Android TV and Google Home

by afilledhort

Hey everybody,

I'm planning on buying a new TV (Philips Android TV) and am currently struggling to find good information what is or should be possible with a Android Tv and a Google home.

While reading in this sub and elsewhere I saw that the controls that are available with a chromecast are now enabled for Android TV but there where quite a few problems with them.

Can anybody tell me what works reliably? Especially the following things: Can you turn the TV on and off? Adjust Volume? Play and pause a video? Start apps? Cast something?

Thanks a lot for the help!

Drejan74

Philips 55pos9002. These are my experiences so far: Turn off and on the TV? No. Adjust volume. No. Play and pause video? No. Start apps? Nope. Cast? Yes, but only from my phone, not my Google home. And if turned off it can't even be casted to, even though I have configured wake on lan and wake on chromecast (used to work, now on Oreo it doesn't). Regular Chromecast in my other TV, can turn it on and cast without problems.

rockett15

Sure, playing x from Netflix on Shield TV. Sorry I can’t play Netflix on Android TV yet.

judikdavid

You can do pretty much everything, except if your TV went back to sleep after turning it off, turning it back on is not gonna work. (So you can turn it back on for a short time, but not later) I have a Philips 49PUS7502 Android TV with the Oreo update (e.g. turning the TV off was not working before the update)

WasedaWalker

If it is really "OFF" you can't turn it on, but if it is in "STANDBY" power saving mode (screen off, CPU off, but WiFi and BT on) then yes you can turn it on via CAST or Assistant commands.

pfmiller0

I have a Shield TV and the integration between Android TV and Google Home is really disappointing in my opinion.

Turning the TV on and off used to work, but that just stopped working recently for some reason. The only thing I can do reliably is pause and unpause and cast.

Casting I never do because if you start a video with casting then you can't use the TV remote to skip forward or back in the video. Likewise, if you start something playing using the TV remove than you won't be able to skip around in the video using commands from your Google Home.

Volume control don't work great, but it does work. I think mostly the problem is due to limitations with CEC. I can mute and unmute, but increasing and decreasing the volume is less reliable. Using a TV with Android TV built in probably will work better.

Bright_Monitor

I have a Sony X750D and I can turn the TV on and off with no issues at all. I can cast to it from an off position, adjust the volume and pause/play a video from it. I can tell it commands to use apps like Netflix, HBO now, and Google Play movies. It's really useful for when I lose my remote. The one main issue I had was when I had to reset all my home devices because of a change I did to my WIFI network. The TV stayed up on the cast list but I couldn't actually cast to it. I had to do a factory reset on my TV in order to erase the bad listing and get casting abilities back to it.

pipsname

My MiBox 3 and TV both support CEC. It is a communication thing over HDMI which allows the Android TV to turn off/on the TV.
"ok Google turn off my living room TV" shuts off my AndroidTV and my TV.

If the TV has Android built in it should work like that still.
The rest of the things you ask work as you would expect.
I just asked Google to pause the video and it passed Netflix.
I have this mini set to default to the living room TV.