What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.1

🎉 Kiosk Satellite is now out of beta!

Two month ago, Kiosk Satellite did not exist. Thirty-some beta releases later, it runs dashboards, listens for wake words, plays synchronized audio, streams cameras, and manages itself from any browser. Today it graduates: this is the first stable release of Kiosk Satellite, and I genuinely believe that, in combination with Voice Satellite, Kiosk Satellite is now the best kiosk application for Home Assistant out there. That feels worth celebrating!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported the development of Kiosk Satellite through Buy Me a Coffee and GitHub Sponsors. Free, open source software is a thankless endeavor, but thanks to our supporters, we continue.

Starting with this release, Kiosk Satellite follows the same versioning scheme as Home Assistant and Voice Satellite: year.month.release. The -beta suffix is gone, and updating works exactly as before, on the device or from the drawer's update notice.

✨ A refined interface

Leaving beta deserved a proper polish, so this release is a full design pass over the app and the remote admin. Both surfaces now draw from one design system: a single spacing and corner scale, one card and heading treatment on every settings page, and Rubik, the typeface the screensaver clocks already use, carrying the titles everywhere.

Dialogs share one anatomy in both UIs. The title and the buttons stay on screen while only the body scrolls, pickers use real radio rows with room next to the scrollbar, and Save and Cancel finally render as a matched pair, at one height and width, everywhere.

Improvements

• Buttons are consistent across both UIs: compact pills at one size, with secondary actions sharing a single outlined style.
• Tab-like controls in the remote admin, such as the Logs source and the File Manager location, are now real segmented tabs matching the app's segmented buttons.
• Long setting descriptions were rewritten to one or two short sentences, so settings rows no longer wrap into walls of text on small screens.
• The drawer is tidier: Web Console moved out of the menu into Settings > Logs, Toggle HA Kiosk Mode is now HA Kiosk Mode, and Default Camera View is now Camera View.
• The remote admin's Dashboard tab is now Overview, its phone-width top bar shows the app icon and a proper menu button, and log colors are legible in the light theme.

Fixes

• Loading the remote admin no longer logs two failed requests: dashboards without a stored view config, such as auto-generated and strategy dashboards, now correctly report no views, and every picker falls back to the dashboard's default view as before.