Apologies if this should be posted somewhere else.
I have had this TV for about 7 years and have never had this pop up before. About a month ago, I bought a router that uses OpenWRT. With that, I setup up Adguard and specifically one of the lists that is supposed to block devices from phoning home.
Am I nuts thinking that this pop up is due to the TV not being able to offload what has been recorded? How would I check that?
It probably ran out of space because the logs were getting spammed with "server unreachable" messages (because it could not send privacy-invading tracking data).
Well that's most probably what happened.
GamersNexus' report showed that their LG TV would hold onto logs and recordings until it could reach the server to send them.
If you block it from reaching the server, I guess they never delete.
No, you're not nuts to think that. For starters, you could try to clear the cache to free up some space:
Sam was here and took your RAM
Kind of wild it has "factory reset" and still keeps your network settings. What else does it keep?
Factory reset it then don’t connect it to the Internet at all. It looks like you have a computer connected to it, just use that. KDE even has a big screen interface.
I stopped connecting my TVs to the internet as soon as manufacturers started using android to operate them.
Why?
Because I figured they would doing what they are doing. And maybe back then they weren’t so bad quite yet, but I need to be adjusting my opsec before I’m compromised, not after.
Evaluate the potential not the proven.
About a month ago, I bought a router that uses OpenWRT. With that, I setup up Adguard and specifically one of the lists that is supposed to block devices from phoning home.
How would I check that?
AdGuard used DNS to enforce its blocklists, you can setup your own DNS sinkhole server on your network relatively easily, point your devices to it, and view what servers your devices on your network are connecting to.
I just disconnected my samsung tv from my wifi yesterday because it had a popup it was doing a software update. It was already substantially laggier than when I bought it. Whenever I use it I'm either playing a game or using the pi I have plugged into it so I just want it to switch inputs quickly. Only reason I hadn't killed it yet in my transition to FOSS is because my wife uses it for netflix. Maybe we'll use this as a good break point to get her off the netflix subscription completely. I die a little inside when I see it on my credit card statement.
Thank god for this TV mess. I finally rooted my TV, it took all of five minutes.
The native Plex (PlxNative) someone cooked up is buttery-smooth. Almost shed a tear my media centre doesn't feel like a 10yo android tablet.
My 2 new LGs are isolated. I just need dumb tvs.
I heard that when the TVs can't reach the web, they try continuously, and it could be the system logs got full off all the errors, or they want a reset to try to get back online.
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