Dev hacks his TV with an AI agent: custom launcher that monitors his homelab
banteg · x · 2026-10-23
Engineer banteg joined the 'hack your TV' trend, using AI agents (neither Codex nor Claude refused anything) to replace the stock TV launcher with a custom one that also shows his homelab server status — 34 services healthy, with Reth and Lighthouse down in the screenshot.
After seeing inside the system, the agent's first suggestion: 'disconnecting it from wifi will ultimately provide a stronger privacy boundary than package cleanup alone.' He calls it bunker mode.
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