README

Free My TV

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.

freemytv.io · Install · LG TVs · Samsung TVs · Any TV · Make it yours





 What you get

- 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.
- 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.
- 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 com

Top issues

Latest release

Free My TV 1.3: the APK now updates itself, your TMDB key goes from your phone to the TV, the picks get posters and your own Plex library, Continue Watching can take the top of the home screen, and more TVs on every platform.

Install
- Google TV and Android TV: download FreeMyTV.apk below and install it with adb install -r FreeMyTV.apk (the README's The ready APK has the steps). It updates the 1.2 APK in place, settings included, and from now on Home Settings → Updates installs the next release, with Android asking first. For the movie and series picks, open Home Settings → TMDB key. If you b