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The ONYX Journal

Performance breakdowns, design guides, and notes from the team building fast, tactile software for AV receivers.

Design & Architecture Notes

TACTILE UX NATIVE APIS

Controlling Volume by Feel: Physical Button Control Without Glare

When watching a movie in a dark room, having a bright white system volume slider pop up ruins your night vision. Here’s how ONYX lets you adjust receiver volume using your phone's physical rocker buttons by feel, while completely suppressing disruptive system volume popups.

PRIVACY LOCAL-FIRST

The 100% Local Principle: Why Your Remote Needs No Cloud

Why does an AV receiver in your living room need a cloud account, email sign-in, or tracking telemetry? We walk through our zero-cloud architecture: no remote servers, no analytics beacons, and no dropped connections when the internet goes out.

HOME THEATER SPEAKER SAFETY

Protecting Your Speakers: Why We Built a Parental PIN & Volume Ceiling

A single accidental volume spike to 0 dB can blow high-end ribbon tweeters or terrorize a household. We explain how ONYX enforces hardware-level decibel caps and isolates multi-zone control behind a secure PIN.