Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through once.
I wanna piggyback onto this comment to say that you can change the home launcher on a Chromecast With Google TV (And some other Android TV boxes) by downloading another launcher first (I use FLauncher) and disabling the default home launcher.
1.Download FLauncher first
2.Enable USB debugging
3.ADB into your TV’s IP from a computer
4.adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
This will disable the original launcher
5.adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
This will disable the service that re-enables the launcher
This will cause the home button on the remote to fall back to whatever other home app is installed. No button remapping needed. It will also break the YouTube button, but not the Netflix button.