Recent content by Phil Schroeder

I got a free Chromecast with my Google Home purchase. While I've found it to be neat to give voice commands to watch something on Netflix or put something up on my TV from my phone for some reason I envisioned that Chromecast also had a general interface like Roku in addition to the screencast...

TLDR: I basically have a two-part question. One, what have you guys found to be some of the best uses for your Google Home? Second, what have you found to be some of your best devices or systems to connect with the Home? I just got a Home and already have a Pixel, Chromecast, and Google Wifi...

Thanks, SpookDroid. I feel like now that I've gone down this rabbit hole, I really don't understand what is so compelling about Google Home or Alexa. To me it seems more valuable to the company to get more data. But ultimately just having something I talk to answer a question for me, add...

I am a pretty avid Google fan. I have a Pixel and had two nexus devices before that and I'm on Project Fi. I also recently hooked up Google WiFi and love it. My next foray is replacing my functional but annoying Lowes IRIS system. I would like to get Google Home and use this to mostly give me...