Home Local Device Issue Leads to Embarrassing Conversation

[Kigosama]

I have a Sony Bravia TV running Android TV in the master bedroom. I also have several Nest cameras and replaced a Nest doorbell which forced me to start using the Google Home app instead of the Nest App. My issue with the home app is that every time we turn on this TV in the master bedroom, the TV appears under devices --> local devices and under the favorites tab where the kiddos go to look at the cameras.

My biggest issue is that the name of the media being played on that TV is clearly displayed in both locations. So when Mommy and daddy wanna watch something not appropriate for family consumption, the kids can see what the name displayed. We discovered this when my oldest child asked one morning what a particular phrase meant. My wife and I both recognized what he was referring to and we both **bleep** near choked on our breakfast cereal that morning. Ever since then, we make sure the kiddos have been in bed for a few hours before we watch anything scandalous. However, I'm still worried that a kiddo might make up scared in the middle of the night, check the cameras (which has happened), and see something we'd rather not explain for a few years.

I have followed several articles that all day the same thing. Click and hold the devices name and delete device. This option does not exist for this TV nor any of the other visible TVs. 

I find this incredibly frustrating because the **bleep** doorbell is what forced us to change to the Home App and now the home app has breached our privacy and made it so that mommy and daddy have to worry five times as much whenever we might want to spice things up. Bad enough having a kid banging on the bedroom door at 12:00 a.m. because of monsters under the bed, but this is twice as bad as that. This is a huge issue for our household. I do not want to explain to my 6 year old what a "big wet a##" is ever again.

There should be an easy and obvious way to hide this TV, but this product either doesn't have it or is so poorly designed that it buried five menus deep.

Please tell me there is a way to address this without ripping out all of my Nest products, tossing them in the trash, and replacing them with Ring devices.

I appreciate the input.

[David_K]

It's because your TV is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your kids devices. Even if you've not added your kids to the home, those devices appear as "local devices" in their Google Home app as you've seen, and they can see what is being played. Unfortunately, this is working as intended, which isn't great in this situation for sure.

Firstly, there is no way to hide the TV or it's media playback, I can confirm that for you, so I thought of a couple of options that might help.

1. If you don't need them to have access to the Google Home app for other purposes, use the parental control features for iOS or Android to not allow them to install the Google Home app.
2. Another option would be to see if your Wi-Fi router has the option to create a different Wi-Fi network (usually called a guest network). If it can, you could change the Wi-Fi on your kid's devices to that Wi-Fi network and they would no longer see your devices in the Google Home app.