Android TV on Hopper 3 Without Plus Upgrade?

KMeyer

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Original poster
Oct 13, 2023
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Marion, Iowa
A couple of years ago I upgraded to Hopper Plus and quickly discovered that it needed an RF remote for several functions. That was deal-breaker for our living room system since it has multiple devices controlled by a marriage-saving Harmony One IR-only remote, so I disconnected the Plus box, rebooted Hopper 3, and hoped for the best since I was led to believe original Hopper 3 software would need to be reinstalled. Well, everything worked as before.

A few months ago, I noticed it has an Android TV home page. It may have been there ever since removing the Plus upgrade, but I never looked until upgrading my 4K Joey to Joey 4 on my home theater system and became familiar with Android TV.

Question: does the Hopper 3 now have Android TV, or is mine a leftover remnant of the Hopper Plus s/w upgrade?
 

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