{"id":370,"date":"2023-09-14T00:36:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T22:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:18:26","slug":"hacking-the-hotel-room-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/hacking-the-hotel-room-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hacking” the hotel room TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone<\/p>\n

It’s been a while since my last post. Holiday time :). And it will be some hacking experience from that time. I was living in a hotel in sunny Portugal and after a long day of tripping, I decided to watch another episode of the “The Dropout” series. So I connected my Amazon Firestick to the TV, set up the network connection, and… what I saw was a really dark picture showing some soap opera effect. The “Soap Opera” effect as I call it happens when all these “true motion”, “clear motion” systems are turned on, so the standard 24fps becomes 60fps or more. It’s a matter of preference. Personally, I hate it and always switch it off to get the picture in the original form as it was created. So I pressed the settings button on the remote control but nothing happened. It seems something was locked and the TV was protected against tampering. It was pretty late and I decided to watch the episode as it is – dark, soap opera, and pretty quiet, cause I couldn’t also turn the volume up more than 30.<\/p>\n

The next day I googled a bit and found out that there is something called “Hotel Mode” in this TV (it was some LG smart TV). So I found something that worked for me. Look at the remote controller first.<\/p>\n

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  1. I pressed the input selection button<\/strong> and selected the TV source (not my firestick HDMI)<\/li>\n
  2. I pressed the settings button<\/strong> and held it for 5-10 seconds until the gray border appeared at the top and some info on the current channel.<\/li>\n
  3. As soon as it appeared, I entered the 1,1,0,5 <\/strong>code\u00a0 and pressed the OK button<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. The menu appeared on the screen where I could turn the “Hotel Mode” off \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    When I turned it off, I completely turned off energy saving, so the picture became normal and of course “true motion”,\u00a0 so the soap opera effect disappeared. I also set picture mode to “Cinema”. Now I could enjoy my series :).<\/p>\n

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    On the day I left the hotel room I set the settings back to the original ones and turned the “Hotel Mode” on again.\u00a0 Turning the hotel mode on itself will not get back the previous settings automagically.<\/p>\n

    I hope this can be useful for someone.<\/p>\n

    See you next hack or bug :><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hello everyone It’s been a while since my last post. Holiday time :). And it will be some hacking experience from that time. I was living in a hotel in sunny Portugal and after a long day of tripping, I decided to watch another episode of the “The Dropout” series. So I connected my Amazon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergee.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}