webosbrew-autostart

Companion app to fix WebOS 4.4 broken autostart.

Read more here.

Installation

Getting SSH

You need to have an active SSH connection with the TV first, so that you're able to install the companion app.

Add this repository https://repo.webosapp.club and install Telnet.

Once you have started it, telnet lgwebostv.local then start original SSH with luna-send -n 1 "luna://org.webosbrew.hbchannel.service/autostart" "{}".

Download and install the app

SSH in the TV with ssh [email protected] and run:

wget -O /home/root/webosbrew-autostart.ipk https://github.com/kopiro/webosbrew-autostart/raw/main/org.webosbrew.autostart_0.0.2_all.ipk
luna-send-pub -i 'luna://com.webos.appInstallService/dev/install' '{"id":"org.webosbrew.autostart","subscribe":true,"ipkUrl":"/home/root/webosbrew-autostart.ipk"}'

Rebuilding and installing the app

In case you want to make some modifications, install ares-cli tools with npm install -g @webosose/ares-cli, then setup your connection with ares-setup-device

Read more here.

Now cloen the repo with git clone https://github.com/kopiro/webosbrew-autostart.git, then:

cd ./webosbrew-autostart
[make your changes]
ares-package ./app
ares-install ./org.webosbrew.autostart*