Android TV on Hopper 3 Without Plus Upgrade?

[KMeyer]

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?

 

[dishdude]

Must be leftover from the Hopper Plus install, there is no native support for Android without the add-on hardware.

 

[KMeyer]

Must be leftover from the Hopper Plus install, there is no native support for Android without the add-on hardware.

Thanks for confirming my thoughts. I must say I am quite pleased with gaining Android benefits of the Plus upgrade, like Home page with streaming apps, without sacrificing IR control.