What's new in Kiosk Satellite v0.26.0-beta
New: Camera integration
Kiosk Satellite now exposes the device's own camera to Home Assistant over MQTT.
- Camera settings section: a new page on the device and in the remote admin with the master switch, camera picker, snapshot resolution (480p, 720p or 1080p) and an optional continuous snapshot interval from 5 seconds to 5 minutes. Everything is off by default, so nothing changes unless you enable it.
- MQTT entities, auto-discovered with no YAML: a Camera entity fed by JPEG stills, a Take camera snapshot button and a Last camera snapshot timestamp sensor. Snapshots refresh on demand, on the interval, when the screensaver's motion detection spots someone approaching, and on every broker connect. The latest frame is retained on the broker, so the picture survives a Home Assistant restart.
- No standing cost: the camera is never held open. Each still opens the camera, takes one frame and releases it, and while motion detection is running a snapshot rides its existing camera session so the two features never fight over the sensor.
- Motion detection now uses the camera selected in the Camera section, and turning the camera off disables motion detection with an explanation in place.
- Remote admin preview: the Camera page shows the latest snapshot with how long ago it was taken, plus its own Take snapshot button.
- Devices without a usable camera (for example ROMs that ship no camera support) say so up front, render the camera settings disabled and publish no camera entities.