Kodi/XBMC Xenon 4.0

Xenon 4.0 was released a few days ago, and as always, I thoroughly test the new version for problems or issues.  Here is what I found.

I performed a test upgrade on the following four android boxes:

T95 Max (Android OS 12), X88 Pro 10 (Android OS 11), T95 (Android OS 10), and Transpeed 6K Ultra HD (Android OS 9). All four upgrades eventually installed fine, but there were a couple upgrades that had a minor hiccup.

Two of the upgrade processes appeared to hose the Xenon build, ending up after the ‘force close’ as the image on the left.  However, not to worry. The build is still there, and you only need to rerun the wizard manually and download the build again.  The second time, the upgrade process proceeded normally as expected. Just go to Add Ons, etc in order to rerun the wizard and continue normally.  It appears that this behaviour was tied to the Android OS on the box, as all four had Kodi 20.2 installed.  This issue was only encountered on the boxes with Android OS 11 or 12 installed, and not with 9 or 10.

All in all, this upgrade appears rather stable, and improves a bit on the live TV experience. I notice that The TV App addon has returned, but the Live TV Widgets and IVue TV Guide seem to be still based on Daddy Live USA.  Speaking of the IVue TV Guide, how many days of the guide get downloaded is now 7, so if you had it set to anything else, you will need to go in and change that, unless 7 works for you.  This update, as expected, has a Christmas theme, as is the usual case for his December updates. Once you get any add ons that you use that aren’t installed, this update should work just fine for you.  Merry Christmas.