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This is also a good time to mention this is also how you can side-load apps on your TV without signing into a google account and using the play store.

If you're into foss, like me, I would recommend F-Droid.

If you see other people with the same question to get ProMode working on their TV, you should share this with them and help them out.

I don't know how long this will work for, but for now it does and works quite well. When you're in "Pro Mode", you might notice that the settings app no longer opens. That's to be expected and will not until you go back into the "Pro settings mode" or the "Normal mode".

You also might notice from time to time that there's two ProModeTool apps when switching from "Pro Mode" to "Pro mode settings" and that's also to be expected when we're side-loading it over. Both apps do work though

Now I did say you could use MacOS with this guide at the start and you can but you will have to install for example, python for MacOS, install ADB tools for MacOS instead of the windows versions and use 7zip for MacOS which is a console version instead of a gui version link here: https://7-zip.org/a/7z2408-mac.tar.xz

Or you can try and use this: https://www.keka.io/en/ Which is what the 7zip team recommended using for MacOS.

BRAVIA 8 series zip location:

I hope you enjoyed the guide.