I have a CCwGTV that I tried to pair using Bluetooth to my V1 Google Home to use it with my projector.
This worked well, with no audio lag, but I had to re-pair EVERY SINGLE TIME I used the projector. I tried to get support for it here, and I was told by @Jeran that the engineers don't design the CCwGTV to stay connected to the Google Home for me to use together - working as designed, which is to say, awfully, and not inline with basic expectations about how Bluetooth should work or how Google devices should work with each other.
So, I bought a soundbar that had an option to leave in always-on mode to keep it paired to the CCwGTV.
This worked well, with no audio lag, and it stayed paired to the CCwGTV through power cycles on the CCwGTV/Projector.
However, immediately after pairing the CCwGTV with a pair of Pixel Buds, CCwGTV no longer connects to the soundbar automatically.
Further, when I pull out the Pixel Buds from their case, the CCwGTV ALSO doesn't automatically connect to them.
This is total garbage from Google on numerous Google products and basic Bluetooth functionality that doesn't work in the same way that people expect across all their other devices. Given that I'm trying to create connections amongst 3 Google-owned products, you'd think that would be reasonable.
These issues with Bluetooth are consistent among users of GGWGTV, and people are resorting to side-loading a third-party app on their CCwGTV to get around the issue of this terrible implementation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/jh0wu6/if_you_use_bluetooth_headphones_you_seriously/
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The behavior I would expect is that the CCwGTV would either stay paired or automatically pair to the sound bar when I turn it on, every single time without fail. When I take out the Pixel Buds from their case, I would expect the CCwGTV to disconnect from the sound bar and pair to the Buds. When I put the Buds back in their case, I would expect the CCwGTV to connect to the sound bar.
The actual behavior of the CCwGTV is to do jack sh*t, just ignoring all bluetooth devices, unless/until you navigate through a maze of menus to get to the pairing menu and force the connection. Every other Bluetooth-compatible device will hunt for a last-paired device to connect to and reconnect fairly aggressively to whatever device it can find. Why doesn't CCwGTV follow this basic functionality?
I'm seriously beginning to hate the entire Google ecosystem of products for their complete inattention to the details that people praise the Apple ecosystem for getting right. The more open nature of Google/Android isn't worth it when bugs are designed INTO the system like this.
