[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fveljs8xbld2k":3},{"code":4,"message":5,"data":6,"timestamp":26},10000,"success",{"full_name":7,"position":8,"description":9,"language":10,"stars":11,"forks":12,"stars_gained":13,"age_days":14,"hn_threads":15,"one_liner":16,"summary_md":17,"topic":18,"github_topics":21,"license":22,"homepage":23,"updated_at":24,"history":25},"cocombee\u002Fglass-tv",14,"Make your Android TV or Google TV fast and ad-free again: debloat it over Wi-Fi, then come home to a glass home screen with a new place to visit every week.","Java",125,126,25,5,[],"Replaces ad-filled Android TV home screens with a lightweight glass launcher and debloats the TV over Wi-Fi.","If your Android TV boots slowly, buries your apps under promoted rows, and fills its cache until apps open to blank screens, Glass TV offers a two-part fix: a scripted debloat over Wi-Fi plus a replacement launcher. Setup is not a one-click install; it assumes you can reach the TV by IP and run shell commands on a computer.\n\n## The problem\n\nA stock Google TV or Android TV home screen interleaves your apps with promoted content, and the Play Store's download leftovers accumulate in app caches until apps open slowly or blank. The usual remedy is a remote-heavy manual cleanup, repeated whenever the clutter returns. Glass TV changes the workflow twice: a debloat script disables bundled services over the network without root, and its launcher replaces the home screen with an app grid backed by a rotating picture. The result is a TV that starts straight to your apps, with no ads in the grid.\n\n## What's different\n\nThe launcher is intentionally small. The README reports 80–100 MB of memory on a Xiaomi Mi TV with 1.8 GB RAM, one wallpaper held in memory, and nothing running while you are inside an app. Android 10 has no live blur, so Glass TV fakes the frosted-glass look by blurring the picture once per change and drawing the glass over a patch of it — a trade-off worth knowing if you expect real-time translucency.\n\nThe weekly \"places\" feature pulls Bing's daily images on the TV itself, skips pictures whose captions suggest people and runs Android's face detector as a second filter, then rotates the images dimmed behind the app grid. It needs no account or API key, but it does make the launcher go online; setting `\"places\": false` in a theme and pushing it with `tools\u002Ftheme.sh` keeps the launcher offline. Debloating also has a maintenance side: every 15 days, while Home is idle, the TV is asked once to clear its app caches, leaving sign-ins and app data alone.\n\n## Who should try it\n\nGood fit: a developer or tinkerer with an Android TV or Google TV, Android 8 or newer, who is comfortable finding the TV's IP and running scripts, and who values a quiet app grid over vendor content. Also a fit for someone with an underpowered TV whose cache buildup causes blank launches.\n\nPoor fit: LG webOS and Samsung Tizen owners. Neither platform can run Android apps or let an app replace the home screen or Home button; the README points those users to an external Android TV box, and the LG app version is labeled preview only, with a Samsung version merely planned. Anyone wanting a no-computer install should consider the documented agent-assisted path, but should still expect a step-by-step, confirmation-gated process rather than an app-store download.\n\n## Requirements and limitations\n\nYou need Android TV or Google TV on Android 8+, the TV's IP address, and a Python environment on a computer to run the debloat and theme tools; the README's setup block builds a virtualenv, installs requirements, then runs `tools\u002Fdisable.sh`, `launcher\u002Fbuild-and-install.sh` and `tools\u002Ftheme.sh`. Device coverage is documented per model in [DEVICES.md](https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fcocombee\u002Fglass-tv\u002Fblob\u002Fmain\u002Fdocs\u002FDEVICES.md), distinguishing end-to-end, original-launcher and debloat-only testing — check your model there before assuming the launcher replaces Home cleanly.\n\nOngoing upkeep includes re-pushing themes for wallpaper changes and letting the documented cache-clean step run on its 15-day cycle, or using `tools\u002Fcache-clean.sh` across several TVs. The Bing image rotation depends on Microsoft's feed and the caption\u002Fface filters, so image choice is not fully under your control unless you switch to local wallpapers. The debloat path is described as reversible by the project, but that describes the scripts, not a guarantee about every vendor's behavior; review the debloat list for your TV rather than treating it as universal.\n\n## HotRepo's take\n\nHotRepo first recorded this repository on 2026-10-24, when it was five days old, and placed it at #14 on the NEW-REPOSITORY board for Java on 2026-10-25 with 125 total stars. That is a snapshot from a young repo, not daily growth, and there is insufficient comparable board history to judge whether interest persists. The concrete thing to verify before investing time is whether your exact TV model appears in the device compatibility list with end-to-end testing rather than debloat-only coverage.",{"slug":19,"name":20},"productivity","Productivity & Utilities",[],"NOASSERTION",null,"2026-10-25T03:06:43Z",[],1792909533]