用户正利用 AI 让智能电视“重回非智能”：去广告、除臃肿、夺回控制权

AI 的最新用例是什么？让你的智能电视“变笨”，以摆脱各种臃肿软件。近来，许多开发者和“氛围程序员”（vibe coders）纷纷分享如何对电视进行“氛围编程”（vibe-coding），以此清除赞助广告、加快应用启动器速度、重新设计主屏幕、禁用追踪功能等。

其中一个名为“dumbtv”的解决方案在其 GitHub 页面 上阐明了自己的使命：“你的电视应该只做你付费想要的功能：运行你的应用、切换你的 HDMI 输入，仅此而已。电视本身不应有广告，没有观看行为追踪，也没有未经你允许的系统更新。”

另一个名为“cleanyourtv”的项目则承诺通过 Wi-Fi 清除任何 Android TV 或 Google TV 中的预装臃肿软件，并将原生桌面启动器替换为类似 Apple TV 风格的界面。

尽管通过破解消费电子设备来获取更多系统控制权算不上什么新鲜事，但 AI 技术的最新进展让此类尝试对任何人而言都变得触手可及。尤其是对于智能电视而言，这一波破解潮正值用户对被迫观看广告和设备监控其收视习惯感到极度厌烦之际。

现代智能电视通常搭载一种名为自动内容识别（ACR）的技术，该技术会利用截屏、音频片段或其他数字指纹识别方式来识别屏幕上正在播放的内容。

如果这些让电视“变回非智能”的破解方案在普通消费者中进一步普及，它们很有可能对智能电视广告行业造成颠覆性冲击——该行业很大程度上依赖将用户的收视数据出售给广告商，或利用这些数据在系统界面上投放个性化广告来获利。

正如 cleanyourtv 的创作者 Gathin T. 所言，清理智能电视界面的想法始于一个下午，当时他实在受不了父母家电视上层出不穷的广告。

“我让 Claude Code 通过 Wi-Fi 对其进行了清理，并构建了一个仅包含他们所用应用的简洁主屏幕。我把提示词放到了 GitHub 上，并在 Twitter 上发了修改前后的对比，结果接下来的两天里，数千人对自己的电视做了同样的操作。涉及品牌涵盖小米、TCL、索尼、Fire TV、LG，甚至还有一两台投影仪，”这位开发者在项目主页链接的赞助页面上写道。

该解决方案无需获取电视的 Root 权限，如果用户想恢复出厂默认设置，也完全可以轻松实现。

与此同时，dumbtv 方案已在 Fire TV Edition 电视以及来自索尼、TCL、飞利浦、海信、小米和 Shield 的 Android/Google TV 平台上完成了端到端测试。该项目的开发者 Muzzammil Yasin Sabuwala 建议，用户只需将自己首选的 AI Agent 指向 GitHub 上的 dumbtv 仓库即可使用该方案。

Sabuwala 表示，他开发 dumbtv 的动力同样来自于对广告的厌倦，以及无法直接进入自己想看的内容。他告诉 TechCrunch，自己的解决方案是用 Deepseek V4.1 Flash、Claude Opus 5.5 和 Claude Sonnet 5.5 协同编写的，他计划继续维护该 GitHub 仓库，并随着时间推移增加对更多模型和设备的支持。

友情提示：所有这些解决方案目前都仍处于开发阶段，各路用户正在不同的电视平台上进行测试，并提出更新与修复建议。

不过，普通用户其实也不一定非要借助 GitHub 上现成的项目来完成这项任务。

在一条近期走红的 X 帖子中，Ryan Doyle 解释称，他只是将自己电视的型号信息发送给 Claude Code，并询问“你能搞定这个吗？”。他表示，随后 AI Agent 一步步指导他完成了整个过程，帮他成功移除了电视上的广告和臃肿软件，加速了卡顿的 UI 界面，还自定义了屏幕保护程序。

随后，Doyle 在一段视频中演示了在 AI 完成所请求的修改后，新界面是多么流畅且响应迅速。

看到关于人们“用氛围编程改装电视”的帖子，另一位 X 用户 Mihir Gupta 也受到启发并亲自尝试。

“花了一个下午与 Claude Code 合作：禁用了 25 个臃肿应用，将 192 MB 的原生启动器替换为自定义的 83 MB 启动器，外加自动轮播壁纸，”他写道。

然而，这些改装尝试的结果可能参差不齐。有人发现，面对简单的“帮我搞定电视”这样的指令，Claude 有时并不会配合响应，往往需要更复杂的 Prompt。还有人提醒，AI Agent 可能会出错，在此过程中有可能误禁用重要组件或搞坏系统功能。甚至有人表示他们用 Claude 把自己的 Android TV 给刷成了砖，还有人在改装 Fire TV 时卡在了一半进退两难。

对于那些对使用 AI 完全改造电视持谨慎态度的用户，目前市面上也存在针对基于 Android 的智能电视的成熟自定义方案，例如替代原生主屏幕的应用 ATV Launcher、Projectivy Launcher 和 FLauncher。

The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more.

One such solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on its GitHub page thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No ads from the TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.”

Another, “cleanyourtv,” promises to strip the bloatware from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi, to replace the launcher with one that resembles Apple TV.

While hacking consumer electronics devices to gain more control over their systems is hardly a new idea, the latest advances in AI technology have made such efforts much more accessible to anyone. With smart TVs in particular, the hacks come at a time when people have grown frustrated with being forced to watch ads and put up with their devices surveilling their viewing habits.

Modern smart TVs ship with a technology called automatic content recognition (ACR), which identifies what’s playing on the screen using screenshots, audio clips, or other forms of digital fingerprinting.

If these “dumb TV” hacks become more popular among everyday consumers, they have the potential to disrupt the smart TV ad industry, which profits from selling viewing data to advertisers or using it to display personalized ads on their own interfaces.

As the creator of cleanyourtv, Gathin T., puts it, the idea to clean up the smart TV interface started one afternoon when he got tired of seeing the ads on his parents’ TV set.

“I had Claude Code clean it up over Wi-Fi and build a simple home screen with just their apps on it. I put the prompt on GitHub, tweeted the before and after, and a few thousand people did the same to their own TVs over the next two days. Xiaomi, TCL, Sony, Fire TV, LG, a projector or two,” the developer wrote on a website for donations, linked from the project’s homepage.

The solution doesn’t require gaining root access to the TV, nor does it make it impossible to return to the factory default state, if desired.

Meanwhile, the dumbtv solution has been tested end-to-end on a Fire TV Edition television set and Android/Google TV platforms on TVs from Sony, TCL, Philips, Hisense, Xiaomi, and Shield. To use this hack, the developer, Muzzammil Yasin Sabuwala, suggests pointing your preferred AI agent at the dumbtv repository on GitHub.

Sabuwala said he was motivated to work on dumbtv because he was tired of the ads and not being able to delve directly into the content he wanted to watch. His solution was coded using a combination of Deepseek V4.1 Flash, Claude Opus 5.5, and Claude Sonnet 5.5, he told TechCrunch, and he plans to maintain the GitHub, adding support for more models over time.

Fair warning: All these solutions are works in progress, and various users are now testing them across different TV platforms and suggesting updates and fixes.

However, individuals don’t need to borrow someone else’s work from GitHub to get the job done.

In one newly viral X post, Ryan Doyle explains that he simply sent Claude Code the listing for his TV and asked “Can you hack this?” The agent then talked him through the process, allowing him to remove the ads and bloatware from the TV set, speed up the lagging user interface, and customize his screensaver, he claims.

Doyle then goes on to demonstrate in a video how fast and responsive the new interface is after the AI made the requested changes.

Seeing posts about people “vibe-coding their TVs,” inspired one X user, Mihir Gupta, to try it himself.

“One afternoon with Claude Code: 25 bloat apps disabled, the 192 MB stock launcher replaced with a custom 83 MB one, plus rotating wallpapers,” he wrote.

The end result of these hacks may be mixed, however. Some people have found that Claude wouldn’t respond to their simple suggestions to “hack my TV,” necessitating more complex prompts. Others warned that AI agents could make mistakes, possibly disabling important packages or breaking things in the process. One person even said they bricked their Android TV using Claude, and another got stuck halfway through hacking their Fire TV.

For those wary of using AI to fully hack their TVs, there are existing solutions for customizing Android-based smart TVs, such as home screen replacement apps ATV Launcher, Projectivy Launcher, and FLauncher.