📺 TV Control Center — Universal Smart TV Management Suite

Universal desktop system management suite and optimization engine for Sony BRAVIA, NVIDIA SHIELD, TCL, Hisense, Philips, Panasonic, Sharp, Vu, Fire TV, Chromecast, and Xiaomi Smart TVs.

🌟 Overview

TV Control Center is a high-performance desktop web console that connects wirelessly to your Smart TV over ADB (Android Debug Bridge). It allows you to audit hardware, tune performance profiles, calibrate display & audio engines, manage apps, debloat telemetry, configure launchers, and control your TV remotely — all from your laptop or desktop browser.

graph TD
    subgraph "TV Control Center Architecture"
        DESK["Desktop Browser Console<br>(http://localhost:8888)"] -->|HTTP REST API| PY["Python 3 Async HTTP Server<br>(bravia_control / server.py)"]
        PY -->|Wireless ADB Bridge| TV["Smart TV Device Bridge<br>(192.168.2.122:5555)"]
        
        TV -->|SoC Hardware| MTK["MediaTek MT5893 Quad-Core @ 1.5 GHz"]
        TV -->|Picture Processor| X1["Sony X1 4K HDR Processor"]
        TV -->|Sound Engine| DSEE["Sony DSEE Audio Enhancer & Voice Zoom"]
    end

⚡ Key Features

• 🗂 Persistent Sidebar Navigation: Clean, modern SPA shell with Home, Performance, Display, Audio, Network, Apps, Launcher, Remote, Hardware, Activity, and Settings views.
• 🎛 Simple / Advanced Mode Toggle: Hide technical parameters (debug.sf.hw, tcp_window_scaling) from casual users while giving power users deep low-level control.
• 🔍 Command Palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K): Fuzzy-search search bar across all settings, actions, DNS configurations, and page routes.
• 🚀 1-Click Optimizations: One-click RAM cleaner, cache purger, YouTube accelerator, and full-system performance booster.
• 🛡️ 20-Package Safe Debloater: Easily disable Samba TV tracking (tv.samba.ssm), Sony bug reporters, Google TV recommendation ads, and demo stubs.
• 📱 Live App Utilization Telemetry: Scan all 52+ installed apps, track live PSS memory footprints, and disable unused apps with 1 click.
• 📸 Snapshot & Restore System: Save and restore full system configuration states locally on host JSON, browser LocalStorage, and TV storage (/data/local/tmp/).
• 📦 APK Drag-and-Drop Sideloader: Sideload APK files directly to your TV by dropping them onto the browser.
• 🎮 Virtual Remote Control: Wireless D-pad, Home, Back, Menu, Volume controls, and desktop keyboard arrow keys integration.
• 🍞 Toast & Activity Timeline: Instant notifications and full audit trail of every modification with exact timestamps.

📺 Supported Devices & Hardware Profiles Matrix

📊 Performance Comparison Matrix

🚀 Quick Start (1 Command Launch)

📖 Need help enabling ADB on your TV? Follow our step-by-step SETUP_GUIDE.md for brand-specific navigation paths (Sony BRAVIA, Google TV, NVIDIA SHIELD, TCL, Hisense, Fire TV).

1. Prerequisites

• Python 3.8 or higher installed on your computer.
• Android Debug Bridge (adb) installed (brew install android-platform-tools on macOS).
• Smart TV connected to the same Wi-Fi network with ADB Debugging enabled under Developer Options.

2. Run Control Console

python3 -m bravia_control serve --port 8888

Open http://localhost:8888 in your browser.

💖 Support & Monetization

BRAVIA Control Center is 100% free and open-source. If this tool helped speed up your TV, consider supporting ongoing development:

• ☕ Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/braviacontrol
• 💖 GitHub Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/anumac

🤝 Credits & Open-Source Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the developers of the open-source tools and components integrated into this suite:

• Projectivy Launcher by Spocky
• FLauncher by efesser
• Button Mapper by flar2
• SmartTube 4K by yuliskov
• Google Fonts (Inter & JetBrains Mono) by Google Fonts
• Android Debug Bridge (ADB) by Google Android Open Source Project

⚖️ Legal, Warranty & Limitation of Liability Disclosures

[!CAUTION] NO WARRANTY & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: BRAVIA Control Center is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without warranties of any kind. Under no circumstances shall the authors, maintainers, or contributors be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, device bricking, soft-bricking, boot-loops, warranty voidance, data loss, app malfunction, or system instability) arising out of the use or inability to use this software.

All ADB property overrides (setprop), package debloating (pm disable-user), and network buffer tweaks are executed at the user's sole risk and discretion.

For full legal terms, review the DISCLAIMER.md document.

📜 Trademark Notice

BRAVIA® is a registered trademark of Sony Group Corporation. Android TV™, Google Play™, YouTube™, and Google TV™ are trademarks of Google LLC.

BRAVIA Control Center is an independent, community-driven open-source project. It is not affiliated with, authorized by, maintained by, sponsored by, or endorsed by Sony Group Corporation, Google LLC, MediaTek Inc., or any of their subsidiaries.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.