macOS 10.12.4 breaks launching of Kodi with Apple Remote on Mac Mini 2014 model

Been running Kodi 17.1 fine. But installed macOS 10.12.4 yesterday and today I am noticing I can’t launch kodi anymore with the apple remote on my mac mini! I thought it worked after the update, but not sure about that now. Only thing that changed was 10.12.4.

Turned on debug and log is here:
https://pastebin.com/wb6UDQph

xmbc helper is running and tried rebooting and turning off allowing kodi to be restarted with remote and turning back on and nothing has helped. Once I am in Kodi, the remote works fine, just won’t launch it all of a sudden. Never had this issue before using Kodi all these years.

Just tried nightly build from Apr 6, no luck. Tried versions 16.1 and 17.0 and no luck either.