audiovisual Mini LED TV
Once you've turned the TV on, Google TV and the Google Home app take over the set-up process, which is convenient in many ways, if not all. You gain the most benefit if you already have a Google Home, i.e. if you use the Google Home app (right) with various Googlable devices within it. The TV then appears as a device to be set up: you allocate the Home and the Room, and can then share your current Wi-Fi with the TV without all that tedious typing in of passwords. Once joined, you can use Google Home for basic controls, including a virtual remote control.
Here we did experience a downside to handing set-up over to Google Home: it rarely works perfectly. When it got to the Wi-Fi connection, for example, the TV announced it was connected. But the Google Home app said it had failed and we should try again. We had no choice — we had to keep using the app to get through the set-up, so we had to do it again. Happily the second time it worked and we could move on.
Then, after a firmware update — quite long, this, perhaps 20 minutes — the TV asked which Wi-Fi network we'd like to connect to. Well, the one you're already attached to, we replied, the TV havingjust downloaded an update. When we selected it again, ‘ah!’ said
