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Strip ads from your Android TV home screen and get a clean launcher
CleanYourTV is an open-source project from GitHub that cleans ads and bloat off your Android TV or Google TV home screen. After setup, your TV shows a clean home screen instead of the ad-filled one.
It's a set of scripts plus a coding agent that disable ad and tracking services on your TV over Wi-Fi and replace the stock home screen with a clean one.
When it helps
Useful if your Android TV or Google TV shows ads on the home screen and you have a laptop with a coding agent. Doesn't work on Samsung, LG, Roku, Vizio or Hisense VIDAA — they lack the debug access this needs, leaving only manual tracking opt-out there.
Pros
- Nothing gets uninstalled — everything restores with one command
- Supports hundreds of models from TCL, Sony, Xiaomi and more
- The agent verifies every step with screenshots from your TV
- Setup takes about fifteen minutes
Cons
- Needs ADB — the same debug access missing on Samsung, LG, Roku
- On Amazon Fire TV only ad-removal works, no new launcher
- Without a laptop and coding agent this approach won't work
How to set it up — step by step
- 1Turn on USB debugging on the TV: Settings → About → press Build 7 times → Developer options → USB debugging.
- 2Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv and open the folder in your agent.
- 3Send the agent the text from the block below.
- 4Accept the "Allow USB debugging?" prompt on the TV and answer the agent's checklist questions.
- 5Check the final home screen in the screenshot the agent sends you.
Text for your agent
Copy this and send it to your agent — Claude Code, Codex, any of them:
Deploy CleanYourTV from https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv — clone the repo, turn on USB debugging on the TV (Settings → Device → About → tap Build 7 times → Developer options → USB debugging), and hand the agent the PROMPT.md file with your TV model — it will disable the ads and install a clean launcher from there. Show me a screenshot of the final home screen.
A regular laptop with an agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI) — the full path also needs Python 3, a JDK 17–22, and the Android SDK; for an Android phone there's a separate app that needs no laptop at all.
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