What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.76
Home Assistant can start and stop Voice Satellite on a kiosk and decide whether the engine auto starts, via ESPHome.
Added: Voice Satellite switches in the ESPHome integration (#288)
- Voice Satellite starts and stops the engine in the page, exactly as the Start and Stop buttons on the kiosk's own Voice Satellite settings do, and Voice Satellite auto start decides whether it comes up by itself when the dashboard loads.
- Between them an automation can hold the voice half back on a device that needs its first seconds for the dashboard and bring it up once the kiosk has settled: turn auto start off, and have the automation switch the engine on a minute after boot. On a panel where voice is not wanted at all, leave both off and the overhead goes with them.
- Both switches report what the page actually did rather than what was asked of it, so a start that cannot happen leaves the switch off instead of reading on, and both follow the engine wherever it is started or stopped from, the kiosk's own settings and the Voice Satellite panel included.