R2D2 for webOS - Local home screen, private browser, and voice assistant for smart TVs
Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart
R2D2 for webOS reclaims your smart TV by turning it into a privacy-first, locally controlled display. A Linux compute host runs Chromium and local voice models, streaming everything over your LAN, while the TV simply shows the picture and sends remote input back. You get a custom local home screen, a sandboxed private browser with content-blocking rules, and push-to-talk voice commands—all processed on your own hardware instead of the cloud. It targets rooted webOS TVs on one specific firmware build, so expect a hands-on, warranty-voiding adventure. Source, offline tests, and a demo video are on GitHub.
A local home screen, private remote browser, and push-to-talk voice assistant for webOS TVs—the TV provides the display, while a Linux compute host does the thinking.
- jelder
All I really want my TV to do is turn on, quickly and reliably, and display whatever is plugged into HDMI1. The market is flooded with “Smart” (actually Surveillance) TVs so not buying one isn’t really practical.
- a1o
Curious about Netflix, does it limit the resolution because it is not an “official” app or something like this?
Also, it says you have to have system root of the tv, how does one get root access to the LG TV?
- pcardoso
Found this a few days ago as well.