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What's New in Illumibot⚓︎

The latest features and improvements to the Illumibot app. The app shows the same notes in Profile → What's New after each update.

Version 2.3 (Latest · October 2026)⚓︎

  • Tutorials: A new swipeable tutorials player, with a searchable index of every section. Hold a video to play it at 2× speed, share a link to the one you're watching, and pick up where you left off. Home now has a tutorials row that leads with the videos you haven't watched yet, each with its length.
  • Alignment: Tap to meter and drag to set the camera exposure during Automatic and Guided alignment, so the capture works in more lighting. Guided alignment is now available on every Illumibot.
  • Prompt Chat: Browse a chat's gallery one location at a time and swipe between locations. If a prompt fails, edit it and resend it on another model, or reopen a failed animation with its motion and model already filled in.
  • Gallery: The filter strip now leads with locations, then media type, then favorites, and opens on your active locations. Select several creations and add them all to a show, or share them to the community, in one go.
  • Add to Show: See each show's timeline thumbnails, create a new show from the sheet, and add any timelines the show is missing.
  • Play: Switch between list and grid views, filter by several locations, and sort shows by newest, oldest or name. Timeline cards show their download progress, and unfinished Automatic shows are listed so you can resume them.
  • Community: Search community posts from Get inspired, and find your own in the new My prompts tab.
  • Illumibot settings: A warning when your projector supports a sharper resolution than the one in use. Network settings are now kept through a factory reset.
  • Scheduling: The app tells you when a show will play unsynced across Illumibots.

Version 2.2 (October 2026)⚓︎

  • Picture and sound: Adjust your projector's picture and sound from the Illumibot's settings, and save the adjustment on firmware that supports it.
  • Projector control: Control projectors over HTTP (any projector with a web API) and serial, alongside CEC, IRLink and PJ Link. The HDMI power check can be turned on or off for any protocol.
  • Firmware updates: Illumibots with an update ready are badged on the Point tab, listed under Needs attention on Home, and flagged when you open them.
  • Replace an Illumibot: The transfer now asks before it starts, shows its progress, and tells you what moved and what stayed.
  • Deleting: A guided flow for deleting locations and Illumibots. A deleted location is removed from any groups that used it.
  • Guided alignment: Available on newer Illumibots, and opens the mask editor when it finishes.
  • Automations: Run it now on every automation. Export your webhook triggers, with a description of what each action does, and see the trigger address from any phone on your account.
  • Prompt Chat: A live mode switch in the chat gallery and the prompt gallery, favorites shown on each tile (double-tap to toggle), and models grouped by tier.
  • Automatic Timeline: Models grouped by tier, and live mode on the scene wall.
  • Timeline editor: Volume and a live, seekable preview on the transport bar, with elapsed time and file size. Reversed clips and audio fades are now saved with the timeline.
  • Exports: The app estimates how long a phone export will take, asks before long ones, and recommends Cloud export when that's faster. Phone exports are limited to 1 hour of video and cloud exports to 5 hours. Timelines whose alignment changed since they were exported are flagged so you can repin them.
  • Cloud export pricing: Cloud export rates have been updated, and applying the surface mask is now part of the quoted cost. As always, you see the cost before you confirm.
  • Play: Filter the list by location, search shows by name, and press and hold a show to delete it. Long lists load faster.
  • Scheduling: Edit a schedule from the app even while the Illumibot holds it, and a re-exported timeline is handed straight to its schedule.
  • Uploads: An upload's name defaults to the file's own title, audio files use their embedded artwork as a thumbnail, and oversized videos or overly long transparent WebMs are caught before you upload them.
  • Point: Device cards show a pending state while an Illumibot is checking in.

Version 2.1 (September 2026)⚓︎

  • Announcements on Home: News and updates from the Illumibot team now appear right on your Home tab.
  • Safer firmware updates: Check For Updates now walks you through a quick pre-flight check before the update starts: is the Illumibot online, and is its connection good enough?
  • Replace an Illumibot: Move an old Illumibot's name and locations onto a new one, straight from its settings.
  • Pause scheduled shows: Pause and resume a show's schedule from its card, or from Scheduled shows on Home.
  • AI transitions everywhere at once: Generate an AI transition for every cut in a timeline in one go.
  • Add to Show: Pick which show a new creation should be added to.
  • Projector control: Start over with Delete all control methods, and choose DHCP or static addressing for PJ Link.
  • Prompt Chat: Undo and redo in the composer, and engine badges when you choose a model.
  • Smarter uploads: Images are resized automatically, and videos the timeline can't play are caught before you upload them.
  • Gallery: Compare a creation with its source photo, and the sessions list remembers your sort order.

Version 2.0 (September 2026)⚓︎

A rebuilt app, with a new look and a new way around.

  • Five tabs: Home, Point, Prompt, Play and the new Explore tab for the community. Your Profile is now the avatar in the top-right corner.
  • Guided first-run setup: A step-by-step checklist on Home takes you from unboxing to your first creation. Scan the Illumibot's QR code to connect it.
  • Prompt Chat: Describe what you want in plain words and get fresh takes on your wall with every message. You can also add reference images, choose models by tier, and dictate your prompts.
  • Firmware updates in the app: A new Firmware Update page shows each install step as it happens.
  • Shows & timelines: A new timelines viewer with synced previews, sharing and downloads. You can also choose which locations to export.
  • Library: Swipeable Uploads, AtmosFX and Timelines tabs, with rename, delete and upload details.
  • Filter and sort: Filter your prompt sessions by location, and sort sessions and search results.
  • Automations: Illumibots on newer firmware can run shows from DMX, Arduino, webhooks and projector events.
  • Slideshows are being retired: Convert them to timeline shows from the Play tab.

Versions 1.3 – 1.14 (November 2025 – June 2026)⚓︎

  • Automatic Timeline: Describe a show and let AI write the scenes, animate them and link them with transitions. You can save stories as templates and resume unfinished shows.
  • Automatic alignment: Your phone camera, on a stand, aligns the projection for you.
  • Alignment history: Every saved alignment is kept, so you can go back to an earlier one.
  • Guided alignment and illumiFun: Use your phone as the projector source over a USB-C to HDMI cable.
  • New mask editor: AI selects a surface with a tap, and the projector shows a live preview. You can also feather mask edges.
  • Cloud export: Build show videos on our servers instead of your phone.
  • Regional Prompting: Regenerate just part of an image.
  • Extend and Repin: Lengthen animations, and re-fit them after you change the alignment.
  • Token history: See where every token went.
  • Support chat with images: Send screenshots and videos in support tickets.

Version 1.2⚓︎

  • Expanded Animation Models: New AI animation options.
  • Timeline Editor: Build sequences on a visual timeline, and layer your own videos with AI content.
  • AtmosFX Integration: Access the AtmosFX library, and upload your own audio.
  • Animation Extension: Stretch animations for perfect timing.
  • QR Code Onboarding: Faster setup with QR scanning.