ToomRamcharan/tv-vibehack
Reverse-engineer any Android TV / Google TV: 100% fail-safe direct boot launcher, remote hotkey remapping, Realtek hardware passthrough & offline media player.
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-green.svg) [](LICENSE) [](#) [](#the-100-fail-safe-architecture) Modern Smart TVs ship with: tv-vibehack solves this permanently. Originally built to give aging parents a distraction-free, one-touch TV experience, it provides a universal blueprint for taking back control of any Android TV without root. On Android 14 Google TV, disabling the stock launcher (com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx) breaks Direct Boot, tripping Android's RescueParty service and bricking the TV into a black-screen recovery state. tv-vibehack never disables launcherx. Instead: No more opening 4 nested TV menus just to watch cable. Through reverse-engineered Realtek RTD TvContract passthrough URIs, the launcher switches directly to HDMI inputs programmatically: HomeKeyService intercepts hardcoded hardware remote buttons (KEYCODEBUTTON3 for Netflix, KEYCODEBUTTON4 for Prime Video, KEYCODEPROGRED/GREEN) and redirects them straight to HDMI 2 / Set-Top Box in <150ms without root. Many families have legacy home videos or recordings stored on USB drives encoded in older formats (e.g., DVD MPEG-2) that native modern Smart TV chipsets cannot…
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- tv-vibehack 📺✨
- 📐 Architecture & Transformation Overview
- 🎯 The Motivation
- ⚡ What Makes This Different?
- 1. 🛡️ The 100% Fail-Safe Architecture (Zero Bootloops)
- 2. 🔀 Hardware Passthrough (Direct HDMI Switching)
- 3. 🎮 Sponsored Remote Key Remapping (No Root)
- 4. 🎞️ Offline TV Media Vault & Legacy Transcoding
- How to Add Your Own Media:
- 🚀 Quick Start
- 1. Enable ADB on your Android TV
- 2. Connect via ADB
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Reverse-engineer any Android TV / Google TV: 100% fail-safe direct boot launcher, remote hotkey remapping, Realtek hardware passthrough & offline media player.
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- Owner
- ToomRamcharan
- Primary language
- Java
- Stars
- 318
- Forks
- 27
- Open issues + pull requests
- 10
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-19T11:29:37.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-19T11:55:25.000Z
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