Why it mattersAn owner of a slow Android TV can run one prompt in Claude Code. The home screen gets cleaner and faster. No reset, no root, nothing uninstalled.
An Android TV at four years old is slow in a specific way. It plays video fine. It takes a long time to open the app that plays the video. Most of that time is spent on apps the owner never asked for, running in the background. A GitHub user, mihirgupta0900, pushed a project called tv-home last week that tries to fix that. The repository has 484 stars.
The entire tool is one Python script that drives the Android Debug Bridge over Wi-Fi. The README includes a single prompt the user pastes into Claude Code. Claude reads the device state and picks the bloat apps that are safe to disable. It then replaces the home-screen launcher and sets a rotating nature wallpaper. There is also a manual path for people who do not want to run an agent on their TV.
What it changes, measured
The README gives one worked example. On a 2 GB TCL Google TV, tv-home disabled 25 bloat apps. Home-screen memory use dropped from 192 MB to 83 MB. That is the only measured example in the project, and both numbers are the author's own figures on one device.
Two things make this safer than a usual debloating guide. First, the script disables apps rather than uninstalling them, so one command puts them back. Second, it only touches the home-screen launcher and the apps it finds listed as safe. Core system services and media apps are left alone. The project is MIT-licensed and the source is in the repository.
What it does not try to do
The project supports Android TV and Google TV on most brands. The README names TCL, Xiaomi, Redmi, Hisense, Sony, OnePlus, Realme, Nvidia Shield and Chromecast with Google TV. The author lists three families as out of scope. Samsung sets, which run Tizen. LG sets, which run webOS. And Fire TV. Those run different operating systems and would need their own tool.
A reader with a Samsung or LG TV reading this item cannot act on it. A reader with any of the supported sets can.
Where this fits for a developer
Three things are interesting about tv-home for someone building AI tools. The useful part is the division of work between a plain Python script and a model. The script owns everything with a known shape: the ADB connection, the list of installed packages, the install of the launcher APK. The model handles the thing a script cannot do by itself. It reads the device state. It decides which installed apps are safe to disable. It explains to the owner what it is about to do, before it does it.
That shape is one way to run an agent on a device the owner lives with. Give the script every reversible action. Let the model pick which action to run. The reader keeps control, because every change can be undone with one command.
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