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How to connect TVs to Google Home
- Thread starter smurph1
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I'd go with the Chromecasts. When I watch videos on my phone I see a Cast icon almost every time I watch them.
svim
Extreme Android User
What you need to do at this point is just sit down and access all your gadgetry and your home network. Basically your TVs and Google Home all need to be connected in some way to your home network, and at that point they should be able to detect and work with each other to some extent.
What something like a Chromecast does is add wireless networking capability to a TV that has no networking built into it. An aspect to a Smart TV is it already has integral networking capability, some just WiFI and some both WiFi and an Ethernet port. So adding a Chromecast to a Smart TV that already has WiFi networking capability isn't adding functionality, it's just duplicating an existing feature.
But a Chromecast may be necessary if one or both of your Smart TVs only has an Ethernet port and no WiFi capability. Presumably one or maybe both of your TVs is/are in completely separate rooms from where your wireless router is located so if running a cable along the floor or drilling holes through walls is not a viable option, than this situation does require something like a Chromecast or a Roku. (Also note these will require an open HDMI port on the TV they connect to).
It would be more helpful to know:
-- What are the exact model I.D.s for both of your Smart TVs, to look up what kind of features to determine their WiFi and/or Ethernet capabilities?
-- What kind of wireless router you have. Is it an ISP supplied modem/router box or do you have your own router (and what brand and model is it)?
-- A brief summary of your home's layout, more specifically where both your TVs and your Google Home are located in relation to where your wireless router is located, including approximate distances between each of them and the router.
I think of Chromecast as Android TV.
Apple phones have WiFi too but depending on the day Apple and Google devices don't play well together.
Apple phones have WiFi too but depending on the day Apple and Google devices don't play well together.
Cheers peeps.
Both my TVs are smart TVs with WiFi. I agree with svim...Chromecast is only an aid to better connect them, when WiFi, if present which it is, should connect already.
But to get them working with google home I was told that they need to be in the google home list of products suitable for use with it, is this correct?
Eg the oldest is a Samsung UE40D6350, now approx. 6 years old.
Both my TVs are smart TVs with WiFi. I agree with svim...Chromecast is only an aid to better connect them, when WiFi, if present which it is, should connect already.
But to get them working with google home I was told that they need to be in the google home list of products suitable for use with it, is this correct?
Eg the oldest is a Samsung UE40D6350, now approx. 6 years old.