How to get roon on the google home?
Two ways ⌠You can cast to a Google Home which is fine as a simple lo-fi endpoint or if you have the display model, you can turn on the cast display function. I use that in my kitchen ⌠so when I play Roon through the Sonos in our family room or kitchen the Home Hub kicks on with whatâs playing as a nice indicator. I generally do not output Roon audio to the Google Home products and have them all all over the house.
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As soon as you put one on the same network as your Roon Core machine, it should just show up. Iâm always amazed at how good the tiny speaker in the Mini sounds. By the way, you can use voice commands like âpauseâ or ânextâ to control the audio stream when youâre playing to one of these.
Be aware that the Google Hub screen will show Roon ânow playingâ for a time but will infuriatingly revert to its âambient modeâ (photos or clock face depending on your settings) after about 15 minutes. Roon are aware of this but I think it is more of a Google issue from what I can remember from other posts on the subject.
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Iâve found it will revert if you interrupt the GHH with a command like a kitchen timer ⌠so itâs there but think itâs more of an active state challenge for now playing / casts
Can anyone confirm for a certainty that this works with the Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max?
Works for ~15 minutes on the Nest Hub, and then the Hub goes back to showing the time.
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Roon support for Google Home has me a bit frustratedâŚunless Iâm doing something wrong.
Problem 1: Google Home screens time out and stop displaying Roon information after some seemingly unspecific time, but usually long before I want it to. I donât have this problem with any other music apps.
Problem 2: I canât control Roonâs volume for that Zone with the volume rocker on my phone or smart watch as I can do with other apps. Now this isnât a deal breakerâŚand I know probably sounds entitled (wait but this is the Roon forum! haha) but it would really be convenient to just reach in my pocket or touch my watch and change volume without having to unlock, wait for Roon app to find core again, and then touch the tiny fiddly up/down buttons.
Problem 3: I donât have this problem on my iPad, but many times on my Android phones, when waking up the screen and looking at Roon app, it has this reconnecting to Core screen (mentioned above) that takes a moment. Pretty annoying and doesnât happen on iPad. Doesnât happen if the screen doesnât go to sleep. Wonder whatâs up with that?
I just picked up 3 Google Home at $29 each.
Set up 2 in kitchen as stereo pairâŚit took a while.
Then went to Roon audio settings/device set up and it was called âGoogle Cast GroupââŚstereo!!!
I played a test track with separate left and right sounds and it worked.
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Shame you cant use DSP on grouped non RAAT zones as you could make one left only and one right only using procedural EQ and get a stereo pair out of them.