[izprtxqkft]

I tried using Xplore File Manager. Do you have instructions on how to adb into Hisense? Thanks.

assuming it's like mine ...

Settings -> System -> About
scroll down to Android TV OS Build and click it multiple times until you're a developer, 10x or some such, there should be messages appearing on the screen as you get close then a final when you are
then go back to Settings -> System -> About and you will find Developer Options, in there enable USB Debugging

go to Settings -> Network -> select a connection to find the ip of your tv

then it's the normal operation using adb from your pc as anything else, adb connect IP:5555

[hdmkv]

That worked, thanks. I have Android TV OS 12, so after creating that Kodi folder in sdcard, when I now try to create a text file inside that folder using Xplore or copy anything into it, I get permission denied. Are you using adb to completely manage that folder as well?

[izprtxqkft]

Are you using adb to completely manage that folder as well?

yes that's how i do it
using adb push to send the xbmc_env.properties from my pc
and adb push to send a Kodi data folder that i previously backed up with adb pull

i think you're missing just 1 step

open Settings -> Apps
click Kodi from the list
go to Permissions at the bottom
click the first setting, files and media
change it to Allow management of all files (instead of media only)

then have your xbmc_env.properties in sdcard by doing "adb push xbmc_env.properties /sdcard/" from your PC
- contents of it should be "xbmc.data=/sdcard/Kodi/"

then create the folder for kodi to use, it won't do it for itself
- adb shell "mkdir /sdcard/Kodi"

then start kodi, once kodi starts you can verify it went to the new folder
- adb shell "ls -a /sdcard/Kodi"

it should have created a .kodi folder in /sdcard/Kodi/ if everything worked
- extra note, period preceding files+folders are hidden that's why -a was added to ls when verifying

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it will also show in the kodi log, not esp. helpful because you would have already verified if you pulled the log from /sdcard/Kodi though
but maybe if you use the log viewer addon it would be helpful
"info <general>: special://envhome/ is mapped to: /sdcard/Kodi/"

[hdmkv]

Thanks, but gave up after hours at this. What a PITA... not worth it... got a Fire TV Cube 3 and fed it to my Hisense TV. Shouldn't be this convoluted.

[izprtxqkft]

Thanks, but gave up after hours at this. What a PITA... not worth it... got a Fire TV Cube 3 and fed it to my Hisense TV. Shouldn't be this convoluted.

that's a better option anyway, unless your hisense is better than mine then there is no audio passthrough or whitelist in kodi

take care