AVA OS 3.1 🏄🏽‍♀️ Clear Wave

Just eight weeks after AVA OS 3.0 and the all-new AVA OS 3 interface, AVA OS 3.1 is here!

Just eight weeks after AVA OS 3.0 and the all-new AVA OS 3 interface, AVA OS 3.1 is here!

Nano Brains can now update silently overnight. A new wave of IP drivers brings control of Home Assistant, Homey, more than 700 Epson projectors, AVRs from Anthem and Emotiva. Flows got noticeably faster to use. And on top of all that, AVA engineers went through the whole interface screen by screen and delivered more than 100 fixes and further refinements.

Let's dig in!

AVA OS updates itself – overnight

Nano Brains now install AVA OS updates automatically at night, and only when nobody is using the system. Remotes show a short updating screen and a one-time "updated" notice, so nobody is left wondering what changed. Prefer to stay in control? There is a setting for that, of course.

One last manual step before this goes into effect: you have to update each Nano Brain to AVA OS 3.1 one last time. Follow the familiar red Update Available badge on any remote that is connected to a Nano Brain. From then on, overnight updates take over.

The new Software Updates page puts every version in one place. A yellow badge in Settings → System shows how many updates are waiting. You will see Nano Brains, as well as the remote’s version of AVA OS and Dynamic Keypad.

AVA OS meets Home Assistant

AVA dealers asked for it, and voted for it on the dealer-only Idea Voting board. So, now AVA OS has its own driver to connect to Home Assistant. If a client's home already runs Home Assistant, add that setup to an AVA OS project and control it natively from AVA OS…no need to run a separate Android app and you get full use of the Dynamic Keypad. That makes Home Assistant feels like part of the remote, not just an app squeezed onto it. The Home Assistant IP Driver is available as a Public Beta, in every AVA OS language from day one. 🍾

Control Homey from AVA OS

The new Homey IP Driver, also a Public Beta, brings a client's Homey setup into AVA OS: lights, shades, TVs, receivers and speakers, plus their Homey flows and moods. Just like Home Assistant, it lives right inside AVA OS: no Homey app needed. Every key on the Dynamic Keypad does what you'd expect. Yet another huge integration that was shaped by dealer requests and Idea Voting suggestions.

More new IP drivers

Epson ESC/VP21 IP Driver (Beta) – one driver for more than 700 network-connected Epson projectors. Every model has its own entry in device search, and home cinema lines such as EH-TW, EH-LS, Home Cinema and Pro Cinema come with their own inputs, features and lens memories as buttons. (There you go, Steve D. and Chris E.! 😉)
Anthem x50 IP Driver – MRX and AVM x50, Zone 1 and Zone 2. Runs on the receiver's own status updates (no polling) and confirms every command. (Shout out to Blake and Carlos at Paradigm/Anthem for sending the gear! Love partnering with you!)
Emotiva AVR IP Driver – including the LX AVRs such as the LXP16. (Our thanks to Robert and Damon for sending a dev unit to AVA!)

Run Flows Quietly from Custom UI

When you trigger a stateless Flow from the Dynamic Keypad or a Custom UI button, the startup progress ring no longer displays. Instead, the remote or companion app briefly shows a discrete confirmation that keeps the user interface right where it was. So, now you can use Flows from the Custom UI non-disruptively.

A fresh look for the Home Screen

New wallpaper picker – swipe through full-screen previews that show the wallpaper with the real top bar and clock. Your own photo is the first card, and nothing changes until you tap "Set as wallpaper".

Adding rooms, made easy

Setting up Rooms is now much simpler. Add Room now suggests the Rooms you're most likely to need. As before, Rooms with no visible Flows do not show in UI.

Need a completely different Room, like Study, Lounge, or Conservatory? Here’s a Clue: Create Your Own Room lets you set the name and pick an icon.

You will also see that Settings → Rooms now displays each room as a wide tile, and shows how many Flows are visible or hidden. The Room currently active on the Home Screen is outlined on the list. You can drag and drop to re-order Rooms, too.

More for Pros

Smarter Control

Hidden Flows in Custom UI – You can put hidden device Flows (AVR, projector, soundbar, HDMI switch, audio) and hidden custom Flows on Custom UI pages without showing them on the Home Screen.
Dynamic Keypad always talks to the right device – unassigned keys go to the Flow's main device, volume and mute to the volume device.
Sonos Play Content – combine Shuffle, Repeat, and Crossfade in one step. With several Sonos speakers, the speaker of the Flow you open is always the one selected.
Fractional volume – sliders follow the driver's step size; Integra, Onkyo and Pioneer AVRs have an option for using 0.5 dB steps.

Faster setup

IR emitters grouped per Brain – one card per Brain with its Internal IR Blaster and Flat Emitters, so you can finally tell two Satellite Brains in the same room apart.
Flow editor – device picker grouped by room and searchable; Launch App steps show the app's logo.
Smarter "No devices found" – only suggests a fixed IP when the driver supports it. Philips Hue bridges can now be added by IP address.
Satellite Brains that change IP are found again automatically, with their devices moved over.

Backup & Restore, Polished

Clearer screens with progress for download and upload, a clear explanation for invalid files, and a grouped Fix Devices list.

More tools for pros

Brain details - in Settings → System and Change Project, each listed Brain shows its name, status, IP, project, serial and versions at a glance.
Persistent Logs – remotes and Nano Brains keep log history across restarts, so "it happened yesterday" support cases have a better chance for investigation. We also addressed an issue where Send Logs sometimes submitted only partial logs.
Installer lock – dealer PIN must now be confirmed.
Works With AVA – every IP driver now has instructions and a changelog, and bridges list the device types they support.

AVA Companion App

iPhone Duo – the app now lays out around the vertical status bar, with rooms and volume right in the bar.
Ready for iOS 27 - AVA is braced for impact!

IP Driver Updates

LG TV IP Drivers – YouTube TV app launch fixed.
Barco Single-chip Residential projectors – Power on now wakes Heimdall projectors from standby mode (in addition to powered off).
Crestron Home – no repeated pairing code prompt; Apple TV gets a BACK button for a full control pad on the Dynamic Keypad.
Trinnov Altitude – volume stays within -100 to 0 dB.
StormAudio AVR – up to 40 preset commands.
Lutron – LEAP drivers now are named for the processor they support (RA2 Select / Caséta, HomeWorks QSX).
KNX – large ETS projects now import reliably.
R_Volution – easier to find in device search. (That underscore! 🙄)

Fixes

Fixed: The Action Button on Cinema Remote is restored for Gemini/Google Assistant. (Our pals at Google changed the API!)
Fixed: After removing and re-adding a Device, its status (power, volume, sensors) did not update until the driver restarted.
Fixed: IR from Flows and favorites (including Power Off) did not always go out of the Active Remote in Nano Brain projects.
Fixed: Duplicating a Flow with Play Content or Webhook steps failed.
Fixed: A new IP entered for a paired Philips Hue bridge would not save.
Fixed: Backups saved as .ava-backup.json could not be restored.
Fixed: First-time setup sometimes would get stuck on “Updating AVA OS”.
Fixed: Rooms created while setting up a new Nano Brain could end up on a different Brain.
Fixed: Setting up a new Nano Brain without an AVA Pro login failed at the very end; it now asks for the login first.

How to Get to AVA OS 3.1

AVA OS updates are non-disruptive.

Nano Brain — You will see an Update Available red badge on any remote connected to the Nano Brain. Install 3.1 from there (manually, this one last time). Once on AVA OS 3.1, a Nano Brain can apply future updates on its own. Overnight and non-disruptively.
Cinema Remote & Home Remote — AVA remotes update automatically when on their charging dock, or from the Play Store as an update to the AVA app. 💡 Pro tip You can get to the Play Store fast from Settings → General.
AVA Companion app — Windows, Mac OS, iPad, iPhone and Android at ava.com/download. Companion app 3.1 rolls out in the next few days.

A lot of 3.1.0 came straight from your feedback and from the Idea Voting board. Keep it coming!

Thanks for being part of AVA,

Raph