This article was drafted with AI assistance and fact-checked against the project's README.

Your Google TV home screen is mostly sponsored rows, banners and autoplaying promos. Free My TV is an open source, ad-free home screen for Google TV that replaces it: "No ads. No sponsored rows, banners or autoplaying promos. Not one." It needs no root, and nothing is uninstalled.

What you need

A Google TV or Android TV running Android 9 or newer

A computer on the same Wi-Fi as the TV

About ten minutes

Step 1: Turn on developer mode and USB debugging on the TV

Open Settings → System → About and press Android TV OS build 7 times.

Open Settings → System → Developer options and turn on USB debugging .

Write down the TV's IP address ( Settings → Network & Internet ).

Step 2: Let an AI coding assistant install it

On your computer, open an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity) and say, with your own TV's IP and city:

Install Free My TV (github.com/simbasjungles/free-my-tv) on my TV at…