9to5Google can now report that what replaces the Chromecast with Google TV 4K is the “Google TV Streamer.”
Happy with our Nvidia Shield TV Pro on the main TV and Onn 4K Pro on the secondary TVs.
In both cases with the superb Projectivity Launcher, so we don’t need to see the default Google front end and any promoted content.
It’s perfect.
Oh nice, I’ll look into that launcher. Been using Wolf for a bit, but it’s too barebones for my liking.
FLauncher isn’t bad either.
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.
“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.
Huh? This is a hardware successor to the 2020 “Chromecast with Google TV”. This device will support casting. Casting isn’t going anywhere…
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
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. They still sell this thing at full price, even though they clearly abandoned it years ago.
I wish there was more development on Kodi, because the Android TV ecosystem is awful.
I just got one of the cheap Chromecast+Google TV things and I’m pleasantly surprised by the Jellyfin app.
UI is definitely sluggish on home screen.
Yeah, the Jellyfin app is nice.
I was a bit frustrated that I couldn’t connect to my Jellyfin for a while on my Google TV. It turns out that Android 12 doesn’t support modern HTTPS certificates, and it was failing with a HTTPS connection error. I had to go and downgrade my certificate from the 2020 Let’s Encrypt CA to the 2015 Let’s Encrypt CA, just to get it to work again. It’s super frustrating that the android version on is so old that it doesn’t support fucking HTTPS certificates from 2020.
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.
Pretty happy with my Chromecast (with Google TV).
Something with a little more power would be great. Although the current Chromecast streams files from my Plex server pretty well as is.
My Google TV lags out on subtitles with Jellyfin. It also just lags out in general sometimes and I have to restart it.
My Roku lags on subs while using Jellyfin too.
I hope Jellyfin comes out with a setting to fix this issue.
Subtitles are a problem with Plex for me unless I upload the subtitles myself.
I am still using my OG Chromecast from 2014.
Same boat almost, not even sure when I bought it, 2016 maybe. Keep wondering when they will do something to it so it stops working well.
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
Hopefully matter casting will be a bit more fleshed out by then.
Can it use a custom DNS so I can use my own local media?
You know it’s stuff like this that forces me to rewrite dns on the firewall, but that’s probably not even possible if they use DNS over TLS.
It flat out refuses to work when you do that.
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 setup 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.
Has this new device been abandoned by Google yet? They could set a new record; abandonment prior to release.
Wondering if Google Glass counts for that, since it was only ever available as a test device for developers. Never made it to general availability before it got the boot.
Bad name
I agree. I feel like today’s usage of the word “streamer” applies to a person, not an object.
Plus, it’s generic
Make it powerful enough for the UI to be fast and smooth and I’ll upgrade in a heartbeat.
I have a Chromecast Ultra 4K from 2016; does anyone know if it’s possible to homebrew/jailbreak it?
Google TV Streamer Chat incoming
