What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.84
New: Open palm and fingers count gestures
- Show fingers is a new gesture trigger: a hand showing one to four fingers, or an open hand, to the camera, each its own trigger, so five actions can live on one hand. Pick Show fingers in a gesture mapping, choose the count (1 finger, 2, 3, 4 or Open hand) and give it any of the usual actions: navigate to a view, open a camera view, start or stop the screensaver, call a service, run a script, trigger an automation, fire an event, or anything else a gesture can do. Requires a well lit environment.
- The first look that reads the configured count fires the action, about half a second after the hand is up on a slow device. The count then has to change, or the hand go, before the same mapping fires again, so switching from two fingers to an open hand fires both in turn. A second hand resting in view does not block it, and a hand at rest on a keyboard shows zero fingers and matches nothing.
- The gesture needs the camera enabled under Camera settings and a well lit room. While at least one hand mapping exists the camera runs whenever the screen is on, screensaver or not, the way Postpone screensaver on motion does. Exposure is steered by the frames themselves, a stop brighter when they come out dark (a front camera meters the whole room and leaves the person in front of it in shadow) and back down when they come out bright.
- Reach is a few steps, and the hand has to be in the picture: a front camera set at chest height sees a hand at shoulder height or above, not one shown at the waist. The detector looks at a square of the frame around wherever the picture just changed, the hand coming up, which is what lets it see a hand that spans a fifteenth of a wide-angle frame. Across the room it does not reach; claps remain the across-the-room gesture.
- Lockdown Mode and kiosk mode's Disable Gestures silence it like every other gesture, and the camera is not bound for it then.
New: Gesture actions that call Home Assistant confirm with a toast
- A gesture that calls a service, runs a script, triggers an automation or fires an event now shows a toast with the outcome, since those actions change nothing on the screen by themselves. It is titled for what it is (Home Assistant Service, Script, Automation or Event), with what ran underneath (Called light.turn_on, Ran script.morning, Triggered automation.lights_off, Fired event kiosk_gesture), or, in red, why the call could not be made: Home Assistant not configured, the connection down, the call rejected. The other actions are their own confirmation and stay as they were.
- Toasts are a fifth larger, the card, its icon, the title and the message text, so a confirmation is readable from where a gesture is made rather than only up close.
Fixed
- A notification pushed while the screen was off, whose duration then ran out before the screen came back, no longer stays on screen for good. Nothing is drawn while the screen is off, so the card arrived and expired without ever being shown, and the frame that finally drew it at the wake had it already dismissed on the notification side: it slid in with nothing behind it, so a tap on it, its X or the
notification_dismissaction had nothing to take down and only restarting the app cleared it. A card that is already gone when it is first drawn is now taken down there and then, and a tap on a card the notification side has already forgotten removes it directly.