Ladies & Gentlemen!
The next big AVA OS release is here. It’s packed with features including the fastest and richest Apple TV IP driver ever.
As always, the features in “Blaze” were driven by your requests. We focus on what’s impactful for your business. And, AVA’s developers have already started working on the next set of drivers and features. Use the Idea Voting page to help us prioritize what comes next.
Here is the 1.56.0 “Blaze” release for you! 🚀
Highlights
The biggest features in AVA OS Blaze are:
- Apple TV IP driver - Speed like no other, launch TV apps directly from a Flow, all you features you can imagine. (🎬 How-to video.)
- Lutron IP driver - (public beta), this supports Lutron Homeworks and RadioRA3, both for all kinds of lights, shades and scenes. Happy testing. Keep in mind - it’s a public beta for dealers only. Do not use in client systems until the official release..
- New auto-generated UIs for lighting and shades, new slider types (as previewed at CEDIA Expo)
- ToughLink - All IP drivers in AVA OS now use ToughLink. ToughLink is our new IP connection handling that makes IP drivers super solid, and capable of functioning well in challenging networks. For example, at some point we had to deal with a failing Unify access point in our office. It had a firmware issue causing massive mDNS outages. Even though the issue was “not AVA’s fault,” the same could happen in your projects. With traditional IP drivers, this could result in drivers failing to control devices intermittently, or altogether. This sucks for the owner, and it’s is difficult troubleshoot for you and AVA’s support team. ToughLink is designed to handle and correct such situations. Also, ToughLink handles IP address changes very gracefully. Its very very good.
Other features and important quality improvements (in random order):
- Added new Flow icons
- Improved image scaling
- Several new TV App widget icons for Custom UI buttons (such as DIRECTV)
- Ability to delete “Flows with State” and duplicated flows
- Added Play Store Button in the AVA OS Settings under “General”
- Improved IP driver for NAD
- Improved LG driver (better pairing, fixed power handling)
- Extended Kaleidescape IP driver with more commands
- Fixed issue for AVA OS boot animation sometimes showing up
- Added more TV Apps to Sony IP driver
- Added manual IP address capability to Integra/Onkyo AVR drivers
- Improved connection handling, speed and reliability of Android TV and NVIDIA Shield IP Driver
- User Error handling when wrong paring code is entered for Android TV and NVIDIA Shield IP Driver
- (Much) more solid handling of Brain lists (found and fixed some ugly bugs)
- Added an advisory when un-hiding Flows that are hidden by default
- Fixed rare-occasion “Project Offline” message showing up incorrectly
- Improved Widget & Shortcut spacing on slides
- Fixed RX2 Action button not opening the Josh.ai app correctly for some customers
- Removed duplicate MAX App commands from several IP drivers
- many more minor bug fixes
How to Get the New AVA OS Version
AVA OS updates are non-disruptive and happen automatically.
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AVA Nano Brain - You will see an Update Available badge on any remote connected to the Nano Brain.
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Cinema Remote & Home Remote - AVA remotes update automatically when on their charging base. You can also get the latest version of AVA OS from the Play Store as an update to the AVA app.
💡 Pro tip: You can get to the Play Store fast from the Action Button. Just tell Google Assistant “Open Google Play.”
What’s Next
Here is a quick preview of some stuff that is in the works:
- Barco IP driver for both 3-chip an and single chip models
- JVC projector driver for all models that require authentication (very often requested)
- Storm Audio sound processor IP driver
- More based on Idea Voting suggestions
Of course there will be much more. We will make sure to keep up the fast pace 🚀
