So I get a number of questions about the Chromecast series in general, and what I
wanted to do today was actually answer: What is Google Chromecast Audio, and how
does that work? So if you're looking for a little bit of
information. You've seen this device in stores or online, and you want to
understand those things, then let's get going.
So the first question "What is Google Chromecast Audio?" is relatively easy to
answer. This is what you'd call a dongle device, or just a very small device that
you plug into the wall via a USB cable, that then goes into a USB power port, and then
is powered through that. Then from there, you have a 3.5 millimeter speaker
connector on the Chromecast Audio dongle itself, and then that 3.5 millimeter
speaker cable goes into any speaker with a 3.5 millimeter input. Now obviously you
could take that 3.5 millimeter speaker connector you have here, and then you
could convert it using a number of, just either Y type connectors, or
stereo to RCA, or whatever you have for a speaker. So you could do that and it
would actually pump in the sound into whatever type of speaker you wanted.
Now that's what the Chromecast Audio physically is. How does it work is a bit
more of an interesting discussion. what you'll essentially need is the Google
Home application, an account with Google, and once you have those two things on,
say an iPhone or an Android device, (you can use a tablet whatever you want)
really once you have that application, you're going to be able to cast
different sources of audio to the speaker that is
connected. So you will essentially be able to, through Wi-Fi in your home,
connect any speaker to your Wi-Fi, and therefore all of these different sources
of either music or podcasts or whatever you'd like to listen to. Going a little
deeper into how it works. It's essentially going to connect to wifi, the device
itself has a little wireless transmitter and receiver. It's going to receive
information through your internet at home, so you will need Wi-Fi, and then
from there it's going to transmit the audio signal it's pulling through
whatever Google Home service or Google Play service. Such as Spotify or any of the different
music services you can push through your Google Home application. It's going to
receive it onto the dongle, and then push
it through the 3.5 millimeter speaker cable out to your speaker. So it really
just allows you to create multi-room audio.
Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a demonstration next to a
number of Google Home devices that I have. I'm going to use Google Play Music
to control all three of these speakers and I've actually placed my Chromecast
Audio into a group so that all three will play at the same time. This is how
the device works, and obviously if you need a demo and you want to see how it works I
have another video for that and I'll put it up in the top right, right now, for you
to go ahead click on and go watch how to set it up.
*music*
Other than that, I think this gives you a good overview of what the device
does, and how it works. If you have any other questions, of course leave those in
the comments below. Otherwise, thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.