Honestly i got rid of all ads long time ago, but just recently saw how many of them there is.

Aound 2019 i got tired of ads everywhere and started to look in to blocking them on the network level and behold pihole is to save you. And only service that i wasn't able to filter ads is youtube, because they stream adds from same domains as normal content. Maybe there's workaround now but i have cheap youtube premium (~2€/month) so i dont care.

Few weeks ago one of my services started crashing or not loading properly and i played around with the pihole blocking settings and after disabling dns bloking i saw how many adds there is on the scrren e.g. picture one. I found the domains that was causing the issue and whitelisted them. So it's way easier to block adds for your network insted doing stuff in the tv itself, picture two.

Tl:dr: just use pihole

As you can see in the screenshot I'm on a bit older TV and firmware. When I want to install the Amazon Prime Video app for example the LG store tells me I will need to update firmware first. This isn't an issue with some other store apps at least and those install fine. I've been running the LG update blocker from the homebrew store before but that completely blocked the ability to install any store app so I'm not using that anymore (for now at least).

Now from what I've seen, there's no option to sideload LG store apps. And I guess in this case it wouldn't work either as I guess the app demands a minimum firmware version. Also saw no way to update the firmware while keeping the TV rooted.

So what are my options here? Is there a way to update firmware or sideload apps that I'm not aware of? Or do I have no choice than go without certain apps?

I’ve had my 2024 LG TV (75QNED86T6A) for a while now, and I finally decided to upgrade my connection to use Moonlight with higher bandwidth. I bought the TP-Link UE300 since it’s the "gold standard" for these TVs. When I plugged it in, I saw the lights flashing on my router, but the TV just wouldn't recognize it.

Since it wasn't working, I SSH'ed into the TV and checked the loaded modules—there was absolutely nothing there for the Realtek chipset.

I went to https://opensource.lge.com/, downloaded the kernel source for my model (Paparoa / K25lp SoC), and found that LG had explicitly disabled the CONFIG_USB_RTL8152 and CONFIG_USB_RTL8153 modules in the kernel config for webOS 24. It wasn't an accident; they removed support on purpose.

So, I set up a cross-compilation environment and built the missing r8152.ko module myself.

The result? I’m now getting 300+ Mbps stable, and I can finally run Moonlight at 200 Mbps bitrate without any of the stuttering or "network slow" warnings I had with the onboard 100Mbps port.

If you are rooted (Homebrew Channel) and have a 2024 model with the same kernel, you can grab my pre-compiled binary and the auto-boot script here:

https://github.com/mbenitez343/lg-webos-2024-ethernet-fix

Technical Details:

• Kernel: 5.4.268-294.17.paparoa.pine.2
• Chipset: Realtek RTL8152/8153 (TP-Link UE300, etc.)
• TV Model: LG 75QNED86T6A (2024)

Quick Setup:

1. Drop the .ko file in /home/root/.
2. Use the init script provided in the GitHub README to load it automatically on boot.

One tip: LG’s UI doesn't "see" USB adapters, so the settings menu might say "No Internet." Just connect to Wi-Fi to keep the UI happy; the Linux kernel will automatically prioritize the faster wired connection (eth1) for Moonlight and your other apps.

Hope this saves someone the hours of hair-pulling I went through!

----- DISCLAIMER -----

Use this at your own risk. You are modifying kernel-level files on your TV. I am not responsible for any boot loops or system instability (though it works perfectly on my QNED86).

CRITICAL: Before loading the module, check your kernel version by running uname -r or uname -a via SSH. It must match 5.4.268-294.17.paparoa.pine.2. If it doesn't, don't force it.

Feel free to reach out for any questions or help! If you have a different 2024 model with available source code on LG's portal, I’m open to generating other drivers for the community. Let's fix what LG broke.

Saw a post from u/Markulatura with the webos10-homescreen-customization repo a while back. Been playing around with it on my G3 and got it to a point I'm happy with so thought I'd share.

The main thing I added on top is a full-screen wallpaper. Ran into a few things along the way though.

The sidebar on the left (search, settings, account icons) was pushing the wallpaper to the right. Turns out you can't just remove it because the whole screen goes black. Ended up keeping it in the layout but overflowing it off-screen. Doesn't matter since I never use it anyway.

The wallpaper also can't extend into the app icon area at the bottom so there's a hard cutoff. I just baked a fade-to-black into the image itself which makes it look more natural.

One thing I couldn't get working is horizontally centering the app icons. Tried everything in the XML and nothing has any effect. If anyone has figured this out I'd love to know.

Also removed the "Start a new experience with webOS." text and the Go to Apps button by overriding the i18n files with empty strings.

Only have a local repo at the moment but can put it up if anyone wants it, just know it's very much tailored to my setup.

Hi Everyone, I am a student that's gonna be studying comp sci soon and before I get there I figured id learn some JS. While doing so I kinda got rage baited by smarters ip tv being one of the worst apps ever made and decided I was gonna make my own app that doesn't lag and crash and break every 2 seconds. I am still learning and parts of this app are held together with AI (until i acc figure out those parts myself at which point i will rewrite them for efficiency). But as of now I believe this app is genuinely better than all other options out there. its also completely free with no ads as I initially built this just for personal use but I figured id share it and get myself some motivation to acc continue it.

As of right now the app is only live tv with no vod. i might add vod some point down the line but my approach has been for it to be as simple and fast as possible.

Features include adding channels to favs and creating categories within fav and organising channels. the channel up and down button work to go up and down the list which no other ip tv player app seems to have. Theres also epg support

The app is at https://github.com/sharktie/ (I cant link the ip tv repo due to reddit filters but you should be able to find it)

You can also look at this for a preview of what it looks like https://sharktie.github.io/lg-ip tv (remove the space between ip and tv)

You can either add the repo in the readme section to homebrew and install it straight from the app or you can manually download the file from releases and install it via dev manager. (the app does require dev mode)

I've also made a discord server in case anyone wants to drop suggestions and whatnot. Also feel free to come tell me about all the bugs you find as so far I've only tested it on webOS 24. Also I've only recently started adding d pad support so its still a bit broken but it'll get there in the next few days.

https://discord.gg/vjuEYeEPZT