Image: github.com · CleanYourTV. Your TV, minus the ads. Strip the bloatware from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi and replace the ad-filled home screen with a clean launcher
CleanYourTV: open prompts and launcher for Android TV
A developer open-sourced the prompts, launcher source and problem-solving records on GitHub. The project reportedly gained about 13,700 stars quickly. The method uses ADB, not root.
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The full story
CleanYourTV is an open-source toolkit that debloats an Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi and replaces the home screen with a clean, Apple TV-style launcher. You give a coding assistant such as Claude Code the project's prompt, and it does the work in about fifteen minutes: it connects to the TV over ADB, switches off ad, tracking and preloaded packages, and installs the launcher. Nothing is rooted, and everything can be restored.
The repository is written in Python. It holds the prompts, the launcher source and records of problems people hit on particular models. It became one of the fastest-growing projects of the TV-debloating trend, passing 50,000 stars within weeks, and has been translated into ten languages.
The README is upfront about its limits. Samsung, LG, Roku, Vizio and Hisense VIDAA sets can't run it, so for those it points to a page on turning tracking off with the remote. It also links community apps for people without a coding agent.
The star count comes from a news report. A Chinese-language report says the published prompt tells Claude not to root the TV or flash custom ROMs.
Before and after
- Starting problem
- Manufacturer advertising, telemetry and preinstalled packages on supported TVs.
- Reported result
- Disables selected packages and can install a replacement launcher.
Device and compatibility
- Android TV or Google TV
Fire TV supports debloating only, with model-specific exceptions. Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Roku, Vizio and Hisense VIDAA are not supported by this toolkit.
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What you need
Can it be undone?
Reported reversible: The project disables packages rather than uninstalling them and provides restore tooling. Source ↗
What Claude did
- Follows the project prompt and existing scripts to back up settings, disable selected packages and build/install the launcher.Claude Code Source ↗
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How it was done
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Sources
From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- GitHub: Gathin23/cleanyourtv (debloat Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi)Repository account: Gathin23Source checked
The project itself: prompts, launcher source, per-model notes and a quick start for Android and Google TV.
- 36Kr: CleanYourTV coverage
A Chinese tech-media feature on installing Claude on a TV and what changed; long and general.
- Profesional Review: Claude agent speeds up Android TV without root
Spanish article on an engineer who used Claude Code over ADB to disable apps and reduce animations, making a slow TV fast again without root.
- YouTube: Debloat Your Smart TV Over Wi-Fi With AI, Get an Apple TV-Style Home - cleanyourtv (AndroiVideo channel: Github Trending ReposPublished
- Reddit: The new TV OSis GF approved!
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: The new TV OSis GF approved! (opens in a new tab)