Use phone's Google assistant to play youtube on android tv

by Alonzzo2

Hi, Does it work for you guys? I think it worked for me at the past... I'm playing around with the Google home application, and I'm able to turn on, off and volume control on my Android TV (Nvidia shield TV).

Weird thing is that the Google Assistant on my phone is saying "ok, playing on shield" but nothing happens

aonysllo

Nope. I can tell it to turn on "Youtube on the shield" and it does. But it will not play a video. Same with Spotify and Plex and probably others.

lpjunior999

"Play X from YouTube on Device" works for me. It's not very specific.

3choBlast3r

"Ok Google, turn on my TV and start YouTube"

Will startup my TV and start youtube. Its pretty cool. That said my TV has android natively

oz4769

I've got a mibox s, works like a charm 9/10 cases. 1/10 it goes full retard, the command registers on my phone but won't happen anything on the TV, also the ok Google button on the mibox when pressed triggers Google but won't register any command. If I leave it be, it will execute all the commands at once after a few minutes, then turns back to normal. A quicker way to fix this issue was to unplug AC and plug back in.

I guess it's because the Android version, might need a fix.. or in my case potentially overheating, I use it at least 15 hours/day.