Onkyo Controller 4+

Update: App has been updated twice since my previous review below and no enhancements to airplay controls have been made.
Original post
This app has not been updated in six months. Listening to music via airplay on my TX-NR6100, Zone1 is vastly different than on Zone2. Z2 even with latest updated app still lacks speaker level/balance and tone (treble, voice & bass) controls when playing music. Even my iphone volume button works on Z1 but not on Z2. Z2 should be made to work just like Z1 so you can make adjustments to music based on environment. Both zones need to add speaker LR balance as well. ONKYO has great products but the quality of the Controller app diminishes the value of this receiver. These changes are needed to significantly increase the listening experience. I emailed the company several months ago and they indicated they would pass this along to their technical team. Nothing yet.

To start off, this app is great and works like a charm every time. I am a very big person in ui interphases and I’d like to say that the ui is phenomenal. Looks amazing and is intuitive for the most part. I’m glad to see that the developers of this app continue to update bugs and issues. And because y’all update the app, I’d like to point out a few suggestions. First, I’d like to see the same HDMI CEC digital remotes, present in zone one, to also be present in the zone two section, so I don’t always have to alternate between zones in the app. Secondly, I’d like to see the MODE button present in one of the blank spots of the remote, so I don’t need to have both my phone and physical remote in hand.
Also talking about zone two, whenever I select dts - play fi, zone two shuts off. And finally, this may be pushing it, but it would be so awesome if there was a feature called ZONE 2 LFE, which would enable only the LFE channel in zone one, but not the rest of the speakers, so when using zone two, the speakers get a little assistance from the subwoofer placed back in the main theater. If the developers of this app can pull that off, that would be great! Those are just some things I thought would make sense through the years that I’ve owned my Onkyo. Thank you for creating an amazing app and for maintaining it. Oh yea, by the way, that new app logo looks great!

Update: I recently posted about my issues connecting to the app when trying to use Airplay. Here’s what I learned. I have 3 Onkyo receivers in my home and all were giving me issues when it came to airplay. After speaking with support on many occasions about my issues they decided that I should send the RZ70 for repair. I decided to play around with the receiver before I sent it out. What I came to find out was that all my receivers were set to LOCK in settings. I would lock it so no one would mess with the settings. So I decided to set it to UNLOCK in the settings on all my receivers and guess what, all my issues went away, and now airplay works great on all 3. In conclusion, I think when you have the receiver set to LOCK it blocks the receiver from communicating with the app.

Why is it that I'm always having problems connecting to the app? I had problems with my RZ3100 and now with the RZ70. Both have issues connecting. So that means I can never connect to airplay when I need to. Please fix this issue. I hate having to reboot my equipment every time I want to use airplay or use the app.