What's new in Kiosk Satellite v0.17.0-beta
New Feature: "At a Glance" entities in screensavers
- An optional row of Home Assistant entity states on the Black and Clock screensavers, for the things you check in passing: is the garage still open, is the front door locked (#37). Settings -> Screensaver -> At a Glance: turn it on and pick up to four entities. The picker searches Home Assistant by name or entity id, so nothing has to be typed from memory, and the chosen entities can be reordered. The same picker is in the remote admin's Screensaver tab. On the Black screensaver the row is centered and is the whole display; on the Clock screensaver it sits along the bottom, with the middle entity aligned to the clock above it. Each entity shows its icon, name and state in one muted tone, with the unit appended for numeric sensors. Icons come from the entity's own icon in Home Assistant, falling back to the icon Home Assistant itself would draw for that kind of entity. On a narrow screen the entities stack into a column. See the documentation.
Bug Fixes
- The Screen entity in Home Assistant now follows the panel however it changes (#41). Turning the screen off or on outside Kiosk Satellite (the power button, the device's own idle timeout, another app, a lock screen) left the entity reporting whatever the app last did itself, so it sat stuck on
onafter the screen went dark, and stuck onoffafter someone woke the tablet by hand. The app now tracks the real display state, so the entity, the remote admin and any automation reading it stay in step with the device. A tablet whose screen is already off when the app starts also reports correctly instead of claiming to be on.