Casting, using your phone for a remote, so the popup for connecting goes away

What a goofy thing to ask. You know exactly why people use smart TVs on the Internet.

I used Netflix on my TV but after the password sharing and other issues I choose to block network access.

Most of my Internet is done on my computer.

Wake on LAN. At least that's what I do. I can turn on the TV and adjust the volume from Home Assistant but the TV itself can't reach the Internet.

When my girlfriend moved in, she had a big TCL Roku TV its software absolutely sucks. But it would keep a blinking led on ALL THE TIME if it wasn't connected to wifi.

I put it on my iot network, and I'm considering null routing it.

I actually had a Roku box plugged into it since it had a better experience, but I'm probably going to switch that to a Nvidia shield pro because of this ad bullshit.