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The tinfoil hatters may be the real MVPs.

I foresee origami practice with aluminium foil over known radio-containing parts in my future.

Regarding Smart TV's, is there an OpenWRT-like project for TVs yet?

I have also been looking for "custom firmwares" or "roms" for TVs. Sadly to no fruitful success.

As I understand it. Nobody bothers since there are som many different versions of TVs ( even same model different region) that hacking and developing new os would just never catch up. So instead people opt out of smart TVs and instead buy "digital signage screens" basically a dum TV....

Maybe we need an Open LCD panel controller board.

Install the firmware with specs as per TV panel. Swap out the control board altogether.

TVs are very similar to Android phones (in fact some of them do run Android) and so have the same challenges when it comes to creating and maintaining alternative firmware.

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