Ladrok TV

Android TV for the Raspberry Pi 5, built from Google’s open-source Android 17 with nothing added you don’t need. Write it to an SD card, pick your language, region and time zone with the remote, and watch.

• The whole system looks like the home screen: black and grey, a short Settings list, and a quiet clock when the TV rests.
• A sleep timer: the sleep key cycles Off, 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes from any app. A minute before the end you can cancel; then playback pauses and the TV goes to standby over HDMI-CEC.
• Updates in the background while you watch (A/B). If a new version fails to start, the previous one boots again.
• SELinux enforcing, everything signed with its own release keys.

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Two columns, the date and time, and the name of whatever has focus. Nothing else.

• Left: what you watched last, large. Press Home, then OK, to continue. Then Watch Next and the Channels you switch on.
• Right: your apps as a phone keypad. The digits 1–9 on the remote open them.
• Back jumps from your apps straight to what you watched last, and back again. One press, no scrolling.
• Long-press OK on a Tile to move it, or switch its Channels and Watch Next.
• Works with a pointer too, such as an air mouse: pointing focuses, a click opens, a long click opens the menu.

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A short list of TV apps picked by Ladrok, straight from their own releases.

• Installs and updates silently. Updates wait until the app is not in use, and can be switched off.
• Every APK is checked before it reaches the TV: package, TV launcher entry, ABI, signing certificate.
• A second screen, FOSS apps, for free and open-source software: apps whose code anyone can read, check and improve. They come from Awesome Android TV FOSS Apps, a list kept by the community, refreshed daily and put through the same checks. Ladrok has not tried them all.
• One search covers both lists.
• It is the only updater on the TV: it also keeps itself and the Launcher up to date.

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An Android app that pairs with the TV as a Bluetooth keyboard. The arrows and OK, Back and Home, playback and volume, the sleep timer, 1–9 for your apps, and typing for search boxes.

• Pointer: turn the phone to move a pointer on the TV. Tap to click, slide to scroll, hold still to drag. Switch it on to point without a thumb on the pad.
• The moon key sets the sleep timer.
• Android 12 or newer. It is the remote only while the app is open.
• Pair once in Settings › Remotes & Accessories; after that it reconnects by itself.

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