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A spare Linux laptop turned into a phone-controlled TV
A spare Linux laptop on HDMI became a TV controlled from a phone web page, built with Claude Code, which can also put pages on the screen itself.
Credits
- Reddit poster cjmurrr Source ↗
- Repository account chrismurrph Source ↗
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The full story
tvremote turns a spare Linux laptop plugged into a TV over HDMI into something like a smart TV, with the maker's phone as the remote. The laptop runs a small web server and its own Chrome; a remote page on the phone plays Netflix and YouTube, scrolls web pages and changes text size from the couch.
It was built with Claude Code, which can also put a page on the TV itself so the maker can read from the couch rather than at a desk. The project is open source.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: tvremote: my phone as the remote control for a TV, where the TV is really a spare Linux laptop on HDReddit poster: cjmurrrPosted
The maker's comment on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: tvremote: my phone as the remote control for a TV, where the TV is really a spare Linux laptop on HD (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: chrismurrph
The project on GitHub.