A fast, ad-free home screen for Google TV, LG and Samsung TVs.
Trending picks from your own apps, the weather at a glance, and a look that follows the sunset.
Open source. Built with Claude Code. One button to undo.
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- No ads. No sponsored rows, banners or autoplaying promos. Not one.
- Your apps, front and center. The streaming apps you actually use, on a glass shelf. Pick them and their order right on the TV, or (on Google TV and Android TV) let the one you opened last come first.
- Trending, not sponsored. Three fresh picks every hour (up to six, in Home Settings) from what's trending this week and the latest releases, only from apps you already have, and from the services you choose. The focused one opens wide and the others show their posters. Movies and Shows get their own tabs, and on Google TV your own Plex library can join in.
- Continue Watching (Google TV and Android TV). Home Settings → Top of the screen puts what you left halfway in your apps on top, with its progress, and OK picks it up in its app. Or a big clock, or the picks.
- Your TMDB key from your phone. Home Settings → TMDB key shows a QR code: scan it and paste the key. On LG and Samsung, type it with the remote.
- Weather and markets, one press away. The hour-by-hour forecast (or the next 5 days), sunrise and sunset, and live crypto prices; on LG and Samsung, also rain in the next two hours, the UV index and the air quality.
- Live TV or your box on HDMI, one press away (LG and Samsung). Home Settings → Live TV button picks what the first top button opens: Live TV, as before, or one of the TV's HDMI inputs, shown under the name you gave the input on the TV when it has one. On a TV with no antenna, Home Settings → Live TV takes its tile out of the inputs.
- What's playing. Music, a podcast or the radio going on in the background shows on the home screen and the screensaver: the title, the artist and the app, from any app that tells Android what it plays (Home Settings, off until you turn it on).
- The status at a glance, and a mouse (Google TV and Android TV). Home Settings → Status icons puts Wi-Fi or Ethernet, Bluetooth audio and a USB drive at the top of the home screen; off, nothing listens for them. A mouse or an air-mouse remote works too: hover moves the focus, the wheel scrolls, a click picks.
- Light by day, dark by night. It follows your city's real sunset, the way your phone does.
- A screensaver to match. Full-screen photos of the picks with a big glass clock. On LG and Samsung, Home Settings → Screensaver can make it a large clock with the weather instead, drifting slowly so it doesn't burn into OLED screens. Optionally (Watch from the screensaver, in Home Settings), OK opens the title on screen in its app, and any other button just closes it.
- Dimming for a dark room (LG and Samsung). Home Settings → Dim darkens Free My TV's own screens, not the apps you open: low, medium, high, or automatic (medium from 22:00 to 07:00). Off until you pick it.
- Your own photos (Google TV and Android TV). Send them from your computer (up to 100): the screensaver shows them, and without picks one is the home screen's background each hour.
- Fast. 60 fps, every frame in 16.6 ms, on the TV's own chip. The home screen uses 96 MB of memory instead of 242 MB (−60%).
Measured on a 98″ TCL Google TV running Android 14. - Set up on the TV. Language, your city, temperature, theme, how many picks and which streaming services they come from, the weather and prices cards, the forecast's hours or days, which coins, and the apps on the shelf, in Free My TV's own settings.
- Safe. No root. Nothing is uninstalled. One button brings back the factory home screen.
About ten minutes. You need a Google TV or Android TV (Android 8 or newer) and a computer on the same Wi-Fi. The APK goes on the TV, not on your phone (on a phone, the settings say so and nothing switches).
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On the TV, turn on developer mode: Settings → System → About → press Android TV OS build 7 times. Then Settings → System → Developer options → turn on USB debugging. Write down the TV's IP address (Settings → Network & Internet).
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On your computer, open an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity) and say:
Install Free My TV (github.com/simbasjungles/free-my-tv) on my TV at 192.168.1.50. I live in Lisbon.
It downloads the code, installs the tools it needs, builds the app and puts it on your TV, and asks before anything important. Swap in your TV's IP and your city.
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On the TV, open Free My TV → Home Screen → Free My TV. That's when the TV asks Allow USB debugging? for Free My TV: tick Always allow and accept.
No tools to install besides adb. The APK on the latest release has no TMDB key: add yours on the TV for the picks (Home Settings → TMDB key, below). It takes your city from the TV's time zone (change it in Home Settings → City).
If you built Free My TV yourself before, switch back to Original and uninstall it first: your build and the release are signed with different keys.
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On the TV, do step 1 above.
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On your computer, download
FreeMyTV.apkfrom the release and install it:adb connect 192.168.1.50:5555 adb install -r FreeMyTV.apk
On Android 14, Google Play Protect may hold the install with Risky app blocked: choose More details → Install anyway.
Install it with adb like this, not by opening the APK on the TV: from a file manager or a browser, Play Protect can refuse it outright with App blocked to protect your device (in some countries it blocks sideloaded apps that have an accessibility service or a notification listener, which Free My TV uses for the remote's buttons and Now Playing; #378).
On TCL TVs, also let it run in the background (TCL blocks it by default, and the switch never starts). An uninstall takes the permission back, so run it again after every new install:
adb shell "appops set io.freemytv AUTO_START allow || appops set io.freemytv APP_AUTO_START allow" -
On the TV, do step 3 above.
For the picks, add your TMDB key in Home Settings → TMDB key (below).
Updates come to the TV. Once a week the APK from the release looks for a newer release and downloads it; the home screen then says so once, and Home Settings → Updates (the last row) installs it through Android's installer, which asks first (and, the first time, asks to allow Free My TV to install apps). OK on Updates also checks right away. The download must come from this repository's releases, match the size and SHA-256 GitHub lists, be newer, and be signed with the project's key. A build you made yourself checks only when you press Updates, and only says when a new version is out: build it again to update.
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On the TV, do step 1 above.
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Tools: a JDK (17+), the Android SDK command-line tools (build-tools 34, platform android-34) and adb. On a Mac:
brew install --cask temurin android-commandlinetools android-platform-tools sdkmanager "build-tools;34.0.0" "platforms;android-34"
On Linux, get OpenJDK 17, Android's command-line tools and adb from your package manager, then run the same
sdkmanagerline. On Windows, use Git Bash (which Claude Code uses there) or WSL. -
Build:
./build.sh
The first run creates
config.properties. Set your city and your TMDB key there, then run it again. -
Install:
adb connect 192.168.1.50:5555 adb install -r FreeMyTV.apk
If the install seems stuck, look at the TV: on Android 14, Google Play Protect may hold it with Risky app blocked ("built for an older version of Android"), since Free My TV targets Android 13. Choose More details → Install anyway. Updates don't ask again.
Chromecast with Google TV on Android 14 keeps port 5555 closed even with USB debugging on: turn on Wireless debugging (Developer options), pair with
adb pair <address:port> <code>, then runadb tcpip 5555over that connection. Port 5555 closes again at every restart, so after one, Original, the watchdog and the boot check can't reach ADB until you runadb tcpip 5555again (the pairing stays).On TCL TVs, also let it run in the background (TCL blocks it by default, and the switch never starts). An uninstall takes the permission back, so run it again after every new install:
adb shell "appops set io.freemytv AUTO_START allow || appops set io.freemytv APP_AUTO_START allow" -
On the TV, open Free My TV → Home Screen → Free My TV. The TV asks Allow USB debugging? once more, now for Free My TV itself: tick Always allow and accept. (Run
adb disconnect 192.168.1.50:5555first: on Android 8 to 10 the TV can hand that answer to a computer that's still connected.)On some TCL TVs (Android 11, Realtek), a second background killer, TGuard, can stop the switch while it measures the original home screen: the settings screen closes and the TV's own home screen stays. Android runs the switch again by itself within a minute or two; then press Home: Free My TV opening means it went through.
The same home screen as an LG app: the picks, the glass shelf with your apps, the drawer with inputs, weather and prices, day and night, Home Settings and the shelf editor. It installs through LG's own Developer Mode, with nothing rooted or changed on the TV. LG's home screen stays where it is, and Free My TV is one press of a number key away (or in LG's app list, on remotes without them).
You need an LG TV (webOS 3 or newer) and a computer on the same Wi-Fi, with Python 3.
- On the TV, open the LG Content Store and install Developer Mode. Sign in with a free LG developer account, turn on Dev Mode Status (the TV restarts), then turn on Key Server. Write down the IP address and the passphrase it shows.
- On your computer, get the code and build.
config.propertiesworks as for Google TV (your city, your TMDB key):git clone https://github.com/simbasjungles/free-my-tv && cd free-my-tv python3 webos/build.py
- Install. The first time, it asks for the TV's passphrase; updates don't. On a TV that isn't 4K, it puts the app in at 1280 × 720, the size those TVs draw apps at:
python3 webos/install.py 192.168.1.50
- On the TV, while Free My TV is open, hold a number key on the remote. From then on, that key opens it from anywhere. On a remote without number keys, open it from LG's app list on the home screen, like any other app.
With an AI assistant, say "Install Free My TV (github.com/simbasjungles/free-my-tv) on my LG TV at 192.168.1.50. I live in Lisbon." It builds the app and hands you the install command, so you type the passphrase yourself.
With the webOS Homebrew Channel, you can skip the computer: add the repository https://freemytv.io/webos/apps.json in the Channel's settings, and Free My TV shows up in its list. That's the release build: it takes the city from the TV's time zone (change it in Home Settings → City), and for the picks you type your TMDB key in Home Settings → TMDB key. If you installed your own build, don't update it from there, or the release replaces it. On some LG TVs that aren't 4K, that build fills only the top-left part of the screen: install.py puts it in at the right size there.
On webOS 6 and newer, LG doesn't let apps installed through Developer Mode see which apps the TV has. Free My TV then shows the well-known ones it finds (Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, Plex and more) and asks the TV, once, for the access LG's phone app uses: a message on the TV asks whether to allow Free My TV. Allow it, and from the next start all your apps show, with their icons.
Older LG TVs (webOS 3) don't let Free My TV see their apps at all, so the shelf stays empty. There your computer asks the TV instead (the TV asks once whether to allow it), and the list and icons are built into the app. Run it again after installing new apps on the TV:
python3 webos/apps.py 192.168.1.50 && python3 webos/build.py && python3 webos/install.py 192.168.1.50Developer Mode lasts about 40 days: open the Developer Mode app now and then and press EXTEND, or let your computer do it with python3 webos/renew.py 192.168.1.50 (it needs the TV on and reachable, and the key install.py already saved). Run that on a schedule and you never touch EXTEND again — weekly is plenty; webos/renew.py shows a cron line for macOS and Linux and a Task Scheduler one for Windows. To remove Free My TV, run python3 webos/install.py 192.168.1.50 --uninstall.
The same home screen as a Samsung app, with everything the LG one has: the picks, the shelf, the drawer with the inputs, the weather and the prices, day and night, and its own settings. It installs through Samsung's own Developer Mode, with nothing rooted or changed on the TV, and Samsung's home screen stays where it is.
You need a Samsung TV on Tizen, from 2015 or newer, and a computer on the same Wi-Fi (a 2015 UE48JU6100 on Tizen 2.3 was reported working, #317, while a 2016 Full HD UE49K5670 refuses developer installs altogether, with failed[118] even from Samsung's own tizen install, #349 (but this is fixable — see tizen/install-118.md): on a 2016 UE49KU6640 and a UN49KU6400 the same answer was a copy left by an earlier failed install, which python3 tizen/install.py <IP> --uninstall removed (sign with a Tizen certificate there: a Samsung one kept getting it on the KU6400); Orsay models can't run it, but a Google TV streamer on HDMI can). 2015 and 2016 TVs can't run TizenBrew, so on those build it yourself (below); TV Settings isn't in the drawer there, since apps can't open the TV's settings, nor on 2017 and 2018 TVs (Tizen 3 and 4), which freeze trying (#257); the remote's own Settings button works on all of them.
- On the TV, open Apps and type
1 2 3 4 5on the remote. Turn Developer mode on, type your computer's IP address in Host PC IP, and restart the TV. - On your computer, download TizenBrew Installer, the community's installer for Samsung TVs, open it and connect to your TV.
- Install from GitHub: type
simbasjungles/free-my-tv. On 2023 and newer TVs it asks you to sign in to your Samsung account once, to sign the app for your TV. - Straight to it: in the TV's settings, under Start Screen Options, turn on Autorun Last App: the TV turns on into Free My TV (tested on a 2017 TV; 2019 and 2020 TVs don't reopen it, #356). There, move Free My TV to the first place in the Home bar, so it's one press away.
TizenBrew Installer said Package installed, but Free My TV isn't on the TV? It can say that when the TV refused the app (#490); python3 tizen/install.py <TV IP>, with the release's FreeMyTV-tizen.wgt in this repository's folder, shows the TV's own answer. download failed[116] there usually means the TV has too little free storage left for apps: delete some you don't use (on 2020 and newer TVs, Settings → Support → Device Care → Manage Storage), then install again.
This build takes your city from the TV's time zone (change it in Home Settings → City), and for the trending picks you type your TMDB key in Home Settings → TMDB key. To build it with your own config.properties instead, open the folder in Claude Code and say "Install Free My TV on my Samsung TV at 192.168.1.50. I live in Lisbon." It sets up Samsung's tools, and on 2023 and newer TVs you sign in to your Samsung account in the browser to make the certificate. Your signed build installs with python3 tizen/install.py 192.168.1.50, which needs only Python: no Tizen Studio, and no Rosetta on Apple Silicon Macs.
The first values come from config.properties, created by the first build (Google TV, LG and Samsung use the same file). Most of them can also be changed on the TV, in Free My TV → Home Settings, and the TV's choice wins:
| Key | What it does | Default |
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tmdb_key |
Your free TMDB key, for the picks | empty |
tmdb_region |
Your country (two letters): which titles are on which app | US |
watchmode_key |
Optional, free Watchmode key: a pick opens the title's page in its app. On Google TV and Android TV you can also send it from your phone | empty |
plex_url and plex_token |
Optional, your Plex server's plex.direct address and token: its newest titles join the picks and open on their page |
empty |
trakt_client_id |
Optional: the Client ID of your own free Trakt API app. Home Settings > Picks then gets a Trakt row to sign in with a code, and the picks start with what you're in the middle of, bring in your watchlist and leave out what you've watched. Google TV only | empty |
home_assistant_url, home_assistant_entities |
Optional: buttons for your own Home Assistant in the bottom drawer (Google TV only; the token goes from the computer, not in here) | empty |
latitude, longitude |
Your city, for the weather and the sunset | New York |
city |
The name on the weather card | Weather |
hide_animation |
Leave cartoons and anime out of the picks; Cartoons and anime in Home Settings (under Picks on Google TV) changes it on the TV | false |
open_in_stremio |
A pick opens on its page in Stremio when the Stremio app is on the TV, instead of in the app it streams on. The picks stay the same: only from the TV's own apps. Google TV only | false |
open_in_nuvio |
The same, in Nuvio (com.nuvio.tv, or com.nuvio.app from Google Play). With both apps on the TV and both lines true, Nuvio opens. Google TV only |
false |
language |
auto (follows the TV), or a language with a translation (en, pt, es, de, ru, fr, ja…) |
auto |
show_crypto |
Show Binance crypto prices on home and screensaver | true |
currency |
Crypto prices in USD, EUR, BRL… |
USD |
temperature |
C, F or auto |
auto |
theme |
auto (dark from sunset to sunrise), light or dark |
auto |
disable_assistant |
Also turn off Google Assistant | false |
screensaver |
false keeps the TV's own screensaver: Free My TV then changes only the home screen and the promo apps (Google TV) |
true |
hide_services |
Streaming services to leave out of the picks even when their app is on the TV (netflix, prime, disney…), comma separated; for apps the TV ships that you don't subscribe to. On Google TV and Android TV, a service that TMDB lists in your country under the same name as an app on the TV also appears in Picks from, off until you switch it on. It is where the switches in Home Settings › Picks › Picks from start; what you switch on the TV wins. Google TV only |
empty |
hide_apps |
Apps to leave out of the shelf, All Apps and the picks, by id or name (part of it), comma separated; for apps the TV ships that can't be uninstalled, like Samsung's built-in Netflix. LG and Samsung only | empty |
shelf_apps |
The shelf's apps in this order, by id or name (part of it), comma separated; changing it wins once over the shelf picked on the TV. On Samsung, a whole app id also brings an app the TV leaves out of its list, like one installed in Developer Mode. LG and Samsung only | empty |
drawer_first |
true opens the home screen with the drawer already out (apps in the middle, inputs, weather and prices below), so nothing has to be scrolled to reach the inputs; Back closes it to the full page. For a TV whose streaming apps live on a box, where the picks stay empty. LG and Samsung only |
false |
immich_server |
Optional: your Immich server: your own photos come from it, on each TV you send its key to (with tools/send_key.py, never here). Google TV only |
empty |
open_picks_in |
Where a pick opens: apps (the streaming app that has it) or nuvio (its page in Nuvio, when the TV has it); Home Settings changes it on the TV. LG only (Samsung passes no link yet) |
apps |
Changed something? Run ./build.sh and install again. Keep freemytv.keystore: updates are signed with it.
Free, and it takes two minutes: create an account at themoviedb.org, then open Settings → API and request a developer key. Paste the API Read Access Token (or the API Key) after tmdb_key=. It's your key: config.properties stays out of git.
On Google TV and Android TV you can also add it on the TV, which the APK from the releases needs: Home Settings → TMDB key
shows a QR code. Scan it with your phone (on the same Wi-Fi), paste the key and send it; the TV checks it with TMDB and
keeps it. The code works once, for 5 minutes, and only while it's on screen. The phone's page is plain HTTP on your own
Wi-Fi: on a network you don't trust (a hotel's), type the key instead. No phone at hand? Type it with the remote: the
short API Key (32 characters) is the easier one to type. A key added on the TV wins over the one in config.properties,
and Remove the key goes back to it.
On LG and Samsung you can also type it on the TV, in Home Settings → TMDB key: the short API Key (32 characters) is the easier one to type with the remote. TMDB checks it before it's saved, it stays on the TV, and it wins over the one in config.properties (Remove the key goes back to that one).
With a free Watchmode key (Home Settings → Watchmode key on Google TV and Android TV: a QR code for your phone, or typed, as for the TMDB key; or watchmode_key= in config.properties, and the TV's wins), a pick opens its own page in the streaming app instead of the app's home. The free plan (2,500 credits a month) is enough: each title costs two requests the first time and is remembered after that. It works where the app takes the title's web address (tested: Prime Video, JioHotstar, Netflix and Disney+); where it doesn't, the pick just opens the app, as without a key.
On Google TV and Android TV, the bottom drawer can hold buttons for your own Home Assistant: a light, a scene for movie night, a fan. In config.properties:
home_assistant_url=http://homeassistant.local:8123
home_assistant_entities=light.living_room, scene.movie_night, switch.fanBuild and install again: Home Settings gets a Home Assistant row (only builds with an address have it). Then send the token from the computer, a long-lived access token (in Home Assistant: your profile → Security → Long-lived access tokens):
python3 tools/send_key.py 192.168.1.50 home_assistant_tokenIt asks for the token without showing it, checks it with your server, lists what each entity becomes, sends it over adb into the app's private files, and asks the TV whether it arrived (Android 9 and newer). It never goes into the APK or config.properties, since any app on the TV can read an installed APK, and a Home Assistant token reaches every service, locks included. A Home Assistant user of its own that isn't an administrator is still safest. --remove takes it off the TV again.
Then turn on Home Settings → Home Assistant on the TV: it starts off. A group of buttons joins Inputs and Shortcuts, one per entity (up to 8, in your order), with its name from Home Assistant; every tile in the drawer shares one width, so more buttons make them all narrower. OK toggles a light, switch, fan or cover, turns on a scene or script, runs an automation or presses a button; one that is off shows dimmed. Locks and alarms are never offered, since anyone in the room can press a TV remote, and covers only when they shade a window (awning, blind, curtain, shade or shutter): not garage doors, gates or doors, nor a cover without a class, as many garage doors are. A script, scene, automation or button runs whatever it's set to do, so don't list one that unlocks a door, opens the garage or turns off an alarm: the same promise as no locks. The address can be http:// only on your own network (a private address like 192.168.1.20, or a .local, .lan or .home.arpa name); anything else needs https://, and redirects aren't followed.
On Google TV and Android TV, with the TV connected over adb (see Install), send photos or whole folders from your computer:
python3 tools/photos.py <TV IP> beach.jpg hills.jpg Holidays/They land in the app's own folder on the TV (no permission needed); on Android 11, which keeps adb out of other apps' folders, they go through Free My TV itself. The next time the home screen, the screensaver or Free My TV's settings open, the app imports each one: turned upright, kept whole (never cropped) at the TV's size and saved without its GPS and other tags; what was sent is then deleted. The screensaver shows them in the order you sent them, instead of the picks' photos: most fill the screen with a slow zoom, as the picks' do (a 3:2 or 4:3 photo loses a little of its height), and those that would lose more than about 30% of their height or width, like portraits and panoramas, show whole and still, on black; without a TMDB key, one of them is the home screen's background, a new one every hour. Home Settings → My Photos: the arrows turn them on or off, OK removes them. Up to 100; JPEG, PNG and WebP, and HEIC on Android 9 and newer.
With an Immich server, the TV can fetch them by itself. In config.properties, set immich_server to its address (http://192.168.1.20:2283 on your network, or its https:// address), then build and install again. Then make a key in Immich → Account Settings → API Keys (asset.read, asset.view, asset.download and album.read are enough) and send it to each TV that should show your photos (Android 9 and newer):
python3 tools/send_key.py <TV IP> immich_api_keyIt asks for the key without showing it, checks it with your server (a search, a preview and an original, as the TV does), puts it in the app's private storage on the TV over adb, and asks the TV whether it arrived. It never goes into the APK, which any app on the TV can read, nor into config.properties; --remove takes it off the TV. A TV without the key keeps My Photos as above.
Every 6 hours, when the home screen opens, a new random choice of up to 40 photos comes in (at least 1080 pixels on their short side), one at a time, through the same import. Nothing goes before something new has come: at 100 the oldest of Immich's make room, and the photos you sent with tools/photos.py always stay. Home Settings → My Photos then chooses where they come from: Default (none of yours: the picks' photos), Immich: all photos or one of its albums; after a change, the previous ones go as the new ones arrive. TVs with little memory or a 720p screen take Immich's preview of each photo instead of the original.
A server given as http:// must be on your own network (a private address like 192.168.1.20, or a .local, .lan or .home.arpa name; the build stops otherwise), and only its address may be reached without HTTPS; anything else needs https:// (over Tailscale, the server's https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net address, which Tailscale can serve with a certificate). The app never follows a redirect from it, so the key only goes to that address.
Set plex_url and plex_token in config.properties, and one of the newest movies and one of the newest shows of your Plex server (another one each time the list is made, a few times a day, among the latest 8 of each kind) join the picks, with their own poster and backdrop, tagged "Plex". A tab shows at most one. Selecting one opens the title's page in the Plex app. If the server can't be reached when the list is made, its titles are left out.
This is for Google TV and Android TV, and it needs the TMDB key and at least one streaming app on the TV: without those no picks come at all, Plex included.
plex_urlis the server's ownplex.directaddress, which has a valid certificate (the TV checks it as for any site; plainhttpand any other address are ignored, so a typo never sends your token anywhere). It looks likehttps://192-168-1-20.0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef.plex.direct:32400: your server's local IP with dashes, then its id. Open any item in Plex's web app, Get Info → View XML, and the address bar has it, before/library/....plex_tokenis on the same address, afterX-Plex-Token=. It gives access to your Plex account, and any app on the TV can read the APK it is built into, so use the token of a Plex Home managed user with access to your libraries, not your own, and never commit it.
The TV talks to your server directly on your network. If the server can't be reached, the other picks load as usual.
On the TV: Free My TV → Home Screen → Original. The factory home screen, screensaver and every app come back exactly as they were. If the new home screen ever crashes three times in five minutes, it switches back by itself.
To remove it for good, switch to Original first, then uninstall Free My TV (Settings → Apps). Uninstalled it while it was on? Install it again and pick Original: the list of what it turned off is kept in the TV's settings, so everything comes back.
- It becomes the home screen and, unless
screensaver=false, the screensaver. - Picking Continue Watching in Home Settings grants
READ_TV_LISTINGSwithpm grantthrough the TV's own ADB; Original takes it back withpm revoke. Pictures come only from the TV (content://,android.resource://), never from the network. - It turns off, without uninstalling:
- the stock home screen and screensaver (the screensaver stays with
screensaver=false); - Google TV's recovery home, Play Games and YouTube Music;
- on TCL TVs, messages, store demo, hotel menu, manuals, mirroring and logging apps;
- on Philco TVs, AI PONT (promo channels and app downloads) and the manual;
- on Multilaser TVs, Anoki's screen-content recognition (ACR), the store demo and the manual;
- on KTC-made TVs (NextStar), Anoki's screen-content recognition (ACR), the store demo and the manual;
- Google Assistant, only with
disable_assistant=true.
- the stock home screen and screensaver (the screensaver stays with
- On Google TV, the Assistant's results for films and shows come from Google TV's home app, which is off in Free My TV mode: asking it to play a show can end in "Sorry, I don't understand", and a search can show only YouTube videos. Opening apps, questions and apps' own voice search (YouTube's, for one) still work; Original brings it all back.
- On TCL TVs, the remote's Netflix, YouTube and Prime buttons keep working through a small accessibility service that only reads those buttons. Pick what each one opens in Free My TV → Remote Buttons; Original turns the service off. The Settings button opens TV Settings; in Remote Buttons it can open Quick Settings instead, a panel over what's playing (Inputs, Display, Sound, Network, Bluetooth, Accessibility and all settings) in place of Google TV's, which is part of its home screen. On TCL TVs with Android 11 the service stays off, since with it the TV moved the volume two steps per press: there the buttons work on Free My TV's home screen. On Vestel-made TVs (F&U and other store brands) and Xiaomi (Formovie) projectors the same goes for the Netflix button, and on KTC-made TVs (NextStar) for the Tabii button. On Sony TVs, the BRAVIA CORE, Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, YouTube and Crunchyroll buttons (and Google Play or SonyLIV, on remotes that have them) can each open the app you pick, or keep Sony's default. On Sony's Google TV models, where those buttons went through Google TV's home screen, they open their own apps unless you pick otherwise. There the gear (Settings) button, which opened Google TV's panel, opens TV Settings. On Xiaomi TVs whose remote has a Mi button instead of Home, that button opens Free My TV instead of PatchWall (or, if you pick it, PatchWall as before, or another app). On Xiaomi TVs, the YouTube button opens YouTube again (Google TV's home screen answered it), and the PatchWall button can open the app you pick. On Xiaomi's MiTV-AFKR0, the buttons marked Mi TV+, Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube can each open the app you pick (Mi TV+ keeps PatchWall until you do). On Xiaomi TVs sold in Russia, the same goes for the Okko, VK, Rutube, KION, Wink and IVI buttons, which keep Xiaomi's default until you pick another app. On Hisense TVs, the Prime Video, YouTube, Disney+, All Apps, Settings and profile buttons, which Google TV's home screen answered, open what you pick (All Apps opens Free My TV's own; Netflix stays with the TV). The Input button, which only Google TV's home screen answered there, opens Free My TV's inputs. On Chromecast with Google TV, the YouTube button opens YouTube again (Google TV's home screen answered it), or the app you pick; Netflix stays with Google. On the Google TV Streamer, the YouTube, Netflix and ★ buttons can each open the app you pick or Free My TV's All Apps: YouTube opens YouTube (Google TV's home screen answered it, and ★ too), and Netflix and ★ keep Google's default until you pick something, so ★ does nothing in Free My TV mode until then. On onn streamers, the YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+