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tv-home is a set of scripts and a small Android home screen launcher that debloat a slow Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and replace its home screen.

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4 use cases

  • Debloat a slow Android TV over Wi-Fi

    Disable the manufacturer's ads, telemetry and bloat apps on your TV from your laptop, with a restore script.

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    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.

  • Install a fast Apple TV-style home screen

    Build and install the TV Home launcher with a dock of your favourite apps and rotating nature wallpapers.

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    In the tv-home repo, edit launcher/res/values/config.xml to set the dock to <app1>, <app2> and <app3>, then run launcher/build-and-install.sh against the TV at <tv-ip>. Report the build result and whether the install succeeded. Verify that pressing Home on the TV opens the new launcher and shows those three apps in the dock.

  • Type text into the TV from your laptop

    Use your laptop keyboard to fill in on-screen keyboard fields on the TV, including hidden passwords.

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    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.

  • Set up and debloat a TV with one Claude Code prompt

    Let Claude Code find your TV, debloat it, build the home screen and write a restore script from one prompt.

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    Inside the cloned tv-home repo, follow PROMPT.md to find the Android TV at <tv-ip> over ADB, disable bloat reversibly without uninstalling, and install the launcher. Report the list of disabled packages, the launcher install result and the path to the restore script. Verify with a screenshot from the TV that the new home screen is showing.

How to use TV Home

  1. Check you have what it needs: 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.
  2. Open mihirgupta0900/tv-home on GitHub and read the README and license.
  3. 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.
  4. Run ./setup.sh in the cloned repo to install the Python ADB client, JDK 17 and the Android SDK.
  5. Run tools/find-tv.sh to find the TV on your Wi-Fi and save its IP address.
  6. Run tools/venv/bin/python -I tools/tv.py --probe to confirm the TV model and Android version.

These steps come from our top use case, Debloat a slow Android TV over Wi-Fi, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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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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Questions about TV Home

What is TV Home?

tv-home is a set of scripts and a small Android home screen launcher that debloat a slow Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and replace its home screen. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/mihirgupta0900/tv-home.

Who is TV Home for?

Written for people with an Android TV or Google TV that feels slow and full of ads, and for coding agents that will run the scripts for them.

What can I do with TV Home?

4 use cases so far, for example: Debloat a slow Android TV over Wi-Fi; Install a fast Apple TV-style home screen; Type text into the TV from your laptop. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.

What do I need to run TV Home?

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.

What are alternatives to TV Home?

Other hot AI repos in Software and DevOps: Harness2, iFixAi, Orca, Diagram Design, AI Memory.

Is TV Home safe to run?

Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.