In this video, Handyguys Brian and Paul talk about the benefits of using the Onkyo
How It Works
The receiver has Chromecast built into it as well as the technology to stream music right to the box from a Google Home technology. However, Handyguy Paul explains the you do not need a Google Home device to stream to the Onkyo receiver. Rather, you are able to control the receiver from the Google Home application on your phone.
Setting It Up
You are able to name the receiver whatever suite your needs from the app on your smart home device (bedroom receiver, living room receiver, basement receiver etc.). For the purposes of this video, Handyguys Brian and Paul name the receiver “Onkyo Receiver” on their device.
Using Your Onkyo Receiver
Just as you would a Google Home, you instruct your smart phone application to cast music onto the Onkyo Receiver. The receiver will then know how to switch to its net input, which can be a streaming option such as Pandora or Chromecast. In this video, Onkyo
You are able to control the music choice and loudness from the application on your smart phone. You are also able to do all control the Onkyo and casting capabilities with an official Google Home Device.
The Onkyo Receiver
I have an onkyo tx-nr686 with chromecast built-in. Your article and onkyo’s info talk about audio streaming through it’s chromecast built-in but not about audio/video streaming. Does Onkyo’s Chromecast Built-in handle video and audio ?
No video, it is the equivalent of Google Chromecast Audio.
I also have a TX-NR686 and I was told by the salesman that you can cast video through WiFi. I wish Onkyo had some instructions on how to set this up. If anyone knows where the documentation is for this can you post a link?
The salesperson was incorrect (or unknowledgeable) as the Chromecast-Built-In is only for casting audio.
Best you can do is get a chrome cast and plug it into the av receiver
Is anyone able to chromecast to Onkyo receiver (TX-NR676 for me) after the April 2019 firmware update? It broke chromecast for me, and I’m trying to verify if there is any way to make it work again.
It’s actually an absence of firmware update. The chromecast on the nr676 does not talk to contemporary chromecast devices. I wrote a little zeroconf script in python that let me see all the devices on my network and the Onkyo is there, just talking to itself.
Unfortunately, Onkyo appear to be the absolute worst at non-audio hardware and software, down to having an open webserver on port 80 you can use to upload firmware. I posted a demo of changing the firmware to replace we’ve instance of “onkyo” with “hackd” on onkyo’s forums and got zip for reaction.
Thanks for this guys.
I was trying to work out what the “built in chromecast” meant. It just means:
* The Chromecast Audio device that used to be built in. The title should be “Chromecast audio built in”.
I see it turns the input over which is cool. A Chromecast Audio device can’t do this. It was so dumb Google killed the Chromecast Audio.
“Chromecast built in” doesn’t mean:
* Chromecast Video: So no casting from the receiver to a video input (tip plug an actual Chromecast into the receiver).
* Google Assistant: There are no Mics so you can’t talk to the Receiver directly. Pioneer’s “Works with Google Assistant” is so misleading.