Google Home and Netflix?

by MoltenTesseract

I thought I saw a while ago that Google were fixing the Google Home cannot play Netflix on Android TV issue, but I still can't use GH to play Netflix on my TV. Just the usual "Try using your remote" response.

hotwalnut

Google product compatible with a Google product? You're dreaming

mr_blanket

“soon”

pipsname

When watching shows it brings you to a screen where you need to use the remote to play. Movies and stuff it just plays. I noticed this when I turned my Pi into a Google Home box.

Tomjr78

You have to connect your services via the Google assistant settings.

iwarsam

Same here!

mrwazsx

At the moment I can't even cast netflix to my Android TV without it just opening the Netflix app...

M_Me_Meteo

I linked my Netflix account to Google home on my Pixel 3 and it works fine.

j4nds4

The crazy thing about this is that, if I'm remembering correctly:

  • Google Assistant can do this to the Roku
  • Alexa can do this to the Shield

But Google can't do it to itself?

Neohamster84

Does anybody know if this should work for all Google Home and Android TV devices for a given region (once enabled), or would it require those devices to have the latest version of the software? I've seen some people in the UK say this works for them, but I still get the error message from Google Home whenever I try to request a specific episode of something. I have no pending software updates :(