Az okostévék vásárlói közül sokan megelégelték a gyári felületeken megjelenő reklámokat, a lassú rendszert és az automatikus tartalomfelismerő adatkövetést. Fejlesztők és vállalkozó szellemű felhasználók AI kódolóeszközöket, például a Claude Code rendszert használják arra, hogy Wi-Fi-n keresztül letöröljék a felesleges gyári alkalmazásokat a tévéikről.
A folyamat során a mesterséges intelligencia átvizsgálja a készüléket, letiltja a gyári bloatware csomagokat, és egy letisztult, egyéni indítóképernyőt hoz létre. A GitHubon már megjelentek olyan nyílt forráskódú projektek is, mint a dumbtv vagy a cleanyourtv, amelyek a Fire TV, Android TV és Google TV rendszereken végzik el a takarítást anélkül, hogy véglegesen károsítanák a gyári szoftvert.
A módszer ugyanakkor kockázatokkal is jár. Bár sokaknak sikerült 25 felesleges csomagot eltávolítaniuk és felére csökkenteniük a rendszermemória használatát, felkészületlen utasítások esetén az AI hibázhat, ami a tévé működésképtelenségéhez vagy egyes funkciók leállásához vezethet.
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The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more.
One such solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on its GitHub page thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No ads from the TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.”
Another, “cleanyourtv,” promises to strip the bloatware from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi, to replace the launcher with one that resembles Apple TV.
While hacking consumer electronics devices to gain more control over their systems is hardly a new idea, the latest advances in AI technology have made such efforts much more accessible to anyone. With smart TVs in particular, the hacks come at a time when people have grown frustrated with being forced to watch ads and put up with their devices surveilling their viewing habits.
Modern smart TVs ship with a technology called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), which identifies what’s playing on the screen using screenshots, audio clips or other forms of digital fingerprinting.
If these “dumb TV” hacks become more popular among everyday consumers, they have the potential to disrupt the smart TV ad industry, which profits from selling viewing data to advertisers or using it to display personalized ads on their own interfaces.
As the creator of cleanyourtv, Gathin T., puts it, the idea to clean up the smart TV interface started one afternoon when he got tired of seeing the ads on his parents’ TV set.
Vibe coded my parents' TV this afternoon!It was showing a sponsored ad before you could even get to Netflix. Gave Claude Code the model number, it found the TV on wifi, removed 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new launcher.Looks like an Apple TV now lol pic.twitter.com/E5Q4A1b0yI
“I had Claude Code clean it up over Wi-Fi and build a simple home screen with just their apps on it. I put the prompt on GitHub, tweeted the before and after,s and a few thousand people did the same to their own TVs over the next two days. Xiaomi, TCL, Sony, Fire TV, LG, a projector or two,” the developer wrote on a website for donations, linked from the project’s homepage.
The solution doesn’t require gaining root access to the TV, nor does it make it impossible to return to the factory default state, if desired.
Meanwhile, the dumbtv solution has been tested end-to-end on a Fire TV Edition television set and Android/Google TV platforms on TVs from Sony, TCL, Philips, Hisense, Xiaomi, and Shield. To use this hack, the developer suggests pointing your preferred AI agent at the dumbtv repository on GitHub.
introducing dumbtv– no spying– no ads from tv– fully customisableto setup just point your agent to this repo – https://t.co/prQLD17Wa4 https://t.co/z41SWJZVXt pic.twitter.com/c6R8EhljiA
Fair warning: all these solutions are works in progress, and various users are now testing them across different TV platforms, and suggesting updates and fixes.
However, individuals don’t need to borrow someone else’s work from GitHub to get the job done.
In one newly viral X post, Ryan Doyle explains that he simply sent Claude Code the listing for his TV and asked “can you hack this?” The agent then talked him through the process, allowing him to remove the ads and bloatware from the TV set, speed up the lagging user interface, and customize his screensaver, he claims.
Doyle then goes on to demonstrate in a video how fast and responsive the new interface is after the AI made the requested changes.
This is how fast the TV moves now that Claude deleted all the BS laggy bloatware it comes with
