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Bluetooth audio support for multiple devices with Chromecast

rusty42
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While it's possible to simultaneously connect multiple Bluetooth devices to a Chromecast with Google TV, it seems that the current Chromecast firmware only broadcast audio to the most recently connected device.

This behavior is quite the opposite to most modern Android and PC devices, where audio can be broadcasted to all connected Bluetooth devices for sharing multimedia with two or more people with wireless headphones. Given this is one of the latest Chromecast product releases, there was the expectation that's its Bluetooth capability would be at least on par for this modern use case.

For example when two people would like to watch the television without disturbing the rest of the house by listening to cast video via two Bluetooth headphones.

Note: discussion of external hardware workarounds such using third party Bluetooth transceivers are of no interest, as focusing on firmware upgrade that replicates the same Bluetooth functionality found in modern phones is be preferred.

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djtetei
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Not any issue or feature request can be resolved by a software update, because one has to take into consideration the hardware capabilities of the Bluetooth module installed in the Google Chromecast with Google TV.

While you can connect multiple Bluetooth devices to Google Chromecast with Google TV, it can only stream to only one device at a time.

So, if you want to use multiple Bluetooth headsets, you have to take into consideration a Bluetooth receiver peripheral with splitting capabilities.

In comparison, not even NVIDIA Shield has support for streaming Bluetooth to multiple devices simultaneously.

 

Connect Bluetooth devices 

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djtetei
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Not any issue or feature request can be resolved by a software update, because one has to take into consideration the hardware capabilities of the Bluetooth module installed in the Google Chromecast with Google TV.

While you can connect multiple Bluetooth devices to Google Chromecast with Google TV, it can only stream to only one device at a time.

So, if you want to use multiple Bluetooth headsets, you have to take into consideration a Bluetooth receiver peripheral with splitting capabilities.

In comparison, not even NVIDIA Shield has support for streaming Bluetooth to multiple devices simultaneously.

 

Connect Bluetooth devices 

Jeran
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Hey there,

Did you have any more questions or need any additional help? If not, I'll go ahead and lock up this thread in 24 hours.

Just checking up,
Jeran
 

Jeran
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey there!

We haven't heard back from rusty42, and it's been a few days, so I'm locking the thread. As always, feel free to make a new thread if you have any more questions or concerns.

Thank you for your help, djtetei!

Best regards,
Jeran