Commercials are loud, stupid, and annoying. This wooden wedge shuts them up.
AdalogHole sits on your coffee table and quietly watches the TV. Game on? Sound on. Commercial break? Instant mute — or it flips your soundbar to your own music. It never touches your TV's software; it just looks at the screen, the same way you do.
Advertisement + the Analog Hole.
The analog hole is the gap every copy-protection scheme can't close: once something is on a screen, a camera can just photograph it. No signal to tap. No handshake to spoof.
AdalogHole points that loophole at advertising. It doesn't plug into HDMI, install an app, or ask your smart TV for permission. It takes a picture of whatever's in front of it — which means your TV literally cannot tell it's being watched back.
Look, decide, mute. Every few seconds, all on its own.
You always know what it's thinking.
The little LCD points away from the TV, toward the couch. It tells you what it sees and what it just did — no app to open, no phone to check. Twist the knob to override, lock the current mode, or tell it to mind its own business.
A handful of honest parts in a nice piece of wood.
Wide-angle camera
Sees the whole screen from across the room. The eye of the analog hole.
IR emitter
Learns your TV and soundbar codes — mute, volume, or a whole source switch, like a tiny invisible thumb.
Microphone
Senses the tell-tale loudness spike of an ad break as a second opinion.
Rotary knob + push
Override, lock a mode, or scroll the menu. Satisfying detents included.
Status LCD
Crisp mono readout of what it sees and what it did. Points at the couch, not the screen.
Onboard battery + compute
Charge it by USB-C somewhere else, then set it on the table — no cable snaking across your coffee table. A small board does the thinking; no fan, no noise.
Walnut
The hero finish. Oiled hardwood, every grain different.
Anodized aluminum
Cold, precise, machined. For the brushed-metal crowd.
3D-printed
Cheapest path in. Download the STL and print it tonight.
Yours to read, build, fork, and improve.
Firmware, schematics, the full bill of materials, and enclosure CAD all live in the open. Solder your own, print a shell, or buy a finished unit if you'd rather not — either way nothing is locked.
Bring your own LLM. Point the classifier at OpenAI, Anthropic, or a model running on your own machine. No AdalogHole subscription, no tokens to buy from us — unless you want the prebuilt, just-works path, which includes it.
★ Star on GitHubBe first to silence the lizard.
It isn't real yet — it's a prototype. Drop your email and we'll tell you when prebuilt units, kits, and shells are ready to ship.