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Ho collegato Claude Code alla mia vecchia Android TV: ecco cosa è successo — Transcript

by Simone Rizzo · 1,760 words · 289 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:01This is a different kind of video
  2. 0:03because it's a real experiment.
  3. 0:06In the last few days, we've seen how AI
  4. 0:08has been used for various hacker attacks
  5. 0:11; we've seen AI used to reverse engineer
  6. 0:14many applications, they've remade
  7. 0:17AutoCAD, the Office suite, the Adobe
  8. 0:19suite, but at the same time, many users
  9. 0:22are using AI to, let's say, attack
  10. 0:25physical devices, devices like old MP3
  11. 0:28players that didn't work, optimizing
  12. 0:30them and getting them running again.
  13. 0:35They are using AI to connect it to
  14. 0:37things like smart bracelets, Whoop, etc.
  15. 0:39, to create applications for them.
  16. 0:43And above all, in recent days, there is
  17. 0:46news of users connecting Claude Code to
  18. 0:49Android TVs, those famous Android TVs
  19. 0:52that are extremely slow, full of ads,
  20. 0:55full of useless animations, with all
  21. 0:57these background services tracking you,
  22. 1:00to crack, unlock, and optimize them,
  23. 1:03remove all these useless applications,
  24. 1:06clean up the Android TV, and bring it
  25. 1:09back to life,
  26. 1:12making it useful again, fast, quick to
  27. 1:15turn on, to start applications; and the
  28. 1:17best part is that you can customize it
  29. 1:20however you want.
  30. 1:23When I saw these posts and videos, I
  31. 1:26said, "No, I have an old TV and I want
  32. 1:29to try it, and maybe I can make content
  33. 1:32where I experiment with you, using
  34. 1:34Claude Code on a slow Android TV."
  35. 1:38So, let's start the experiment.
  36. 1:41To unlock the television, I will use
  37. 1:43this repository on GitHub called TV
  38. 1:45Detox.
  39. 1:47There are really many of these coming
  40. 1:50out, and it's nothing more than a
  41. 1:52repository that does a kind of reverse
  42. 1:55engineering of your old Android TV to
  43. 1:58make it faster, leaner, removing all the
  44. 2:01ads and improving the launcher.
  45. 2:05Let's try it on this Android TV with
  46. 2:08these launchers that are full of ads and
  47. 2:11super slow.
  48. 2:14First of all, you need to go to settings
  49. 2:16.
  50. 2:17General settings.
  51. 2:20Then go to system information.
  52. 2:26We need to go to the Android TV OS build
  53. 2:29section and press seven times.
  54. 2:311 2 3 4 5 6 7.
  55. 2:36Now we have enabled developer features.
  56. 2:42Now, going back, you will see that the
  57. 2:45developer setting is available, and here
  58. 2:48you need to enable USB debugging.
  59. 2:55Okay, by enabling this setting, we can
  60. 2:57let our coding agent control the
  61. 2:59television.
  62. 3:02Now the last thing left is to go to the
  63. 3:04Wi-Fi settings.
  64. 3:07And go see what the IP address is within
  65. 3:10your network.
  66. 3:12Write it down because it will then be
  67. 3:14used by Claude.
  68. 3:16Now, quite simply, take your coding
  69. 3:18agent.
  70. 3:19I will use Claude Code. It must be on
  71. 3:22the same Wi-Fi network as the television
  72. 3:24.
  73. 3:25Let's copy this prompt.
  74. 3:28Let's paste it. What's in this prompt?
  75. 3:31It contains a description of everything
  76. 3:33it needs to do.
  77. 3:35It has the GitHub repository for the
  78. 3:38project in question, and lists things it
  79. 3:40must not do.
  80. 3:42For example, google.apps.
  81. 3:45apps.tvlauncher, never turn off Google
  82. 3:47Play Services, basically some warnings.
  83. 3:51And here in this part, "my TV is a" and
  84. 3:53we put the brand name of the television
  85. 3:56. So we copy this entire prompt and
  86. 3:58paste it.
  87. 4:01My TV is a Xiaomi, and then at the very
  88. 4:04bottom I have to tell it what the IP
  89. 4:06address is on my local network, the one
  90. 4:08we saw earlier in the Wi-Fi settings.
  91. 4:12So my IP
  92. 4:15is 192.168.1.121.
  93. 4:21And now we press enter and let our
  94. 4:24coding agent run, first of all searching
  95. 4:26the local network to see if it finds the
  96. 4:29TV.
  97. 4:32Then, finding the TV, thanks to the fact
  98. 4:35that we enabled developer settings, it
  99. 4:38will be able to get inside and enable
  100. 4:41the debugging tools.
  101. 4:44Do you understand that doing this could
  102. 4:47involve risks? Yes, I know. Go ahead.
  103. 4:51When this pops up on your television,
  104. 4:53it's a good sign because it means Cloud
  105. 4:56Code has identified it and is trying to
  106. 4:58get inside to modify it.
  107. 5:00Click "Allow."
  108. 5:02Oh, and look at this beauty. Xiaomi
  109. 5:05tracking and promos. Which ones do you
  110. 5:07want to turn off?
  111. 5:09Everything. Xiaomi user tracking. Why do
  112. 5:12they have to do analytics tracking to
  113. 5:14send to the Chinese? Get rid of it, out
  114. 5:15.
  115. 5:16Mi TV Plus, Xiaomi free streaming
  116. 5:18channels, out.
  117. 5:20Xiaomi promo channels, out, gone.
  118. 5:23On-screen manual, this one too. Away,
  119. 5:24now we’re cleaning everything. We’re
  120. 5:26going to make this TV run super fast.
  121. 5:28Extra. Which one do you want to turn off
  122. 5:30? Xiaomi Gallery. What do I need that
  123. 5:31for? Xiaomi Music, gone.
  124. 5:33Play Games. Ah, I can keep Play Games.
  125. 5:36Feedback, printing, out.
  126. 5:39Then preinstalled apps you might not use
  127. 5:41and want to turn off. So, I'll keep
  128. 5:44Netflix, I'll keep Prime Video, YouTube
  129. 5:46Music away, out, Patchwall Xiaomi Tab,
  130. 5:49away, out, I don't use it.
  131. 5:52Any other app you want to turn off?
  132. 5:55I'll keep YouTube. Xiaomi USB media app
  133. 5:58.
  134. 5:59I could keep that. I don't know what
  135. 6:01this other one is. Away, out.
  136. 6:03Send. Clean everything. Let's do a
  137. 6:05global cleanup.
  138. 6:08Which applications would you like in the
  139. 6:10first row when you open the Home Screen
  140. 6:12, in order?
  141. 6:13Here it says suggested list.
  142. 6:15YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney
  143. 6:17Plus, RaiPlay, Mediaset Infinity,
  144. 6:19Jellyfin, or let the app decide.
  145. 6:24I want YouTube, Netflix, for example,
  146. 6:26and I can tell it which apps I want.
  147. 6:29YouTube, Netflix,
  148. 6:34Spotify,
  149. 6:38Prime Video,
  150. 6:41and RaiPlay, for example, and that's it
  151. 6:44.
  152. 6:46Install TV Detox Home Screen.
  153. 6:49Then we can also adjust all the
  154. 6:51animations, we can customize it, we can
  155. 6:53do everything and more.
  156. 6:55It is spectacular to connect a coding
  157. 6:58agent to a device, it allows you to do
  158. 7:00practically all these optimizations.
  159. 7:03So, let's see how it practically rewrote
  160. 7:06the home design for me.
  161. 7:09And now it asks me what would you prefer
  162. 7:11to do? Show it to me on the TV, activate
  163. 7:13it with the home button.
  164. 7:15A design all my own. Let's talk about
  165. 7:17how to make a home with a custom design
  166. 7:19, a separate project. So I can also
  167. 7:21change this design here. I can add other
  168. 7:23things.
  169. 7:24Now I tell it to activate the home
  170. 7:26button, or rather I say show it to me on
  171. 7:28the TV so we can see it.
  172. 7:31And here is our new Home, super
  173. 7:32minimalist, super fast, fluid, without
  174. 7:34useless animations, without advertising
  175. 7:36.
  176. 7:37Beautiful.
  177. 7:39Let's see if I can manage to get it to
  178. 7:41put the weather and temperature of
  179. 7:42Madrid here now.
  180. 7:45Add the weather and temperature for
  181. 7:48Madrid next to the time,
  182. 7:53let's see if it does it.
  183. 7:54And here is the weather I had added to
  184. 7:56the home.
  185. 7:58It made it small here on the left, I
  186. 7:59could have told it to take up more space
  187. 8:01, but it placed it nicely.
  188. 8:03Madrid 13 ° cloudy.
  189. 8:06And now I'll have some fun and have it
  190. 8:08also add the stock market trends for
  191. 8:09Apple, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, All World
  192. 8:11, Vanguard, Semiconductors, WVSM to the
  193. 8:13home.
  194. 8:16Let's make a spectacular, minimal,
  195. 8:18useful, and fast homepage.
  196. 8:21And here is my new Home, beautiful. We
  197. 8:24have all the stocks I asked for. Apple
  198. 8:26is the only one in the green. Google,
  199. 8:28Nvidia, SpaceX, All World,
  200. 8:29semiconductors are all in the red.
  201. 8:32I could add others, I could do anything
  202. 8:34, a widget, and it's truly beautiful to
  203. 8:36be able to customize the television
  204. 8:38however you want, making it much faster
  205. 8:40.
  206. 8:41All applications work, everything works
  207. 8:44.
  208. 8:45It really, really is a blast.
  209. 8:48Let's open RaiPlay.
  210. 8:51What can I say? It did a really
  211. 8:53excellent job.
  212. 8:54We can also add more complex widgets, we
  213. 8:56can add animations, we can practically
  214. 8:59do everything with our television and it
  215. 9:01is really simple to use because it does
  216. 9:04everything with cloud code.
  217. 9:07Once the TV settings are set just right
  218. 9:09, with the developer flags enabled, then
  219. 9:11the TV takes care of the rest.
  220. 9:15Actually, if we wanted, we could have
  221. 9:16drawn a design on paper, uploaded the
  222. 9:18photo, and told it exactly what to put.
  223. 9:21Maybe under here, Thursday, October 29th
  224. 9:23, by the time I could have also put the
  225. 9:25trends of my YouTube channel. I mean,
  226. 9:27it's beautiful to be able to do
  227. 9:28something like this. I would say the
  228. 9:30experiment was more than successful.
  229. 9:33In this case, we used AI for a
  230. 9:35benevolent purpose; we didn't hack or
  231. 9:38crack anything because the Android TV
  232. 9:40settings themselves allow you to develop
  233. 9:43and do these things.
  234. 9:46So we simply connected our coding agent
  235. 9:48that went and optimized everything. And
  236. 9:50why is it used in a benevolent way?
  237. 9:52Because, above all, it gets rid of all
  238. 9:55the advertising and all the tracking
  239. 9:57applications.
  240. 9:59Because many TVs, you don't know it,
  241. 10:01have microphones, they have cameras,
  242. 10:03they record you, they know when you're
  243. 10:05home, when you're not home, if you have
  244. 10:07young children, if you have dogs; I mean
  245. 10:10, all of this, this mass surveillance
  246. 10:12with all these background programs,
  247. 10:14thanks to AI you can remove them, you
  248. 10:16can track them down, you can delete them
  249. 10:18entirely and you can make your
  250. 10:20television clean.
  251. 10:23In theory, actually, using AI could
  252. 10:25allow us to remove what is the planned
  253. 10:27obsolescence that exists in many devices
  254. 10:29.
  255. 10:31Because AI can go in and modify the code
  256. 10:33, maintain it, improve it over time,
  257. 10:35optimize it, and make it faster.
  258. 10:39Because these TVs, Android TVs here, are
  259. 10:42designed on purpose to be filled with
  260. 10:44junk and slowed down, both Android TVs
  261. 10:47and many other devices, but also
  262. 10:49Firesticks, Fire TVs are the same thing
  263. 10:52.
  264. 10:54You just need a moment to check if there
  265. 10:56is an already prepared repository or ask
  266. 10:59Cloud Code Codex directly if there is a
  267. 11:01way to connect to it, a way to, let's
  268. 11:03say, optimize and modify it.
  269. 11:06So AI always has two sides to the coin.
  270. 11:11AI used poorly for hacker attacks, AI
  271. 11:13used well to optimize software or remove
  272. 11:16all those tracking parts.
  273. 11:20And so today this was an experiment, in
  274. 11:22my opinion, very, very fun. I didn't
  275. 11:25have, well, expectations, I knew it
  276. 11:27would work, but until you try it on your
  277. 11:29TV you don't know.
  278. 11:31You also get that little thrill of "
  279. 11:33Okay, now it's going to break it,
  280. 11:34nothing will work anymore." But instead
  281. 11:36no, everything worked very, very well
  282. 11:38and that's it. I hope you enjoyed this
  283. 11:40video. Write a comment below telling me
  284. 11:42your thoughts and just think about how
  285. 11:44many devices you have at home that you
  286. 11:47could optimize with artificial
  287. 11:49intelligence. Follow me to stay updated
  288. 11:51on the next video and see you soon. Bye
  289. 11:53.

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