FWIW, I have chromecasts, fire sticks and rokus on my TV’s. I have found the Harmony to be the best at allowing my Google Home to control various aspects of them. Without it, your really limiting yourself to a single ecosystem. I like being able to “cast” things to the tv when I want. I also like the interfaces of the fire stick and the roku. I haven’t had issues with my Google home and home automation in quite awhile. Granted, in the beginning, it was a struggle but Google seems to be on track now. My kids have the Amazon echos and personally, I think the Google is better at recognizing commands where they echo likes them to be fairly rigid. The Google home also seems better at just general information retrieval. Just my opinion.
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