Google’s Quick Pairing technology for Bluetooth devices, Fast Pair, will take the leap from phones to TVs and players with Android TV: Google has confirmed that it will be available in the coming weeks. Thanks to Fast Pair, it will be much easier to listen to the sound of movies and series through Bluetooth headphones.
An Android TV allows you to watch a huge amount of media content through apps, you can even play games directly on the TV. The image and sound are reproduced on the large screen, although the sound can also be routed to the speakers or, in the case of not wanting to disturb, to the headphones. The ideal is to use Bluetooth because the cable to the sofa can be cumbersome. And the pairing itself will soon be less cumbersome.
Android TV will detect nearby Bluetooth devices
Quick pair on Android TV. Image by 9to5Google
Using Fast Pair greatly simplifies the process of adding Bluetooth devices to an Android phone because the mobile itself detects compatible accessories nearby. To do this, a message appears in the form of a lower card: just press it for the headphones, and other Bluetooth accessories, to be paired.
If in Android Fast Pair this greatly facilitates the pairing of new devices, in Android TV the task will be even more useful: synchronize a Bluetooth headset on the TV involves difficulties with settings and remote control. With Fast Pair, it will be a thing of the past.
As Google reported in the Android News of 2022, Fast Pair is on its way to reaching Android TV devices, also Chromecast with Google TV (it will surely arrive first in Google Player). With said Fast Pair, televisions and players detect nearby Bluetooth LE accessories Notification with a card on the screen so that the user can pair them with a single click on the remote control.
After Bluetooth devices are paired with Android TV the TV or player will use them once they are connected near you. Fast Pair is compatible with most current bluetooth headphones, it also adds compatibility with game controllers and other control devices.
Quick pair on an Android mobile
Google did not specify when Fast Pair will arrive on Android TV: it is only commenting that will expand it over the next few weeks. Its arrival will surely be via an update of Google Play services: you have to be patient.
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