TV cleanups people ran with Claude Code and Grok Bot over Wi-Fi: ad rows gone, junk apps disabled, a faster home screen, and what does not work on Samsung, LG and Roku. 7 matching use cases below, each with a public source.
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.
$17/moAn eveningBeginner
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.
$17/mo2-3 hoursAdvanced
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.
$30/mo1 dayIntermediate
His TV had become unbearably slow, so he spent an afternoon with Claude Code connected to it. It disabled 25 preinstalled bloat apps, replaced the 192 MB stock launcher with a custom 83 MB one and added rotating wallpapers.
$17/moAn afternoonBeginner
A user's parents had an old Android TV that was slow and full of ads. Claude cleaned it up and built them a new home screen from scratch; he shared the exact steps and the prompt to do it on your own TV.
See pricing page1 hourIntermediate
Most TV cleanup guides only cover Android TV, but with Claude's help and some trial and error he customized his Samsung TV running Tizen. He also used AI to blur device details in his photos before sharing.
See pricing page1 afternoonIntermediate
He used Claude Code and the open TV cleanup scripts to back up his package list, disable ad and telemetry apps with pm disable-user and install a small launcher made for TVs with 1 GB of RAM. Nothing is rooted or uninstalled.
$17/mo15 minutesBeginner