New firmware 8.1.3

[jjo]

If only it was that simple... Dialog and Expert are entirely different architectures. There's a general purpose CPU presumably running Linux inside a Dialog but FPGA's inside the Experts. Worlds apart!

uPnP is an evolutionary step back compared to AIR. But of course at least one of these streaming solutions should be made stable. Doing nothing is (should be) no option for Devialet.

Luckily since the early seventies the problem of different architectures has been solved with a "higher" level programming languages that use compilers to generate architecture specific apps form source code, so that the same code has been usable on many different platforms. I'm sure Devialet does not use lower level languages than C except for drivers and such.

Also UPnP is mostly about XML-parsing, networking and playing files. I know Devialet does all of these things already as the configuration files used to be XML before they switched to JSON.

As for the evolutionary step, I have to disagree. I think that proprietary and platform specific solutions should mostly be a thing of the past and open standards should be embraced.

AIR will always break with the introduction of a new operating system and the operating system support is totally in the hands of Devialet. For example Linux support is totally missing. Supporting every platform separately and keeping up the development with each platform takes time and money. 

Making Devialet an UPnP rendered (actually the Linn OpenHome would be even better) would mean that it would work with all the platforms supporting UPnP. They would also work even if the operating system was upgraded since nothing requires operating system level support. How cool is that. If some platform didn't support UPnP, a third party developer could add the support quite easily. With AIR adding the support would require reverse engineering the AIR protocol every time it changes, and for such a small number of users there might not be many willing to do that. Not to mention it might be considered illegal in some countries.

UPnP would work even long after Devialet has ceased to exist, AIR would probably break and become unusable with the next operating system upgrade after Devialet was gone.