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I'm not sure if i get you right, but... HDMI is kind of an one way street. You can't send any signal / data from your TV to the laptop that way. So you can't control your laptop through the TV remote. If you hook up your TV through HDMI it becomes a stupid monitor. My best advice would be to get a small wireless keyboard/touchpad combo to connect to the laptop. Maybe a remote control you connect to the laptop will also do.
There is HDMI CEC which allows a single remote control to control all of your devices, so it must be possible for devices connected by HDMI to receive a signal back from the TV.
Technically yes, but actually no. CEC is horrible and it's considered a genuine miracle when someone ever gets it working.
Yeah, but I want to get rid of my wireless keyboard in favor of a small website/app for my phone.
Have you considered some kind of remote mouse app? There's multiple good options out there, wifimouse.github.io/ for example