Image: reddit.com · Since TV debloating seems popular, here's mine: an open-source replacement homescreen + debloater for Fire TV (no root required)
An ad-free replacement home screen and debloater for Fire TV
Claude wrote Homestead, a Fire TV home screen without banners or trailers that can also disable Amazon ad and telemetry packages, no root needed.
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Homestead is an app Claude developed, including testing by controlling the TV, and has run on the maker's own TV for about a month. It replaces the home screen with just inputs and apps, dropping the sponsored banner, autoplaying trailers and promoted rows, and can switch off a pile of Amazon ad and telemetry packages.
Fire OS will not let an app become the default home screen, so Homestead opens itself when Home is pressed. The catch is that Amazon's screen can flash briefly first. Setup is more involved than a normal app, and the maker warns it is probably not very polished.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Since TV debloating seems popular, here's mine: an open-source replacement homescreen + debloater foReddit poster: Sarg338Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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- The code: github.comRepository account: Sarg338
The project on GitHub.