What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.35
A smoother rotation fade, stricter clap detection, and crash traces that survive the restart.
Improved: The dashboard rotation fade is much smoother (#189)
- Blending the outgoing and incoming views on top of each other could not hide its mechanics on real dashboards: transparent card areas let the old view show through, and the final swap always read as a visible step. Rotation now fades the screen out to your theme's background color, switches views while fully covered, and fades back in once the new view has finished rendering, on longer and gentler legs.
- Views being shown for the first time simply build behind the cover, so even the first pass through the rotation fades cleanly.
- The toggle is now called Fade between views; your existing setting carries over. Moving to a different dashboard or an external page still switches instantly.
Improved: Clap detection now requires sequences to look deliberate (discussion #177)
- Claps must come out of a calm moment, keep an even rhythm, and stay at one loudness. Ordinary clatter, like a child playing with toys near the device, shares a clap's impulse shape but rarely its regularity, so false triggers drop sharply without making real claps harder.
- A new Clap detection setting on the Gestures page (on the device and in the remote admin) adds a Strict mode that tightens all three checks and wants louder claps, for homes where the standard checks still misfire.
New: Crash traces survive the restart (#21)
- Android's own crash log rotates within minutes on a busy device, so by the time logs are copied after the app has come back, the actual crash trace is usually gone. The app now writes the full trace to its own storage at the moment of the crash, and the next start surfaces it at the top of the app log, marked as coming from a previous run, where the Logs screen and the remote admin already look.
- The record keeps until the next crash replaces it, so a report filed days later still carries the trace.
Fix: Remote admin rows no longer overlap on narrow screens (#202)
- On phone-width viewports, rows carrying both a status and a button (like the permission rows' "Not granted" next to "Grant on device") painted them on top of each other; controls now sit side by side and wrap below the row's name when there is no room. The same fix covers the brightness slider's value and the permission notice rows.