What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.91
You can now add Home Assistant entities as corner widgets, the screensaver can be dismissed with your device's proximity sensor and some UI refinements.
New: Entity widget
- A fourth screensaver widget type beside the small clock, the weather and the battery: one Home Assistant entity in a corner, the At a Glance row's reading in the widget family's look. The entity's icon and its value share one line with the name under them, in the widget's color over the corner vignette, so a room's temperature sensor can sit in a corner of the Immich photos where the At a Glance row cannot go.
- Pick the entity by searching for it by name or id, the way the row's are picked, override the name if you like, choose whether the value is the state or one of the entity's attributes (offered with their current readings) and hide the name line with the Show name toggle. The value reads exactly as the row reads it, with the entity's own icon, display precision and unit, and follows a live Home Assistant subscription while the screensaver shows.
New: Proximity Detection
- Dismiss on proximity wakes the screen when something comes close to the sensor while the screensaver is up, and Postpone screensaver on proximity keeps the screensaver from starting while something stays close. No camera, no permission, no CPU cost, and it works in the dark.
- The switch is disabled with the reason on devices without a proximity sensor (most kiosk tablets).
- A row under the switch shows the sensor's name, because a phone's call-only "palm proximity" sensor never notices anyone approaching and the name is the only way to tell it from a real hover sensor. Home Assistant gets a Screensaver proximity detection switch over MQTT and ESPHome on devices with the sensor, and pages get
getProximityEnabled()and thekiosksatellite:proximityevent. - Important: most Android devices do not include an usable proximity sensor. Most phones have a "palm" or "touch" sensor exposed as a proximity sensor but those only detect proximity when placed against to the ear.
Changed
- Editing an At a Glance entity picks its displayed value the way the entity widget does: a Displayed value dropdown of the state and the entity's attributes with their current readings in the remote admin, and a Displayed value row with a Choose button on the device, in place of the radio list that filled the dialog.
- The remote admin's row descriptions sit a little further under their titles, which read too tight against them.
- The remote admin's settings pages read at their previous 880 width again, and a radio or checkbox leading a row (the dashboard and view pickers, the app picker) sits 20 from its text instead of 12.