"You guys connect your TV to the internet?"
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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Yes, you'll pry my native jellyfin client from my cold dead hands. Also my rooted lg now has an awesome screensaver with hd nature footage that I love.
Oh you can root The LG TVs?
Can you tell me more?
Not really. I did mine years ago using the rootmy.tv site.
The biggest benefit is hyperion lighting. I have an esp32 plugged into the USB port on the back, driving leds that match the color of my content. https://github.com/TBSniller/piccap
It doesn't work on HDCP, but I only use the jellyfin app and hdmi input for my pc, both of which are great.
There's also a really good screensaver https://repo.webosbrew.org/apps/org.aabytt.webos.custom-screensaver-aerial/
Oh yeah this is all via webosbrew which is a homebrew app manager you install once rooted.
There's also a util that let's you rebind buttons on your remote which is handy
Absolutely legendary help.
Thank you.
I have a very old LG tv that has some decent screen burn now. I was hesitant to get another one because of the OS and advertising but this has locked me in.
Lol what's happening to reddit, their text is all sloped
It's that particular subreddit's CSS, made to match its name
Well that's mildly infuriating...
AI slope
I rooted my LG C1, enabled SSH, and permanently blocked updates over a year ago. I'm so happy with that decision.
Anything else you can do with it being rooted?
You can sideload a modified version of YouTube that blocks ads and skips ads inside videos too (or intros, or interaction reminders, etc). You can use custom screensavers. You can remap buttons on the remote. You can install RetroArch. You can install Kodi.
Basically you get a Homebrew Channel that supports downloading custom apps from any repo, and it bypasses the developer certificate so the apps just work forever, you don't have to keep resigning them.
Do DRM'd streaming services continue working as normal?
So no more LG televisions anymore then
My LG OLED panel is awesome. Beautiful TV.
I just don’t let it connect to the internet. 🤣
That doesn’t fix the larger problem of these things turning ever more into surveillance devices
That's by design for that sub
So copilot works on Linux now? That's what I remember WebOS being at least
It is but so is Android so Linux support is nothing new.