{"id":282097,"date":"2026-06-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:25:39","slug":"make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Make That Smart TV Into A Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/06\/25\/make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer\/\">Make That Smart TV Into A Computer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/06\/25\/make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/06\/25\/make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 01:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"hackaday.com\">hackaday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smart TV is a fixture in most houses, variously an entertainment portal, corporate data gathering tool, or sometimes an outright spy. It\u2019s a nice monitor with a computer built in, so can that computer be released to do something else? It\u2019s a question [Xen\u2019on] is answering, on an Android-based TV.<\/p>\n<p>The guide is not too different from many others relating to Android phones, with a few quirks. An Android Debug Bridge (ADB) connection is established, root access is gained using Shizuku, and then it\u2019s a case of installing a more conventional Linux front end with the Openbox window manager through Termux. There are some TV-specific things to do with handling power cycles, but the TV is now a usable Linux box.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always good to see someone retrieve the Linux underneath a locked-down device, but the system spec tells the real story. By the looks of things this TV is a few years old as it had an Android version that\u2019s a bit long in the tooth, and thus it also packs an aged version 4.x kernel. Couple that with a more seat-of-your-pants experience compared to a regular distro where many of the annoyances are taken care of, this isn\u2019t an easy route to a trouble free desktop. Instead it has a lot of potential for making the TV what it was intend to be, an entertainment device. Merely one that gives much more software freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this isn\u2019t the first Termux guide we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/06\/25\/make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make That Smart TV Into A Computer https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/06\/25\/make-that-smart-tv-into-a-computer\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-26 01:00:00 Source Domain: hackaday.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LinuxMarketing.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-282097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282099,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282097\/revisions\/282099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}