Your own photo in an off white mat, with the day, the weather and what's on. On the TV you already own. Free.
Shout Josh a coffeeGoogle TV, Android TV and Samsung with Art Mode
Off white, because pure white glows on a screen. A thin lit bevel where the mat is cut, and a soft shadow onto the photo, the way a print sits behind its mat.
The photo is toned like a print too: blacks lifted a little, highlights rolled off below the mat, so it reads as paper rather than a screen.
The day, the weather, what is on today. A reminder for bins night, or a line of your own. Show one or all of them.
Calendar and reminders come from a computer at home that stays on. Without one, a Google TV shows the date, the weather and a line of your own.
Bright at midday, dimmer and warmer through dusk, the way a print on the wall changes with the room. Then off at night.
The curve comes from your sunrise, sunset and the day's sunlight. The night cut off (10 pm to 7 am unless you change it) needs the computer that stays on. Without it, the TV's own timer ends the art.
Any mat colour except pure white. A black core, a dark board, the label on either side, or the photo right to the edges.
A different look for each TV, if you have more than one.
From your own folder: in order, at random, or the same one always. Name a photo for a date and it comes back on that day every year.
JPEGs and iPhone photos both work. You choose which part survives the crop: centre, top, bottom, left or right.
Your TV stays a TV. The art only takes over when the remote goes quiet.
Ten minutes after the last button press, the art appears as the TV's own screensaver. Any button brings the TV straight back.
With a computer that stays on, it can also wake the TV with art in the morning and put it to sleep at night.
A fresh matted picture goes into Samsung's real Art Mode each morning, so the motion sensor, the brightness sensor and the low power all keep working.
Art brightness follows the sun on the TV's own scale. Your own photos in My Photos are never touched.
Everything runs in your house. No account, no cloud service, no analytics.
Only the weather request to Open-Meteo, with your location rounded, and your own calendar link if you add one. Your photos are copied, never changed, and go nowhere else.
Privacy in fullOn a big LCD the only real saving is fewer hours, because dimming the picture does not dim the backlight. So art only when the TV is idle is the default, and the cheapest way.
| TV | Idle only | All day |
|---|---|---|
| 98 inch LCD Google TV | $66 | $526 |
| 55 inch LCD Google TV | $20 | $158 |
| 65 inch Samsung, Art Mode | $11 | $88 |
Idle only is 1.5 hours a day, all day is 12. The watts are estimates until you measure yours with a plug in energy meter (about $15).
It is new, so here is exactly where it stands. Every TV that runs it moves a line up.
Running on a 98 inch Google TV since 2 November 2026, with and without a computer: art after 10 minutes idle, any button back to TV, the label with date, weather and calendar, and the undo.
LG, Amazon Fire TV with Fire OS, Apple TV, Samsung without Art Mode, and any TV through an HDMI box.
Tried it on your TV? Tell us what happened. The honest route for every other TV is in Other TVs.
Two ways, both from a computer. Let an AI agent do it with you, or follow every step yourself.
No phone only setup yet: most Google TVs only let a computer change the screensaver, over a one time developer connection called ADB.
Give the GitHub link to Claude Code, or any AI agent that can run commands on your computer, and say:
Set this up on my TV.
Copy a few commands into Terminal on a Mac. Every step is written out, from installing to the undo.
Google TV gets the calendar, reminders, the brightness curve, a morning wake and a night sleep. A Samsung gets a new picture every morning.
Google TV makes the picture itself: photo, date, weather and a line of your own. The lowest power way. A Samsung keeps Art Mode, with no daily picture.
One command, or ask your agent to undo it.
.venv/bin/anytvart undo --tv "Lounge"Yes. It is open source under the MIT licence, with no account and no subscription. If it made your wall nicer, you can shout Josh a coffee below.
No, that is the point. It works on a Google TV or Android TV, and it puts a fresh picture into Art Mode on Samsungs that have it.
Not yet. A Google TV only lets a computer pick a different screensaver, once, over ADB. A Samsung needs a computer to make and send the picture.
No. Without one, a Google TV makes the picture itself from photos copied onto it once. Keep one on for the calendar, reminders, the light curve and the morning and night schedule, and for a Samsung's daily picture.
On a Samsung in Art Mode the picture is 3840 by 2160. On Android TVs we make no 4K claim: many draw apps at 1080p and scale up, whatever the panel is.
Software can reduce how much glare shows: a lighter mat, lighter photos and a picture that keeps up with daylight. It can't hide a window reflected in glossy glass. That is placement, a blind or a matte screen. The glare guide says what helps.
Tell it your panel is OLED and the picture shifts by a few pixels each hour so nothing sits still. OLED handling is in beta: no OLED has run it yet.
On Google TV any button ends the art and you are back on TV. On a Samsung, the power button switches between TV and Art Mode as it always has. The tool never presses power on a Samsung.
No. It is not made by or affiliated with Samsung, Google or any TV maker.
Please tell us with the tester form. anytvart report makes a copy of your TV's details with addresses and names taken out, for you to read and paste. Troubleshooting covers the common ones.
Josh Seage built Any TV Art for the big TV in his own living room and gives it away free. If it made your wall nicer, shout him a coffee, or follow along for what comes next.
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