Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. Well, I have a Chromecast Audio here
in my home, and I'm going to get it set up for you right away.
The first thing I'm going to do is to get it unboxed, show you what's inside the box, and then
of course we're going to go through the full setup process. By the end of
this video, you'll know how to set up your full
chromecast audio system using multiple Google Home devices, if you have them in the home,
and how to cast to multiple speakers at the same time. All right, well let's get
the Chromecast Audio opened up. The box itself is quite small and there's not a lot
to it. There is some explanation of what you can do with the product, which is
essentially cast to speakers. Now, there's a small pamphlet inside but ultimately
you just want to open up, get in the box, and see that what you're getting here.
You're going to get the Chromecast dongle itself, a small 5 or 6 inch long
3.5 millimeter stereo cable, and then the power adapter and power adapter cable.
Now all you do is you plug in the 3.5 millimeter cable into the port on the
Chromecast Audio, and then you do the same with the USB connector for your
power. You're essentially ready to go. Once you plug it in, there is a little
flashing light on the side but that's really your only indication that it's
actually on. From there you need to grab your little speaker, make sure it has the
small 3.5 millimeter aux port. Then go ahead and plug it in and you're completely set up now.
Moving on to the setup process, one thing I'll just show you quickly. Now
that you have plugged in your Chromecast, it will show up in your Wi-Fi
network. Don't connect to it, but it is there. It's a good check for you. Now head
into your Google Home application. Once you're in there you're going to notice
right away that one device was found. If you don't get this there are a couple other
routes for you to go. You actually can go to your browser on your
phone or on any device in your home, and go to chromecast.com/setup. Now on a
phone it just redirects you back to the Google home application, so I'm just
going to head back in there. You do have a device's tab so go ahead
tap on that and again you see the capability to set up, but if you didn't
have that, there is also an add new device button at the bottom. So I'm just going to tap on setup
and you can see that it begins the connection process instantaneously. And
you get that sound for you to confirm. Now once you've done that, you have to
confirm where it is in your home and that will actually name the device initially.
Then you have to choose your Wi-Fi network. Now keep in mind I have my
Wi-Fi network already set up in my Google Home app, so if you didn't have this you'd be
asked for a password right now. That's all you'd have to put in and then it
would connect to the Wi-Fi. So my Chromecast Audio is now connected to my
home Wi-Fi, and it's now connected to this application. So we are just going to
link it to our Google account now. And we're almost done is what they're saying.
One thing here I'm not going to show you is how to connect or set up an account with
google play music or Spotify or whatever music service you want to use.
There's a short update process. You don't really have to do anything there. You
just have to wait, and now you're ready to go. Now Google will run you through a
quick tutorial where they actually let you play a sample clip. Now I'm going to
use the TuneIn service. Just going to hit play on there and they show you up top
right (that's the cast button so that's what you're looking for) was in any of
the applications now you can see the basement speaker. That's the name that it
was given because I chose the location as my basement. That's what it's named it
off the top. You can always change that later, so I'm going to choose basement
speaker and you'll hear the connection. ****Sound from a baseball game****
****Sound from a baseball game****
The tutorial now is complete and back in our Google home application, I'm actually
going to tap on devices up top right, and I'm going to scroll down till I find my
basement speaker. Now, you note the little blue thing there that says enable voice
control and more. I'm going to tap on that and you're not actually enabling voice
control, so keep that in mind, but I'm going to hit yes. I'm in, and what that does
is that lets me use it in my account and therefore in services like Google Play
Music or Spotify. Now I can tap on the three dots there. You get a settings. You
can head in, you can rename the device if you want. You have an equalizer, so some
control. You can turn on and off guest mode if you want people to be able to
cast to that device when they come onto your Wi-Fi at home. And then of course I
always like signing up for the preview program just to make sure I get any
updates to my device. I'm just going to go back to the devices screen, and I'm going
to tap the three little dots up at the top right. Then I'm going to hit create group.
Now I can choose all of my Google devices here if I'd like to create a
group. I'm going to call this the Full Trio. It has my Google Home Mini, my
full-size Google Home, and the basement speaker, and of course the setting down
at the bottom (this is really important) make sure that that's on here before you
hit save. This setting ensures that this group is available on applications or
other pieces of software where you can cast so that includes Google Play Music
or Spotify. So there you go I have my full trio
group. Of course I could edit the group or delete it or whatever I want.
I could take speakers in and out of that as we go here, so basically we're
all set up. I'm going to get set up for a demo and we're going to go into Google Play
Music. That's what I have set up. You can see the cast icon top right in the
application. I've just hit that and you can see the Full Trio group that I'm
going to tap on now. The connection is complete to all three of my speakers
that you saw me choose, and I'm going to start some royalty-free music so that I
don't have to mute this out on you. You can see right away that there's control
for audio on all three of the speaker's independently, or you can control them
from the application or from your phone directly.
**music**
I just turned it all down using the buttons on
my phone. Finally, I'm going to show you a demo on how to voice control this full
group. "Play Royalty-Free music on Full Trio". Google Home: "Sure. Royalty Free music from
Google Play Music playing on Full Trio."