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 "repo_url": "https://github.com/mihirgupta0900/tv-home",
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 "title": "Debloat a slow Android TV over Wi-Fi",
 "page_title": "How to debloat a slow Android TV over Wi-Fi with TV Home",
 "summary": "Disable the manufacturer's ads, telemetry and bloat apps on your TV from your laptop, with a restore script.",
 "who": "A TV owner whose Android or Google TV has slowed down and shows ads, and who wants to clean it without a factory reset.",
 "problem": "Preinstalled manufacturer apps eat memory, slow the home screen and push ads, and the TV has no simple built-in way to remove them.",
 "outcome": "Bloat apps are disabled rather than uninstalled, the home screen uses less memory, and every change can be undone with the restore script.",
 "steps": [
  "Turn on USB debugging on the TV: go to Settings, System, About, press OK on Build 7 times, go back, open Developer options and turn on USB debugging.",
  "Run `./setup.sh` in the cloned repo to install the Python ADB client, JDK 17 and the Android SDK.",
  "Run `tools/find-tv.sh` to find the TV on your Wi-Fi and save its IP address.",
  "Run `tools/venv/bin/python -I tools/tv.py --probe` to confirm the TV model and Android version.",
  "Run `tools/disable.sh examples/tcl-google-tv-g07/debloat.txt`, or write your own list based on the files in examples/, to disable the apps."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the tv-home repo, run ./setup.sh, then tools/find-tv.sh to find the Android TV at <tv-ip-or-hostname> on the local network, then tools/disable.sh with a debloat list for that model from examples/. Report how many packages were disabled and the TV model from tools/venv/bin/python -I tools/tv.py --probe. Verify the output lists the disabled packages and that nothing was uninstalled.",
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 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "1 hour",
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 "caveat": "The README's tested model is a TCL Google TV on Android 11, and it says Samsung, LG and Fire TV are not supported, so check your model in examples/ before running a list.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
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 ],
 "lang": "java",
 "requirements": [
  "An Android TV or Google TV on the same Wi-Fi network as your computer",
  "USB debugging turned on in the TV's Developer options",
  "A computer running macOS, since the README's manual steps are written for macOS",
  "Git to clone the repo, and the setup.sh script, which installs the Python ADB client, JDK 17 and the Android SDK"
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