Questions, answered plainly.

No. Kiosky is a general kiosk app: it shows any web address or locks the tablet to one installed app. Home Assistant support is built in for people who use it, and MQTT and the REST API work with any other system.

Yes, for anything that runs in a browser: a menu, opening hours, room bookings, a Grafana board or a status page. With Pro, pages can rotate on a timer or change by time of day, and you can switch them remotely.

Kiosky doesn't play local video or image playlists itself; use a web page or a signage web app for that.

Yes. Choose “A single app” in setup and pick an installed app, such as a point-of-sale, learning or ticket-scanning app. Kiosky reopens it if it closes. With Device Owner the app is locked in place; with the home-app lock it is harder, but not impossible, to leave.

1. Install Kiosky from Google Play.
2. Choose what the tablet shows: a web address, Home Assistant, or one app.
3. Pick a lock: Device Owner or the home-app lock.
4. Plug it in and mount it.

Setting up a second tablet? Export the config from the first one and import the file, or scan its QR code with Pro.

Android 8.0 and newer, on tablets and phones, including Amazon Fire tablets and LineageOS. Kiosky does not need Google Play services; features that use them, like face presence, switch off when they are missing.

Some brands (Honor, Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung) close background apps aggressively. Kiosky links you to the right battery settings for your device during setup.

Home-app lock needs no computer. Kiosky becomes the home app and comes back whenever someone leaves it. A determined person can still reach the notification shade or recent apps. That is fine for a home or a staffed desk.

Device Owner uses Android's lock task mode. The status bar, power menu and other apps are blocked. It needs a computer with adb and a tablet with no accounts on it (usually right after a factory reset). Kiosky shows the command and checks it worked:

adb shell dpm set-device-owner com.enraio.kiosky/com.enraio.kiosky.feature.kiosk.KioskAdminReceiver

A tablet set up as Device Owner usually has no Google account, so it won't get Play Store updates on its own. Pro still activates without one.

Tap five times in the top-left corner, then enter your admin PIN. You can also pause the lock for a set time, on the tablet or remotely over MQTT or the REST API; it re-locks by itself when the time runs out.

With the REST API on, you can change settings from the web admin page using your token. Otherwise, with the home-app lock, uninstall the app from Android settings. A Device Owner tablet needs a factory reset; that is the point of Device Owner.

No page content, sensor readings, camera frames or audio leave your network. The app has no analytics, no ads and no crash reporting service.

The app talks only to what you configure (your pages, MQTT broker, Home Assistant) and, with Pro, to our licensing server once a day. That check sends your device's public key and licence token, nothing about your home. See the privacy policy.

Both are off until you turn on a feature that needs them. When they are on, a visible indicator shows it. Motion, presence and the wake word are processed on the tablet. Audio goes to your Home Assistant only after the wake word, and video leaves the tablet only if you enable the MJPEG stream on your LAN.

• Home Assistant with an Assist pipeline set up (speech to text, a conversation agent, text to speech). Local options like Whisper and Piper work, and so does Home Assistant Cloud.
• A long-lived access token in Kiosky so it can reach the pipeline.
• Kiosky Pro for the wake word. On-device commands like “screen off” are free.

The wake word (“Okay Nabu”, “Hey Jarvis” or “Hey Mycroft”) runs on the tablet. Tablet microphones are not far-field, so expect the best results within a few metres.

Pro belongs to your Kiosky account, which signs in with an emailed link. Buy on Google Play or on the web, then open Pro on the tablet: it shows a QR code. Scan it with your phone and approve. The tablet doesn't need a Google account.

One Pro purchase covers 3 tablets. Remove a tablet from your account to move its slot to another.

The licence is checked on the tablet and refreshed daily; it keeps working for 30 days without internet. If Pro ends, Pro features switch off, your settings are kept, and the kiosk keeps running.

Yes, within 14 days of buying or renewing.

• Google Play: request it through Google Play within 48 hours, or email us after that with your order number.
• Web: email us, or reply to your Paddle receipt.

Cancelling the yearly plan stops the next renewal; Pro stays on until the end of the paid year.

The yearly plan starts with a free month, and at launch the first two months are free. Cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing.