How to clean the ads off your Android TV with Claude Code
A 51-second video shows Claude Code removing the ads and preloaded apps from an Android TV over Wi-Fi and giving it a home screen that looks like an Apple TV. Here is the full guide: which TVs it works on, what to switch on first, the prompt to paste, what Claude does on your TV, how to undo it, and how to design your own home screen.
A short video claims that thousands of people are hacking their own TVs with Claude Code right now. In the video’s telling, it all started with a Xiaomi TV that showed an ad before it would even open Netflix. The person who fixed it gave Claude Code the TV’s model number, and Claude found the TV on the Wi-Fi, switched off 25 of Xiaomi’s apps and wrote a new home screen that looks like an Apple TV. The whole method is free on GitHub as CleanYourTV. The video saves its last trick for the end: designing your own home screen, with wallpapers and avatars for the whole family made by Higgsfield.
The video ends by asking you to comment “HACK” to receive the full guide. You do not need to: the guide is below. It was checked on 27 October 2026 against the project’s README, the prompt it asks you to paste and its theme guide, so it also covers what the video skips: the TVs it cannot work on, what to switch on first, what Claude does on your TV, how to close the connection when you are done, and the part of the video that the project does not do for you.
What it does
The project began on 17 October 2026, when its author, Gathin, posted a before and after of the TV at their parents’ home, cleaned up by Claude Code over Wi-Fi. According to the project’s README, the post reached 7.4 million views and people started doing the same to their own TVs. Their reports became the project’s lists of tested TVs: the README counts 335 models from 92 brands, and on 27 October 2026 the repository had more than 40,000 stars on GitHub.
The method relies on a feature every Android TV already has. Android TVs have the same debugging connection as Android phones, called ADB (Android Debug Bridge). Once you switch it on and allow your computer once, a program on that computer can run commands on the TV over your Wi-Fi. Claude Code uses that connection to do three things:
The project sums it up as “No root, no cable, nothing uninstalled, and a one-line restore if you change your mind.” Rooting means breaking into the TV’s system to get full control of it, and CleanYourTV never does it.
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