You'd think they'd include an ethernet port on the device itself.
Or, hopefully they include a power brick with a RJ45 port. WiFi for streaming large high bitrate files is less than ideal especially if it's touted as a set top streaming box.
Nah, fuck Google TV. The current one hasn't received an update since Android 12 from 3 years ago, it's slow as balls and lags out playing videos, and is completely filled with ads. It actively tries to prevent you from remapping buttons and home screen if you actually want to use something else besides Youtube and Netflix.
I wish there was more development on Kodi, because the Android TV ecosystem is awful.
"After Chromecast"? Nah, not ready to just throw out all of my stuff just because Google got bored of Chromecast. If google kills chromecast that tells me it's time yet again to find a replacement non-google service. One by one, they make sure that I don't use their products.
It's going to be a bit tough considering that the Chromecast protocol is being used by pretty much every Android app.
I'm not aware of any open source app that can pose as a Chromecast on the network and/or convert the protocol to DLNA, but maybe I haven't searched enough.
I've been starting to use Snapcast. On it's own it's great, but I don't think I can cast from any generic Android app to snapcast, which is the problem. I'm still learning though
Just today spent way over an hour setting up a Chromecast with Google TV at father in laws today. Factory reset that thing four times. Used every wifi connection I could find and finally got it working by hot-spotting my own phone and setting it up.
Not buying more Google. It's just hot garbage at this point.
I forget the term, but networks where it's a single network for multiple people with different passwords to determine what peers you can see/access cause problems with Google home stuff. My current apartment has that, I tried to use that for my smart home stuff but ultimately had to put it back on my secondary wi-fi network on my router
i had a 'google tv' back in 2011 - made by Sony who partnered with google - it was like an amped up bluray player/streaming box in one. it had a great sony blu-ray optical drive, could stream what services were available at the time and had the best remote control I've ever seen... i loved it. Unfortunately google's planned obsolescence destroys products. you guys left it useless just 2 years after i purchased it new.
Mine was working fine with that setup until one day it just wasn't. The Google home setup just fails with no explanation. And tracking down the reason was a huge pain in the ass because that type of network configuration is such a niche use case.
Sorry, I'm still kind of pissed about it. I just want to use a hostname for jellyfin casting instead of the ip address.