What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.65
Home Assistant cameras no longer need WebRTC: if the Home Assistant frontend can play a camera, Kiosk Satellite now can too.
New: Home Assistant cameras stream over HLS
- The Home Assistant camera import now accepts every streamable camera entity instead of only WebRTC-capable ones (#124), and remembers which transports each camera offers. Most cameras without a WebRTC provider behind them (no go2rtc in Home Assistant) only offer HLS, and those play now.
- A camera that offers both transports still tries WebRTC first for its near-realtime latency, and switches to HLS on its own when WebRTC does not work out on the device, joining the existing WebRTC-to-MSE fallback ladder (#160). HLS plays through ordinary video buffering, so it works on nearly every WebView, Fire tablets included, at the cost of a few seconds of delay.
- A new Prefer HLS over WebRTC toggle (Camera Streams, then Playback) flips the order, the counterpart of the MSE toggle: for devices whose WebRTC cannot play these streams, and the switch to force HLS when testing.
- Each camera's row in the Cameras list now names the formats it can play with (WebRTC, MSE, HLS), on the device and in the remote UI, so what a camera has available is visible at a glance.