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Chromecast with Google TV chromecast function works despite parental lock

styx66 — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 23:56:15 GMT

I picked up a couple of Chromecast with Google TVs for my kids in order to take control over screen times while allowing them TV in their rooms.

The parental controls work fine for Google TV, but they are still able to use their google home mini's to cast programs to their TV and it completely ignores the set bed time on the profile. I found one watching TV at 1am the other night. They say they just ask google to play and it does.

Needless to say this is a pretty serious product flaw. Is there any way to force the device to respect the bed time hours for all functions, or disable the ability to chromecast to the device at all?

Re: Chromecast with Google TV chromecast function works despite parental lock

David_K — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:01:13 GMT

Do you have a downtime schedule turned on in the Google Home app for those speakers?

Temporarily turn off Google Assistant - Google Nest Help

Re: Chromecast with Google TV chromecast function works despite parental lock

Jeran — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:25:23 GMT

Thank you for helping out on this thread, David!

Hey there styx66,

I'm just checking up on this thread, do you have any more questions or need any additional help?

Best regards,
Jeran

Re: Chromecast with Google TV chromecast function works despite parental lock

Jeran — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:13:24 GMT

Hey there styx66,

Do you have any more questions that we can address?

Thank you,
Jeran

Re: Chromecast with Google TV chromecast function works despite parental lock

Jeran — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:40:34 GMT

Hey styx66,

Do you have any more questions that we can address? If not, I'll go ahead and lock up this thread in 24 hours.

Just checking up,
Jeran