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Reputation:

Android - What determines which devices my phone can cast to?

I'm making an app that should be able to cast to TV's (Android TV & Chromecast). I have experience with Android Development, but I am still at the learning point regarding google cast.

In my environment there are few TV's (5+),and when I open Youtube app on my phone, and select Cast button, device discovers couple of TV's (2-3, or more), but when I start my app and select Cast button, my app discovers only 1 TV (same TV every time).

I want to ask if someone can explain what determines which devices I can cast to? i.e. why youtube app discovers 3+ devices to cast to, and my app discovers only 1 device. It's the same phone, same environment (same TV's), same network.

Thanks in advance for any clarification on this.

EDIT

Smartphone: Sony Xperia L1 (G3311).

Here is some of the TV's I'm using:

I checked, all devices are on the same WI-FI network.

And this is even more confusing for me:

I don't know what is happening, what is causing this behaviour, so please I would really appreciate any help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 474

Answers (1)

Morrison Chang
Morrison Chang

Reputation: 12121

By themselves Samsung TVs run Tizen. In the Tizen App Store there is a YouTube client which I presume the YouTube Android phone app is connecting to (you may have paired them at some point, i.e. same login credentials).

While a TV set like Philips is running Android TV, from my understanding that the running the Chromecast receiver app isn't consistent. I searched on the model and didn't see that particular model has the "Works with Google Assistant" branding or any branding that it supports "Google Cast"/"Google Chromecast".

For example Sony has a page on updating the "Built in Chromecast" app: https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00114152

I would use that page as a guide and see if the Philips TV set has a Chromecast receiver app and is updated. My guess is that even if it does, it doesn't run the background correctly (and would have gotten the appropriate branding logos).

A similar situation exists for any Android TV box like MiBox, the Chromecast receiver app isn't consistent.

See this Reddit thread about the subject: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/74klxy/casting_to_mi_box/

If you are doing development work. I would advise at least one Google Chromecast device as a baseline since Google controls the software updates and built the hardware.

Upvotes: 1

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