Controlling Android TV from Google Home Mini

by mrb0h

So I just bought a TCL TV with Android TV built in, which has been excellent so far. However, I'm unable to use my Google Home Mini to play content with the built-in Chromecast. When I ask it to do stuff (play music on Spotify, play content on Netflix) it says that it can't find the device name on the network. Manually casting to the TV works fine. When I plug in my old Chromecast to the HDMI port the Home Mini has no trouble casting to that either. Is this a known limitation of Android TV/TCL or have I configured something wrong?

oddbin

It's a know limitation sadly. The TV has Google cast not the full Chromecast suite. Allegedly Assistant was supposed to fix all this but as of yet nothing.

akhild

Hey which version your tcl tv running?, if Android 7.0 you have google assistant on TV right.