What's new in Kiosk Satellite 2026.8.93
Notifications can carry a picture, toggling the device camera from Home Assistant no longer knocks the ESPHome device offline, and the app wears its new mark.
New Feature: Image in Notifications (BREAKING CHANGE)
- Notifications pushed from Home Assistant can carry a picture (#341). The
notificationESPHome action and theshowNotificationremote command gainimage: an http(s) URL, or a path on the Home Assistant server such as/api/camera_proxy/camera.doorbellfor a fresh frame from that camera or/local/doorbell.jpgfor a filecamera.snapshotwrote, fetched with the kiosk's own Home Assistant token. The card shows its words at once and the picture joins under them when it arrives, sized to the card and decoded no larger than it is drawn, so a doorbell press can show who is there. - Since every ESPHome action argument is required, existing calls to the notification action need
image: ""added, as they did forchime_fileandvolume.
Fixed
- Turning the device camera on or off from Home Assistant no longer makes every ESPHome entity drop to unavailable for a moment. The Camera, Take camera snapshot, Last camera snapshot and Motion entities used to exist only while the camera was enabled, so an automation that disarms the camera when the screen goes off restarted the ESPHome server on every flip and took the whole device with it. They now follow the hardware instead: with the camera off the Camera entity shows a "Camera off" frame instead of a broken image, Motion reads unknown, and the Motion sensor setting behaves the same way (#339).