What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.50
Fixed
- The dashboard now keeps running while the app is behind another app. The browser suspends a page whose window is not on screen, which on a tablet took about a minute, and with the page stopped nothing was left to answer Home Assistant's connection heartbeat, so the server dropped the connection and everything riding it went unavailable until someone brought the kiosk back to the front. Voice Satellite's entities were the visible half of that, going unavailable about a minute after the app was sent to the background and coming back when it returned. The dashboard's window is now reported as on screen for as long as the app is alive, so the connection, the page's timers and anything it is playing all carry on, and the page is no longer told it went to the background at all. Measured on a Galaxy Tab S8, this costs nothing: the dashboard uses the same processor time in the background as it does in front, because it is doing the same work rather than being stopped and restarted. Pausing the dashboard under the screensaver is unaffected and still stops it drawing.