diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Common/ConnectionBanner.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Common/ConnectionBanner.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c26577..0000000
--- a/frontend/src/components/Common/ConnectionBanner.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-import { WifiOff } from "lucide-react"
-import { AnimatePresence, motion } from "motion/react"
-import { useSyncExternalStore } from "react"
-
-import { ago } from "@/components/Health/queries"
-import { connectionStore } from "@/lib/connectionStore"
-import { fadeIn } from "@/lib/motion"
-import { isPortal } from "@/lib/portal"
-
-/**
- * Says when the installation cannot be reached, and when it was last heard
- * from.
- *
- * Only ever shown under a portal: a local install cannot lose contact with
- * itself. The screen underneath keeps its last data rather than blanking —
- * stale readings with a timestamp are more use than an empty page, which is
- * why the banner leads with when we last heard anything.
- *
- * Centred over the content column rather than the window: it belongs to what
- * is being read, not to the shell around it. That is what `sticky` inside the
- * content column buys — no sidebar width to track and nothing to recompute
- * when the sidebar collapses — and `h-0` keeps it out of the flow, so nothing
- * below it moves when the banner appears.
- */
-export function ConnectionBanner() {
-  const connection = useSyncExternalStore(
-    connectionStore.subscribe,
-    connectionStore.snapshot,
-    connectionStore.snapshot,
-  )
-  if (!isPortal()) return null
-
-  return (
-    <div className="pointer-events-none sticky top-4 z-50 flex h-0 justify-center px-4">
-      <AnimatePresence>
-        {connection.offline && (
-          <motion.div
-            variants={fadeIn}
-            initial="hidden"
-            animate="visible"
-            exit="hidden"
-            role="status"
-            aria-live="polite"
-            className="flex items-center gap-2 rounded-full border border-border bg-card/80 px-4 py-2 text-sm shadow-e2 backdrop-blur-md"
-          >
-            <WifiOff className="size-4 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground" />
-            <span className="font-medium">Installation offline</span>
-            <span className="text-muted-foreground">
-              {connection.lastSeen
-                ? `last seen ${ago(connection.lastSeen / 1000)} — reconnecting…`
-                : "reconnecting…"}
-            </span>
-          </motion.div>
-        )}
-      </AnimatePresence>
-    </div>
-  )
-}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Common/ConnectionNotice.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Common/ConnectionNotice.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d29b41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Common/ConnectionNotice.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import { useEffect, useSyncExternalStore } from "react"
+
+import { ago } from "@/components/Health/queries"
+import { connectionStore } from "@/lib/connectionStore"
+import { dismiss, notify } from "@/lib/notificationStore"
+import { isPortal } from "@/lib/portal"
+
+/** One card, replaced in place, rather than one per poll that confirms it. */
+const ID = "connection-offline"
+
+/**
+ * Says when the installation cannot be reached, and when it was last heard
+ * from.
+ *
+ * Only ever meaningful under a portal: a local install cannot lose contact with
+ * itself. The screen underneath keeps its last data rather than blanking —
+ * stale readings with a timestamp are more use than an empty page, which is why
+ * this leads with when we last heard anything.
+ *
+ * Draws nothing of its own: it raises a persistent notification and takes it
+ * back when the tunnel returns, so being offline is said in the same place as
+ * everything else the app has to say. Still a component rather than a
+ * subscription inside the store, because it is what scopes the notice to the
+ * shell — a wall panel or a kiosk has nobody to read it.
+ */
+export function ConnectionNotice() {
+  const connection = useSyncExternalStore(
+    connectionStore.subscribe,
+    connectionStore.snapshot,
+    connectionStore.snapshot,
+  )
+  const portal = isPortal()
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!portal) return
+    if (!connection.offline) {
+      dismiss(ID)
+      return
+    }
+    notify(
+      connection.lastSeen
+        ? `Installation offline — last seen ${ago(connection.lastSeen / 1000)}, reconnecting…`
+        : "Installation offline — reconnecting…",
+      "warning",
+      { id: ID, persistent: true },
+    )
+  }, [portal, connection])
+
+  return null
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Health/LiveIndicator.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Health/LiveIndicator.tsx
index cfbb491..55d182d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Health/LiveIndicator.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Health/LiveIndicator.tsx
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ const GRACE = 3000
  * stop pulsing and the values stop changing, with nothing to say why. Nothing
  * at all while the socket is up: a page that works needs no chip saying so.
  *
- * Quiet too while `ConnectionBanner` is up, since an installation that cannot
+ * Quiet too while the offline notification is up, since an installation that cannot
  * be reached has no socket either and one explanation of that is enough. Named
  * in words rather than coloured, and deliberately not terracotta: the brain
  * graph above it already owns that accent for a flow that cannot run.
diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/_layout.tsx b/frontend/src/routes/_layout.tsx
index fba8a81..63bd00f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/_layout.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/_layout.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { createFileRoute, Outlet, redirect } from "@tanstack/react-router"
 
-import { ConnectionBanner } from "@/components/Common/ConnectionBanner"
+import { ConnectionNotice } from "@/components/Common/ConnectionNotice"
 import { Footer } from "@/components/Common/Footer"
 import { useFlowSocket } from "@/components/Flow/useFlowSocket"
 import AppSidebar from "@/components/Sidebar/AppSidebar"
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ function Layout() {
     <SidebarProvider className="bg-card">
       <AppSidebar />
       <SidebarInset className="bg-card">
-        {/* Renders nothing unless this page is served through a portal.
-            Inside the inset so it centres over the content, not the window. */}
-        <ConnectionBanner />
+        {/* Draws nothing itself, and nothing at all unless this page is
+            served through a portal: it raises the offline notification. */}
+        <ConnectionNotice />
         {/* The sidebar carries its own collapse control; a phone has no
             sidebar on screen to carry it. */}
         <header className="sticky top-0 z-10 flex h-16 shrink-0 items-center gap-2 px-4 md:hidden">