What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.62
The app launcher learns to coexist with a pinned kiosk, and the Bluetooth proxy log learns to answer the question every stuck-proxy report ends up at: are the advertisements actually reaching Home Assistant?
Fixed: The app launcher works while "Disable home button" holds
- Launching an app from a pinned kiosk only produced Android's "to unpin, swipe up and hold" toast, and manually unpinning to get around it left the kiosk unpinned until the setting was toggled (#250).
- The kiosk now unpins itself for the launch and re-checks the pin every time it returns to the foreground, so the pin comes back on its own after the launched app closes, and after a manual unpin too. On devices without device ownership the re-pin shows Android's pinning confirmation again, the ceiling Android sets for screen pinning; the Apps row under Allowed Actions now says the launch drops the pin.
New: The proxy log shows whether Home Assistant is taking the Bluetooth advertisements
- A kiosk can hear plenty of devices locally while Home Assistant receives nothing from it, and until now no surface could tell that apart from a working proxy (#246).
- The log now records when Home Assistant subscribes to (and unsubscribes from) the advertisements, a relay watchdog writes one line when the device keeps hearing advertisements but none have been forwarded for two minutes (with the received and forwarded counters) and another when forwarding resumes, and the scanner notes when advertisements start flowing again after a failure streak, naming whether the minimal-settings fallback from 2026.8.57 is in effect.
- Together these split the previously indistinguishable case into its three possible causes: scanning trouble, a missing subscription, or a wedged relay.