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 "generated": "2026-10-20",
 "id": "mihirgupta0900-tv-home--type-wifi-passwords-on-tv-from-laptop",
 "repo": "mihirgupta0900/tv-home",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/mihirgupta0900/tv-home",
 "repo_slug": "mihirgupta0900-tv-home",
 "title": "Type text into the TV from your laptop",
 "page_title": "How to type text into the TV from your laptop with TV Home",
 "summary": "Use your laptop keyboard to fill in on-screen keyboard fields on the TV, including hidden passwords.",
 "who": "A TV owner setting up sign-ins or Wi-Fi on a TV where typing with the remote is slow and painful.",
 "problem": "Entering long passwords and account details with a TV remote is slow and error-prone.",
 "outcome": "The text is typed into the TV's on-screen keyboard from the laptop, and passwords are entered without being echoed on screen.",
 "steps": [
  "Make sure the TV is on the same Wi-Fi as your computer and USB debugging is on.",
  "Put the cursor in the text field on the TV that you want to fill.",
  "Run `tools/type.sh` on its own, and it will prompt for the text in hidden mode, so the password is not shown in the terminal.",
  "Check the field on the TV to confirm the text was entered correctly before you submit it."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the tv-home repo, run tools/type.sh with the TV at <tv-ip> focused on a text field, using the text supplied by the user at run time. Report whether the text was entered. Verify by taking a screenshot with tools/tv.py and confirming the field shows the expected length without displaying a password in logs.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The README documents tools/type.sh only in its alone, prompt-hidden form, so any use with an inline text argument is not covered by the README.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "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"
 ],
 "risk": "dual-use",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [
  {
   "tag": "credentials",
   "notice": "The script types whatever you give it into the TV, so passwords typed this way should be handled carefully and not pasted into shared logs or agent chats."
  }
 ],
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 "score": 0.8,
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