Does the 2019 Shield do hands-free Google Assistant?

by trytoholdon

I have a JBL Link Bar, which I do like except for the fact that it’s kind of sluggish. I am thinking about upgrading to a new Shield TV, but want to make sure I can still yell “Hey Google, we want the meatloaf” from across the room.

Physicallykrisp

Nope, you have to press the button on the remote to activate the assistant

BenSchoon

Actually Nvidia mentioned in a briefing that this is something they want to do, but it's unclear if it'll actually happen

jhoff80

I don't have an answer to this, but I'm curious, does your Link Bar do the thing that mine started doing as of last month's update? (I think it started about a month ago at least).

Turning it on by pressing home will then instead bring me to the ARC input. I press home and it brings me to the homescreen... and then goes back to the ARC input. Only after I press home again does it stay in Android TV mode. Kind of frustrating when it worked perfectly in the earlier build.

Dlinefivenine

My 2017 does it via the game controller