Your TV's home screen is a billboard. Sponsored rows, autoplaying promos, banners for shows you will never watch. Free My TV is an open source home screen for Google TV and Android TV, with LG webOS and Samsung Tizen versions, that replaces all of that with your own apps on a clean shelf, a few trending picks from apps you already have, and the weather. It went from zero to over 4,000 GitHub stars in its first week.

The pitch that matters for developers: no root, nothing uninstalled, and one button brings back the factory home screen. The authors measured 60 fps and 96 MB of memory for the home screen versus 242 MB for the stock one on a 98 inch TCL Google TV running Android 14.

This guide covers three install paths: letting a coding agent do it, the manual adb route for Google TV, and the LG webOS route people keep searching for.

Before you start

A Google TV or Android TV on Android 8 or newer, or an LG TV on webOS 3+, or a Samsung TV from 2016+

A computer on the same Wi-Fi

For Google TV: adb (and a…