Vero 4k - First Impressions

[sam_nazarko]

Thanks for your review, it’s very thorough. I thought I would cover some of your comments.

@tzarosmc

The Vero has a premium price (£119) compared to similar devices so I thought the finishing on the plastic casing could have been slightly better - there was a small piece of plastic left over from the manufacturing process in one of the 3.5mm jack holes however this was easily removed using a cocktail stick. The label stuck on the back wasn’t quite square either.

If there any issues with the quality please show a photo and we’ll take care of it of course.

@tzarosmc

The “find Kodi” option in the app didn’t find the Vero 4k (it can find osmc on my old raspberry pi)

Is this old Raspberry Pi running Kodi Jarvis? I think I read that Avahi broadcasting has been removed from Kodi Krypton, which would explain why the Kodi remote for iPhone can’t automagically find Vero 4K.

@tzarosmc

Bluetooth: I played with the Bluetooth settings because eventually I’d like to connect the Vero to Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones which I intend to buy. Before purchasing these expensive headphones I wanted to ensure I could connect to a Bluetooth device and output the audio.

Bluetooth audio streaming is still experiemental, and must be manually installed for it to work. It is maturing however and we hope to have it running on Vero 4K in a few weeks.

@tzarosmc

I clicked the box to enable wireless but this caused the vero to hang completely. I left it for 5 minutes but it remained unresponsive. Needed to unplug the power cable and reinsert to reactive the device.

This has already been fixed, but your device likely didn’t have the latest software when you received it.

@tzarosmc

Same thing - the Kodi skin reverted back to the default. Third time lucky though– customised the home screen one more time and I switched off the device using the menu instead of rebooting it. Turned the device on by physically removing / replacing the power cord (there is no manual on/off button) and was pleased to see that my homescreen skin settings had indeed been saved this time.

This is a Kodi bug that will be fixed in the OSMC March update. Your settings may very well disappear again, but after we release this update changes you make will be persistent.