V7.1 is releasing now.
The initial 7.0 release contained a whole new method for ATV control built from scratch. It’s a method called Companion, but does not (currently) support Siri voice, media feedback, or keyboard.
The new 7.1 release contains yet a third method! We had planned from mid-Summer to build this in two stages as we did.
While this method was much more difficult to build requiring far more effort, it was able to take advantage of our many years of ATV control refinements such as gesture support, long presses, Siri voice, and media feedback. For now, keyboard support goes through the system notifications you already get – so you type into control center built into iOS. Not sure yet if it is worth bringing that back into the app, we’ll see how people like it this way.
This was not how we expected to spend 4 months, but it was worthwhile and I’m now pretty happy with ATV control.