite keeps it closed.
- Alarms and the master volume are left alone. Alarms, the intercom's ring and the notification sound keep their own volume, and the master volume is never changed.
- Fleet. The main switch travels with Screen & Audio, like the Adaptive brightness switch. The three volume switches and the curve depend on the device and its room, so new fleet profiles leave them out.
- Device and remote admin. The page is on both.
Improvements
- No Home Assistant page without a dashboard view in Compass. With Compass navigation and no dashboard view in the layout, the dashboard page was still loaded and drawn behind the other views, cameras included. On a Tab S8 it took about half of the app's memory. It is no longer loaded in that case. It still loads for the Home Assistant Dashboard screensaver, also on the schedule, and when Voice Satellite runs in the dashboard. Without the page, the Dashboard view select and other navigation from Home Assistant do nothing, Current page and Dashboard view show unknown and browser_mod is not available. The page's saved data, such as its Home Assistant login, stays on the device and backups and restores still include it. See Navigation.
Fixes
- Close button on the Compass center view (#1452). The X on the center view closed it and then opened it again, since closing a view goes back to the center. The Music Library, Calendar, Alarms, Timers, App Launcher, Intercom and Now Playing no longer show the X while they are the center view. On any other view it still goes back to the center. Now Playing in the center also stays up on a tap, a double tap, a key press and motion, face, person or proximity detection, and back opens Quick Controls there.
- Flash when closing a Compass view. The X or back on a view beside the center closed that view before the center opened, so the dashboard or a black screen showed for a moment. The center now opens first.
- Pages from Home Assistant hidden under Compass. A page opened by Open URL, a dashboard link or Show Music Assistant opened behind a view that was not a dashboard, and swipes stopped working until something closed it. The page now shows over the view until it is closed with its X or back. Close overlays closes it and goes back to the center view.
- Home Assistant Dashboard screensaver under Compass. The screensaver showed the view on screen, such as Alarms, instead of the dashboard. The views now step aside while it shows.
- Compass views left open in Classic. Switching from Compass to Classic left the center view, such as Alarms, over the dashboard, and a page opened by a link stayed hidden under it. Classic now starts on the dashboard.
- Backup stuck during a page reload. A backup taken while the dashboard was reloading could wait for the page forever. The page's saved data is now read from storage when the page does not answer within five seconds.
- Ambient noise read DLNA music as the room. The Ambient noise sensor holds its value while the device plays its own sound, but music played through the DLNA renderer was measured as room noise. It now holds during DLNA playback too.