Keyboard shortcuts not working initially

When Kodi 17.0 starts up on my Mac mini running Sierra 10.12.3, keyboard shortcuts (such as up/down/left/right arrow) don’t work until I move the mouse over an interface element and it gets focus. I have a remote that is generating keyboard commands, and that means I can’t operate Kodi on launch. Looks possibly like without an initial focused element, the arrow keys don’t do anything. Anybody else seeing this?