How to Connect Google Home to Your TV
Google Home's features now include working with your TV. Although you can't physically connect a Google Home to a TV, you can use it to send voice commands through your home network to a TV in several ways that, in turn, allow you to stream content from selected apps and/or control some TV functions.
Use Google Home With TV via Chromecast
One way to connect Google Home with your TV is via a Google Chromecast or Chromecast Ultra media streamer that plugs into to any TV that has an HDMI input.
Typically, a smartphone or tablet is used to stream content through the Chromecast so you can see it on a TV. However, when a Chromecast is paired with Google Home you have the choice to use Google Assistant voice commands through your smartphone or Google Home.
To get started, make sure that the Chromecast is plugged into your TV and that it, your smartphone and Google Home are on the same network. This means that they are connected to the same router.
There might be slight variations between the Android and iOS apps; the following steps are for Android.
- Turn the TV on, and make sure the Chromecast screen is showing on your TV.
- Open the Google Home app on your smartphone.
- Tap the plus sign at the top.
- Choose Set up device.
- Tap Set up new devices in your home.
- Setting up a new device
- Pick an existing home or make a new one, and then tap Next.
Wait while your phone searches for the Chromecast. Tap Next when the app finds the Chromecast.
Confirm that the code on the TV matches the one in the app, and then press Yes.
Finding and choosing a device in Google Home
Choose I agree to continue.
Tap Yes, I'm in (or No thanks, if you prefer).
Choose a room to help identify where the Chromecast is, and then tap Next.
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Connect Chromecast to Wi-Fi by following the on-screen steps.
Tap Next to link your Chromecast to your Google account.
Follow any additional on-screen steps to set up your Chromecast.
Connecting to Wi-Fi
If you set up Google Home in the same house as your Chromecast, you shouldn't have a problem immediately pairing the two to play music and videos.
However, if you can't seem to get your Google Home to communicate with the Chromecast, try this:
From the Google Home app, tap the TV that Chromecast is plugged into.
Click the gear icon at the top.
Tap Default TV and make sure the Chromecast TV is selected.
Tap Home and then choose the home that you added the Chromecast to in the above steps.
On the settings page, tap Default TV and make sure the Chromecast TV is selected.
Tap Next.
Choose Move device.
Still not working? Go back to Settings, tap Default TV and make sure the Chromecast TV is selected.
Using Google Assistant Commands On Your TV
Once the Chromecast is linked to Google Home you can use Google Assistant voice commands to stream (cast) video to your TV. Google keeps a
You cannot use Google Home voice commands to watch (cast) content from apps outside of those listed above. To view content from any additional desired apps, they have to be sent to the Chromecast using your smartphone. See Google's list of compatible streaming apps.
On the other hand, you can use Google Home to ask Chromecast to perform additional TV functions (may vary with app and TV). Some commands include Pause, Resume, Skip, Stop, Play specific program or video on compatible service, and turn subtitles/captions on/off. Also if content offers more than one subtitle language, you may be able to specify the language you want to be displayed.
If your TV also has HDMI-CEC and that feature is enabled (check your TV's HDMI settings), you can use Google Home to tell your Chromecast to turn the TV on or off. Your Google Home can also switch to the HDMI input the Chromecast is connected to on your TV when you send a voice command to start playing content.
This means that if you are watching a broadcast or cable channel, and you tell Google Home to play something using the Chromecast, the TV will switch to the HDMI input that the Chromecast is connected to and start playing.
Use Google Home with a TV That Has Google Chromecast Built-in
Polaroid TV with Chromecast Built-in.
Linking Chromecast with Google Home is one way to use Google Assistant voice commands to stream video to your TV, but there a number of TVs that have Google Chromecast Built-in.
This allows Google Home to play streaming content, as well as access some control features, including volume control, without having to go through an additional plug-in Chromecast device.
If a TV has Chromecast built-in, use an Android or iOS smartphone to perform preliminary setup using the Google Home App.
To link Google Home with the TV that has Chromecast built in, follow the same steps as above.
The services that Google Home can access and control with a Google Chromecast are the same as those that can be accessed and controlled on a TV with Chromecast built-in. Casting from a smartphone provides access to more apps.
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