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I have been using Kodi on my Xbox One for as long as it's been available. I love it, and it works great.
I'm hearing rumors that there might not be a Matrix update for the Xbox One, and I'm not finding anything here in the forums to answer this definitively one way or the other.
Will Matrix be made available on the Xbox? I saw that the RC has recently been released, and I'd love to test an Xbox version of it.
Thanks much!
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Yes a UWP release is planned, however the exact state of Kodi UWP is unknown other than that it still builds. Pretty much no one uses it on the PC anymore and despite builds being available on our mirrors that could be download, side loading on the Xbox requires using Dev Mode which can be a pain in the arse from what I understand. The correct way would be to setup a Beta Test channel in the Windows Store, however no one of the Team knows how to do this and has been willing to put in the time on it.
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Sorry but that's no good. It would have to be a Test channel setup on our existing account that we use to push out Stable builds, as we'd want access to the dashboard to see this like crash reports, usage etc. It's just that no one has worked out how to push Beta's to those who sign up to a Test channel, while leaving everyone else receiving the stable build. If you know how to do this or can point to some step by step instructions somewhere then that would be helpful, but no promises as the people with Store access have very limited time.
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I double the request for a proper Insider channel for Matrix RCs on the Store. I have it installed on all home laptops and HTPCs (for DVB PVR), no xbox here, but it would be great to test it on laptops before it gets released to the HTPC. I can't go home installing Matrix on every PC, it's way easier for me to enroll my family store accounts as insiders.
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What we want to be able to do is have a beta channel at Windows Store that users can opt-in to using at the store and receive the v19 Release Candidate version. Microsoft announced in a 2016 slideshow that such a feature was "coming soon", however it does not seem to have happened.
It looks like all that is possible is "flight packaging" for a known group of users, which means that we at Kodi have to get users to subscribe and then manage a list of users at the store. That is a tedious approach for an app with millions of users (and possibly testers) to administer securely, and at the moment we do not have any team members with the time spare to do that.
But no one among the active team members that is deeply familiar with app publication on Windows Store, maybe we have missed something? While we can manage the basics of a full release to all users, doing "beta" is less clear. User requests really don't help at all, skilled volunteers might.
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Kodi v19 stable is now out, do we know when the Xbox version is going to be released?
I use it with my Xbox Series X - I have a couple of bugs, one that 4k movies do not play (this is a known issue) and secondly it will start to lag incredibly.
