Tv Home — Design skill for Claude Code

tv-home

**Make a slow, ad-filled Android TV fast and clean again.** Debloat it over Wi-Fi and give it a tiny Apple TV-style home screen with rotating nature wallpapers. You can hand the whole thing to Claude Code with one prompt, or do it by hand with the scripts here.


On a 2 GB TCL Google TV this disabled 25 bloat apps and cut the home screen's memory use from 192 MB to 83 MB. Everything is reversible: packages are disabled, never uninstalled.

Do it with Claude Code (easiest)

1. On the TV: Settings → System → About → press OK on **Build** 7 times → back → Developer options → turn on **USB debugging**. Keep the TV on, on the same Wi-Fi as your computer.

2. Clone this repo, open Claude Code inside it (so it can reuse the launcher and scripts), and paste:

   My Android TV is slow and full of ads. Find it on my Wi-Fi, connect over ADB, and debloat it:
   disable the manufacturer's ads, telemetry and junk (reversibly, never uninstall), asking me first
   about apps and features I might use. Then build and install a fast, minimal Apple TV-style home
   screen with a dock of my favourite apps and rotating nature wallpapers. Back up before changing
   anything, check every step with screenshots from the TV, and give me a restore script.
   
   Heads-up from people who've done this: use the adb-shell Python package if macOS blocks adb; on
   Google TV also disable com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith or it hijacks the Home button; and
   test the Home button from inside an app.

3. Accept "Allow USB debugging?" on the TV when asked, then answer a few questions: which apps you use, which go in the dock, whether you want wallpapers.

The prompt is short on purpose; Claude works out the details. The gotchas below are there in case it gets stuck.

Do it by hand (macOS)

./setup.sh