What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.2
📷 Scan your token during on-boarding setup
Creating a long-lived access token in Home Assistant also shows a QR code and the setup wizard can now read it. On devices with a camera, a scan button appears right in the token field, so the one genuinely painful step of onboarding, typing a 180-character token on a tablet keyboard, is gone. The remote admin's wizard keeps paste where a real clipboard exists.
👁️ At a Glance shows attributes
Requested in #132: each entity chosen for the At a Glance row now has a gear button, on the device and in the remote admin, that lets you pick which value the row displays. The picker lists the entity's attributes with their live readings, so instead of your weather entity saying "Sunny" it can show the actual temperature, and instead of a vacuum's state you can pin its battery.
🕐 A photo behind the clock
Also from #132: the Clock screensaver can now have a background photo, picked from the device's local media in the new Background photo setting. The clock draws over it with a subtle dark shade, so the time and the At a Glance row stay readable on any photo and with any clock face. If the small corner clock over your photo screensaver is too easy to miss from across the room, this is the full-size alternative.
Improvements
- Dropdowns are real controls now: every dropdown in the app sits on the same bordered box the remote admin's selects use, instead of rendering as bare text that read like another row title.
Fixes
- Settings, the Automations editor, the Voice Satellite panel and other non-dashboard pages no longer show stale states while the "Filter dashboard updates" optimization is on (#131). The filter now recognizes non-dashboard panels directly and replays every entity's current state whenever it stands down, so pages arrive seeing the truth; previously only an app restart caught them up. Update entities are also always forwarded, keeping the sidebar's update badges current.
- Settings rows with dropdowns no longer squeeze their text into a sliver on portrait phones: narrow screens stack the row as title, dropdown, description, while wide screens keep the dropdown in its usual trailing spot.
- On narrow screens, long page titles such as Home Assistant Configuration no longer get cut off at the screen edge, and the Made with footer stays centered.