Real AI agent use cases, with sources and setup prompts
Short answer: Put the TV and the computer running your agent on the same Wi-Fi, then let the agent talk to the TV's built-in remote-control connection: ADB for Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV, the local remote API for Samsung and LG, and Roku's External Control Protocol. Ask the agent to wrap those commands in a few tools (open app, move, select, power off) and connect them to your chat or voice assistant. Approve the pairing prompt on the TV once.
Real setups where an AI agent opens Netflix, plays videos, shows dashboards and switches the TV off, using the same local remote-control connection your phone's remote app uses. 24 matching use cases below, each with a public source.
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A builder making his own JARVIS had Grok write the code for an MCP server on his TV, so Grok Bot can read the screen and drive it like he would. Next he plans a Raspberry Pi that runs the whole house.
With the TV and laptop on the same Wi-Fi, paste the prompt into Claude Code with a photo of the TV's Settings > About screen. Opus finds the local remote-control API phone remote apps use, writes a tiny remote with three tools (open Netflix, move, select) and plugs it into Grok Bot as a plugin; press Allow on the TV once.
A user connected his Hermes agent to his Hisense Roku TV and asked for three Hermes Agent videos and two Omarchy videos. It found them, played each one and left the last one running.
After cleaning his Chromecast, Grok Bot built a small TV app so the family sleep-sound video always starts from the beginning, then sends the Roku remote's button presses over Wi-Fi to switch the screen off.
Instead of copying Apple TV, he had Claude Code turn his TV into a dashboard showing Claude usage across 3 accounts, live workflows and agents, GitHub and his calendar. It pops up a notice over whatever he's watching when a workflow finishes.
A non-coder's Home Tech Grok Bot shows a TV banner when the Tesla is almost home, built a family home screen on Chromecast, and switches the PC to console mode when a controller turns on.
After an unwanted webOS update, a dad spent a couple of weekends having four different models write new TV software, using WebRTC to cut latency; all the code was written by the models.
A builder had Claude Code inspect the Android TV box from his TV provider from a prompt and one photo, install a Linux shell built for its chip, add a wake lock and battery whitelist so Android cannot kill the agent, and wire the agent to his own Telegram bot with no open ports.
After seeing people clean adware off TVs with agents, he handed the same instructions to Grok Bot, which ran them on his Fire TV.
He used Claude Code and VS Code to work on his Samsung TV running Tizen, which does not support the usual Android TV adb method.
He installed a terminal app that connects to his Mac on his Samsung Frame TV running Tizen, and says it's now easy to build apps for these TVs.
FourVork posted steps for stopping a TV from spying without getting an account banned: use a less restricted model such as GLM 5.3 or an abliterated Qwen through OpenRouter or Venice, make sure the TV and computer are on the same network, then install a coding agent to do the work.
TNFLManDad used the open-source cleanyourtv project over ADB, a debugging connection, to clean up his TCL 65Q750G Google TV. He then had Grok Bot add a few more privacy settings to stop TCL and Google from tracking his household.
Tired of sponsored rows on his TCL Google TV, he vibe-coded his own launcher with Claude Code and set the TV to boot straight into it.
After the Android TV guides, his team published an interactive guide for using Claude Code to remove unwanted apps from an Android phone, check background activity, block ads with Private DNS and undo any change.
TechCrunch rounded up the trend: people point Claude Code or another agent at open-source repos like dumbtv and cleanyourtv to remove sponsored rows, ACR viewing trackers and bloat from Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV sets, often swapping in a cleaner launcher.
He built a SuperDisplay alternative for macOS that makes his Samsung tablet work as a secondary display, plus a specialized video streaming host and client and an Android TV app to cast it.
A developer gave his agent the TV's model number. It found the TV on Wi-Fi, removed 69 packages and replaced the launcher with a terminal.
After a popular thread on trying to hack his Samsung TV, he explains Tizen is Linux-based but not Android, so there is no adb, and rooting means bricking and warranty risks. Instead he removed ads by setting AdGuard DNS (94.140.14.14) in the TV settings.
An update to dumbtv adds blocking of YouTube ads and Shorts on Android-based TVs. The builder made the community support video with Claude Opus 5.5 and merged fixes from contributors.
A user wrote a prompt that turns Claude Opus 5.5 into a TV customization agent. You send one photo of your TV; it identifies the system, finds the developer tools it supports and generates the commands to clean up and customize it.
He found TizenTube Cobalt, an open-source app that looks like official YouTube TV but has no ads and skips sponsor segments with SponsorBlock, and says you can just tell Claude to set it up.
His TV showed an ad before he could even open Netflix, so he let Claude Code talk to it from his Mac. One evening later the ads and sponsored rows were gone, and every change can be reversed. He published a step-by-step guide plus the mistakes that cost him an hour.
He replaced the stock Android TV launcher with one he vibe-coded with Claude.
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