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It was surprising to me, but our TV's remote control is able to pauze/play/stop the Chromecast. That's generally faster than using your phone. Edit: FWIW it's
by smhg 8y ago
It was surprising to me, but our TV's remote control is able to pauze/play/stop the Chromecast.
That's generally faster than using your phone.
Edit: FWIW it's a Sony TV.
- nwellnhof 8y agoThat's just another application of HDMI CEC, just like controlling a DVD/Bluray player with your TV remote.
- amiga-workbench 8y agoIs it just me who is bothered how every OEM has some weird and wonderful CEC rebrand? Sony calls theirs Bravia Sync for example.
- moftz 8y agoIt's to trick people into thinking they can only buy a Sony Blu-ray player to go along with their Sony TV to go along their Sony soundbar. I'm glad everyone's stuff gets along for the most part but the fake vendor lock-in is lame.
- jimmyspice 8y agoI think any TV with HDMI-CEC should work. it's also how it turns on your TV and switches to the correct input before hand. as an aside I think Google home users leverage this to turn on their TV, which I think is pretty cool
- rags2riches 8y agoYes, that took me far too long to learn.
- geolgau 8y agoThat was no surprise for me, after using XBMC/Kodi for a few years with CEC support through HDMI. It was so natural to just pause/resume from the remote control that now I'm surprised people didn't know about this.
- kalleboo 8y agoYeah I use CEC to control our Apple TV. Never understood why everyone was complaining about the new Apple TV touch remote - we just use the TV remote. And our TV is like 8 years old now.