One year after 13.2.0

[David A]

I would say the problem with configuration and configurator is the ability to make damage to the device with some settings. The way it works now prevents it. If they release the software for local/desktop usage - someone could alter the app to unlock changes to configuration thus making possible to set unsafe values.

@jjo 's suggestion was not for the configuration to be on a local desktop but rather for it to be part of the amp's internal software so that you could configure the amp by using the interface you can already access when you use a browser and input the amp's network address.

As for fears about hacking the configuration and damaging the amp, Devialet issue OS updates. Someone could open the code for a new OS firmware version in a coding app on their desktop, modify the factory default settings, and then copy the modified file to an SD card, install their hacked version of the OS on the amp with those modified default settings and damage the amp. What you fear is already a possibility but it seems no one has ever done it which surely is a reason not to worry overly about that possibility. In any event, doing something like that would certainly void Devialet's warranty, Devialet would bear no responsibility for any damage done as a result of such action, and would not have to repair the damaged amp. We've always been able to trash an amp by opening it up and modifying the circuitry, modifying the amp by altering its operating code is just a new way to make an amp operate in ways that it wasn't intended to operate. 

If Devialet adopted @jjo 's suggestion the configurator would become part of the amp's firmware and I'm not aware of any reports of anyone hacking the amp's firmware so I'd say it's a pretty safe option. I doubt that fears of someone hacking the firmware and damaging the amp aren't the reason that Devialet have not adopted this idea. I think it's far more likely that it has something to do with either limitations in the processing power of the chips in the amp and/or the storage capacity available for the additional code required to enable the amp to handle the configurator functions given that they obviously have to continue to reserve storage function for things like Bluetooth, a feature they promised but have yet to deliver, after they delivered other features such as RAAT and Sweet Room which they did not promise but added anyway, much to the benefit of some users.