Release Notes: Dynamic Keypad 1.3.2

Double the Battery, No False Clicks, Stability Improvement

I’m pretty sure you will love this massive update to Dynamic Keypad!

After numerous hours of testing, improving step by step, and analyzing possibilities within code deep in the core application of Dynamic Keypad, I’m very pleased with what our engineering teams have achieved.

Double the Battery?

The new Dynamic Keypad software gets you an amazing 2x to the battery life from Cinema Remotes in standby! Seriously. Excellence in engineering is often not about adding glossy new features, but rather about optimizing what already exists.

The team of testers reported back things like:

”The Dynamic Keypad update is freaking insane. I have the remote off the dock for 3 days now and I’m still on 42%!”

”OMG - this is exactly what I was hoping to get. The battery life is amazing. Thanks Patrick, Fabrice, Gyuri, Rudi, Istvan, Miro and whoever else made this happen! Amazing!!”

I’m one of the testers myself and I can confirm I feel the same. Big shout-out to the engineering team that “suffered” through these layer by layer improvements over several months and also big thank you to the BETA team that helped with this. ❤️

No More False Clicks!

Prior to this update, AVA had received reports from some of our users that they were experiencing clicks on the “menu” button when they intended to use “cursor down” buttons. Since UX is among AVA’s most important core competencies and passions, we dove in deep to understand this issue. We ran tests with various users—some who never saw the issue, and others that reported that it happened fairly often. What we learned was fascinating regarding human ergonomics: those who experienced the issue typically held the remote very differently, using more of a sideways grip. I’m sharing this here as we are all about transparency and sharing interesting tech background.

So, we started to explore solutions that would fit both types of users. The improvement that did the trick, was increasing the hit target area (touch area) for the area around the three-dimensional glass “donut”. From there we pretty quickly found the right offset and modifications we needed to implement so “false clicks” were no longer an issue. In fact, both types of users reported back that it is working perfectly for them. So if you were among the ones seeing this issue, this update is for you!

Another quality of life update. Nothing shiny new, just a more solid version of what you already had.

Stability Improvement

We have received reports that the dynamic keypad sometimes did not behave properly and showed an “upside down” screen, especially when using the Cinema Remote with Josh.ai. While we have seen this issue very rarely in the AVA OS world, we were very motivated to resolve it. Some of Josh’s amazing engineers teamed up with counterparts at AVA in a very productive collaboration. Thanks to these efforts, we got to several stability improvements and also found the actual root cause (which was on the Dynamic Keypad side). All this is included in this current update. Weeks of engineering for better quality.

If you were a Josh user affected by this issue, thank you for bearing with us as we worked to find the cause and deliver this solution. We are super happy to deliver it at last! ❤️

We listen to our community. The best place to report issues is via support@ava.com – you will get a response from a real human that actually cares!

Also, if you have ideas of what could make you more successful with Cinema Remote or AVA OS – please participate in the Idea Voting in the AVA Pro Portal.

Thanks for being part of AVA and enjoy looooooooooooooong battery life,

— Raph

CEO

AVA, Inc.

Dynamic Keypad Auto-Updates & Reboots the Remote

Dynamic Keypad updates happen automatically and cause a reboot of the remote when applied.

• Cinema Remote updates automatically when on their charging base.
• You can also get the latest version of the Dynamic Keypad release from the Play Store as an update to the AVA Dynamic Keypad app.