Homebrew Channel

Version 0.7.3

⚠️ Note for rooted webOS 22 users¶

Use Homebrew Channel Updater app when updating from Homebrew Channel version older than v0.6.3! Due to a bug in older versions, updating here may cause loss of root access/permissions.

Features¶

• Independent webOS package repository

  • Homebrew discovery, installation & updates

• (root) Root execution service that can be easily used by webOS homebrew developers without a need of separate privilege escalation handling (luna://org.webosbrew.hbchannel.service/exec)

• (root) Disable some telemetry
• (root) Startup user hooks (executable scripts present in /var/lib/webosbrew/init.d are run on bootup)
• (root) Remote access
  • SSH - public key authenticated (with default alpine password until authorized keys are provisioned)
  • Telnet - unauthenticated, use sparingly
• (root) Failsafe mode
  • In case a device crashes on boot only an emergency shell will be exposed via telnet. In order to disable it fix the original crash cause and remove /var/luna/preferences/webosbrew_failsafe flag file.

Last Updated: 2026/01/11 16:40:21 UTC