alright now what you just watched was my Google Chromecast it's actually a
version 2 device playing on my TV and it was also playing in a Google Home
application group so it was multi-room audio or multi speaker audio there that
you were watching now why would you want to do this why would you want to use a
Google Chromecast well obviously in a lot of homes in North America and the
world over the best speaker in the home is attached to the TV people have the
surround systems all of those big speakers or even the TV itself tends to
be a great speaker in general so you know what guys it's time to get using
your TV and its speaker system in your Google Home it's multi-room audio if
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button down below obviously a video like today what I'm
here to do is give you back time in your life a couple things before we get going
you need to be a part of the preview program today that obviously won't be
the case for very long but right now you need version 1.3 6 or better in order to
have your Google Chromecast and that's a version 2 or a version 3 of the device
and if you have either of those two versions and 1.36 this is now available
to you to play music with the other thing you're going to want to do unless
you want to use your remote every time on your TV is make sure that your HDMI
ports can turn on the TV so my Google Chromecast initially couldn't actually
turn on my TV and I have a Panasonic TV I had to turn on basically the wake on
our wake by device setting on my TV once I'd done that then I was good to go and
basically as soon as I started music my TV turned on so let me show you a quick
demo of how that slave foo fighters on basement chrome
sure food fighters from Google Play Music
planning on basement chrome vol 2 a hundred percent next song
so there you go obviously I could start and stop the music and I was controlling
it through one of these devices you saw me controlling it using this but this is
the Google Home Hub if you don't know but anyways I could control it through
this I could start and stop music and this visual interface I think was really
really helpful to show you that the song was playing and moving along there and
that the control was going on and when I said start and stop I could see that you
could see I could also raise and lower the volume your TV still has an
up-and-down volume that you can use as well so Google Chromecast is not
actually changing the volume on your TV it's changing the input volume to the
Chromecast and therefore the volume overall but you can also adjust your
TV's volume if you've maxed out the Chromecast you want it louder or quiet
or whatever what have you the other thing I could do is I could go ahead and
move back and forward in the in terms of songs I could obviously change artists
if I'd like or playlists if you're capable of doing that with a music
service you're capable of doing that on your Chromecast from now on so in terms
of actually getting your Chromecast working with that that's about it you
can obviously control it through the app on your phone if you'd like you can go
through the casting capability there but ultimately I like the voice control and
using another one of these devices but you do not need that to actually work
you can go ahead and use the Google Home app now moving on to multi-room audio
and using a Chromecast within a multi-room audio system now what you can
do is you can go ahead and create a group now I created a group called Jim
group and that's as simple as hitting the Add button at the top and going
ahead and adding the different devices you'd like to that group and once you've
done that and you make sure you add your Chromecast to that group then you're
able to use basically that voice interface or again use the application
to go ahead and cast music to it so let me show you a quick demo obvious
all the same commands are going to work in terms of moving back and forth
between songs next in previous volume up and down choosing your artist choosing a
playlist choosing genre even with it whatever you'd like but ultimately
here's a quick demo of that getting started play Foo Fighters on gym group
alright Foo Fighters on Google Play Music playing on gym group.
a couple things you're going to notice right off the bat there was no longer a
visual interface on the Chromecast and I don't know how long it'll be that way
for but for myself Chromecast stops showing the actual
album cover from the band that I was playing it started showing ambient mode
so that much had changed what you were actually watching to was a Chromecast
Audio the Google Home Hub a Google Chromecast in my Google Chromecast which
is a version 2 so that's what you were watching and all four of those devices
were synchronized now talking about synchronization because that is the most
difficult component of this whole scenario and it's not going to be easy
for me to walk each one of you through how to do this but here's what I'm going
to tell you in terms of setting up and synchronizing a Google Chromecast with
these types of devices now first things first
what I'll say is my Google Chromecast was the device that was the furthest
ahead in terms of how far the song had been played into so it was the one that
was the furthest ahead the one that was the furthest behind was actually my
Google Home my standard Google Home device this was somewhere in the middle
or very close to my Google Home and the Google Chromecast
the Chromecast Audio rather was very close to my Google Chromecast so you
know in general what I'll tell you to do is find the device that's the furthest
ahead in the song and find the device that's the furthest behind in the song
and what you do is you delay the speaker or the or the Chromecast in my case it
was the Chromecast I had to delay that the full 200
milliseconds that you have use of the slider basically inside of the
application I had to defer that 200 milliseconds
fully to get it to basically synchronize with this device now that's what you
have to do you identify the first and last speaker and then you just make them
all meet that last speaker based on delay
unfortunately if you have too much delay for some reason you're not going to be
able to do this I wouldn't expect it it's kind of
expected that all the audio in your home should be around that time line but if
you have additional Wi-Fi devices like a Wi-Fi extender that's going to be
something that's going to add another delay to your system
if you have other hops or other hubs things that are kind of taking up lots
of traffic you may run into extra delay so now let me actually show you really
quickly you can see in the first part of this there is that funny delay and
really all I'm doing is moving that slider on my Google Chromecast to match
up with my Google Home here and then both of them are synchronized and at
that point I'm able to synchronize everything so you can see from the first
to the last part of this next demo the differential and you can actually hear
it synchronizing
now just to make sure you guys have everything clear here I'm going to do a
little demo just on my phone here to show you all the different components
you're going to need the first thing I'm going to show you in the Google Home
application is how to make sure you're on the preview program so in the bottom
right of the Google Home application there's basically a Settings icon you
click on that and you go in and then you tap on settings once inside of settings
you're going to see account preferences tap on that and go to email
notifications inside of there you can see the preview program for Chromecast
and Google Home now once you tap that and you make sure that that settings
basically on you're going to need to wait a little while for your Chromecast
to upgrade if you don't already have version 1.3 6 and once that occurs then
you're able to use it in music and audio now in order to check that your device
actually has the right version on it you need to go to the settings of the actual
device so from the home screen in the Google Home application you then tap on
the device and then the gear up in the top right and scroll all the way down
through the device settings to the bottom where you will see 1.36
or whatever the cast firmware version is that you have on the device at this time
now moving on to creating a speaker group in the Google Home application
again the add button on the front page is what you tap on then you're choosing
create a speaker group and now you choose the different devices now you can
see top left my basement chrome that is a Chromecast that's the version 2 that
I'm using in this demo but you could have a version 2 or a version 3 as long
as you have that right firmware version now you can tap on all the different
devices you'd like to add and then you simply put in a group name again I'm
calling mine gym group for this demo once that group is create
you can go in later into that same group and adjust which devices are in that
group so you're not stuck here you simply go into the settings top right
and then you scroll down and you tap on choose devices and you could add other
devices if you'd like or remove devices if you'd like as well once you've
created that group any application with a cast icon in it anywhere will be able
to choose that group so you can see that I can choose the jim group and there I
go I'm casting now to that group in terms of synchronizing audio within a
multi room or multi speaker system inside of a Google Chromecast or a
Chromecast Audio device in the Google Home application you will actually see
the word sync audio or a button to press on once you press on that you do get the
slider and this is where you adjust it and it takes about a second for your
speaker to actually adjust to the new delay that you've input so as you move
that back and forth give it a second make sure you you let the speaker adjust
once it's adjusted go ahead and listen to the two speakers independently what I
was doing was literally putting my ear up to each of the devices and then just
moving back and forth between them now in terms of a Google Home a Google Home
Mini or a Google Home Hub it actually says that the synchronization process
which you have to find in the devices settings in the case of those devices it
actually says it's only working this this delay is only working with
Bluetooth that's not actually the case I was able to adjust the delay on those
devices as I wanted to so I'm thinking this is just a typo and that Google will
remove that over time all right there you go guys obviously now you can get
your Google Chromecast version 2 or version 3 setup connected and playing
music in your home you can use that TV speaker and you can also go ahead and
use it in in the Google Home world here so go
ahead do that get it set up and of course if you have any questions
comments your you're really struggling with something go ahead leave them down
below in the comments I'm happy to help as far as I can obviously with that that
piece of troubleshooting there in terms of synchronizing your speakers that's
going to be relatively difficult for me to help with but you know I'm always
gonna try for you guys so again everyone thanks for watching and we'll see you
next time