Having seen some posts about the topics above, I’ve decided to share my set up - having chromecast functionality while using hdmi cec and making the TV turn on in an easy way with the mi box.

Now first things first the mi box is not a chromecast. You can’t cast to it when it’s off. So you have to turn it on first.

So the idea is to have hdmi cec turned on, and making sure that the mi box picks up the casts.

You activate google assistant and configure the mi box to be the “living room TV” or whatever.

Once you want to cast, you tell to google assistant “turn on the tv”. You can have the google assistant app on your device so that should be a non issue. It will turn on the tv and switch to the mi box hdmi channel (fun fact: my Samsung tv has an option that specifies a default menu, if you have this on it will change the mi box channel to that default menu/ channel a few seconds afterwards opening the mi box channel...Just turn that crap off and save some headaches)

Once the mi box turns on, which usually is pretty fast, you’ll be in the mi box hdmi channel and be able to cast to it.

I don’t don’t cast a lot, either I’m watching on my smartphone or I’m using the standard Samsung tizen apps because until now they have been working properly, but I do have a google home mini and after reading a bunch of comments I figured this would be of use to someone out there :) hope it helps!

“Turn tv off” also works:) Oh and plex. Plex also works really good!! :)