What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.18
When a tablet loses its Wi-Fi, the dashboard on screen keeps showing whatever it last rendered and quietly stops being true. This release makes that visible, and makes the kiosk pick itself up when the network comes back.
Improvement: Network connection notices
- A Network connection lost notice now sits at the bottom of the screen for as long as the device has no network, replaced briefly by Network connection restored when it returns. It takes no touch away from the dashboard underneath, and it gives way to the screensaver, the camera view and anything else that owns the whole screen.
- Reloading with no network no longer lands on the browser engine's own error page, the dark screen with a fallen Android robot and a
net::error string that reads on a wall panel as a broken app. In its place is a No network connection page that says whether the device has no network at all or the dashboard could not be reached, with a Retry button. - That page covers a failed load only. A dashboard that is merely stale keeps showing, since a page nobody can update is still worth reading at a glance.
- The dashboard now comes straight back when the network does, including from a failed load. Until now that case could only be recovered by the blind retry timer, because there is no page there to diagnose; it is re-requested as soon as the interface is up.
- Retries of a failed load back off (5 seconds, then 10, 20, 40 and 60) instead of hammering the same unreachable address every 5 seconds all night. Nothing waits on that ladder when the network returns, and it starts over after the next successful load.
- A server error on the main page, such as the secure context proxy's 502 while Home Assistant is unreachable, now shows the same notice instead of the empty page those answers render as.