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Remove it from your TV

Quick, and nothing on your TV is deleted. Your TV's own home comes straight back.

Set up with AI

  1. Step 1. Open the couch-tv folder in your agent and say this

    Take couch-tv off my TV
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    Use the folder it set up from. It follows the repo's own undo steps for your TV, stops the computer at home from opening couch-tv, and puts your TV's own home back.

With the Setup app

  1. Step 1. Open couch-tv Setup. Press Take couch-tv off a TV

    The Setup page buttons: Take couch-tv off a TV, and Start
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    It switches back on what it switched off, puts your TV's own home back, then removes the couch-tv apps. It works from any computer, because it wrote down what it changed on the TV too.

    Done with the app as well? Delete it, and its folder to forget everything: ~/Library/Application Support/couch-tv Setup/ on a Mac, %APPDATA%\couch-tv Setup\ on Windows.

Set up from your phone

  1. Step 1. In Couch TV, press Stop being the home screen

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    Only if you switched on Use as home screen. Otherwise go to step 2.

  2. Step 2. Settings, Apps, Couch TV, Uninstall

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    On Google TV it's under Apps, See all apps. Uninstalling also removes its phone pairings and its own debugging key. Delete the remote page from your phone's home screen too.

  3. Step 3. Press Home. Your TV's own home is back

With only the TV remote (Google TV and Android TV)
  1. On the couch-tv home, open the Settings tile (the gear at the end of the app row), or press your remote's Settings button. Pick TV settings.
  2. Apps, then See all apps, then Show system apps.
  3. If Google TV Home or Setup says Disabled (couch-tv 0.10 and older switched them off), open it and press Enable. Do this first.
  4. Back in Apps, open the couch-tv Home app and press Uninstall. Do the same for Couch TV if you have it.
  5. Press Home. Google TV is back.
Samsung, LG, Roku and other TVs with a computer at home
  1. Remove the Couch TV app or channel from the TV's app row, the way the TV removes any app.
  2. Switch the TV's Developer Mode off, if you switched it on.
  3. Take the TV out of config.json on the computer and restart the bridge.

Nothing else on the TV was changed. Each TV's exact steps are in its own guide on GitHub.

Switch Developer options off (optional)
  1. Settings, System, Developer options (Android TV 9 to 11: Settings, Device Preferences, Developer options).
  2. Press Revoke USB debugging authorisations. Every computer that was allowed in is forgotten.
  3. Switch off Network debugging or Wireless debugging, then USB debugging.
  4. Switch Developer options itself off at the top. The menu disappears.
Something stuck?

If the TV loops after a restart, forgot its Wi-Fi, or Home goes to a blank screen, the fixes are in the full guide. A factory reset is the very last resort: it deletes every app and login on the TV.

The full removal guide on GitHub, including the one minute way from a computer.