What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.13
Improvement: Permissions Manager
- The Device settings now end with a Permissions Manager group, on the device and in the Remote Administration UI alike, listing every Android grant the app can use in one place: microphone, unrestricted battery, camera, notifications, display over other apps, modify system settings, system UI guard, device admin and location. Each row explains what the grant is for and carries a button that starts it.
- Rows read Granted, Missing when something you have switched on needs a grant it does not have, or Not granted when nothing needs it yet, so an unused permission stays quiet instead of looking broken, and can still be given ahead of time. Granting always happens on the device: the buttons here and in the remote admin both open an Android dialog or settings screen on the tablet, and the row updates itself once it lands.
- Until now, permissions only appeared inside the feature groups that use them. That left grants no enabled feature happened to ask for unreachable, and the unrestricted battery exemption was the worst case: it is what keeps the Home Assistant connection and the MQTT entities alive while the screen is off, yet it was only listed under Voice Satellite background listening, so a kiosk without voice had no way to find it.
Other Improvements
- Setup now asks for the unrestricted battery permission on every device rather than only when Voice Satellite background listening was on, covering the wizard on the device, the same wizard in the Remote Administration UI, and a device provisioned by importing a configuration.
- Permission rows describe what each grant allows rather than what it does for one feature, everywhere they appear, so the Voice Satellite, Kiosk Mode and Lockdown Mode groups now read the same as the Permissions Manager.