What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.41
At a Glance entities on the Now Playing screen, new hardware diagnostic sensors for Home Assistant, and a fix for the Dashboard view select losing its options.
New: At a Glance entities on the Now Playing screen (#209)
- A new Show on Now Playing toggle in the At a Glance group, off by default, pins your configured entities to the bottom of the full-screen Now Playing view while music plays, with the same live states, icons and custom names as the screensaver row.
- The album art panel shrinks slightly and rides a little higher when the row is on, so everything fits even on short screens like the Echo Show.
- The row stays hidden while lyrics are showing, since those layouts already use every free pixel, and comes back on tracks without lyrics.
New: Hardware diagnostic sensors in Home Assistant (#213)
- Five new diagnostic MQTT sensors expose the rest of the remote admin's Device > Hardware data: Device (model as the state, Android version and OEM build as attributes), IPv4 address and IPv6 address (primary address as the state, every other address and a per-interface breakdown as attributes, so a script can tell a wired connection from a wireless one), App uptime and Network uptime (seconds since the app started and since the device's network came up, so a dashboard can highlight a kiosk that recently restarted or dropped offline).
- Addresses are re-checked once a minute and moments after any network change. Network uptime is read from the kernel's own timestamp on the interface's IP address, so it survives app restarts and only resets when the device actually reconnects or gets a new address; it reads unknown while the device is offline.
Fix: The Dashboard view select no longer loses its options after a Home Assistant restart (#214)
- If the periodic option refresh ran while the app's Home Assistant connection was down, the select's options collapsed to bare dashboard paths and Home Assistant started rejecting the device's retained view state ("Invalid option for select"). A failed view list read now keeps the last known options instead of downgrading them.
- Commanding the view select no longer reports the requested view as current when the page never actually moved (a non Home Assistant page on screen, or a navigation failure), and the app log now says why the page did not move instead of staying silent.