Chromecast with google TV choices to integrate with Control4 - IRUSB (Crashes) / Google Driver (extremely slow)

[zg825]

I have chromecast with google TV set up on 3 of my tv's. My installer first put on IRUSB which was fast, but I found several faults with it over the course of a week. Our home flickered in power and the waiting 5 minutes for it to reboot was painful.  In addition, at 3 times, the IRUSB would "fail" and need to be restarted through chromecast. I had to find the chromecast remote and then go over to the IRUSB app to restart it.  

 

I then had my installer put on Chowmain google driver. While some items seemed to work better, the time delay was very painful.  Trying to channel surf or go through plex on it was terrible and made for a terrible customer experience. 

 

Now i'm left with what i see are 3 choices: Change over to Roku (but the chromecast UI is vastly better), use IRUSB, or stick with the google driver.

How are others getting around this IRUSB issue which sounds like the better option? If it was just the 5 minute reboot, then I could probably get over it, but if it crashes multiple times, then its kinda pointless.   

[Amr]

On 7/24/2021 at 4:14 AM, zg825 said:

I have chromecast with google TV set up on 3 of my tv's. My installer first put on IRUSB which was fast, but I found several faults with it over the course of a week. Our home flickered in power and the waiting 5 minutes for it to reboot was painful.  In addition, at 3 times, the IRUSB would "fail" and need to be restarted through chromecast. I had to find the chromecast remote and then go over to the IRUSB app to restart it.  

 

I then had my installer put on Chowmain google driver. While some items seemed to work better, the time delay was very painful.  Trying to channel surf or go through plex on it was terrible and made for a terrible customer experience. 

 

Now i'm left with what i see are 3 choices: Change over to Roku (but the chromecast UI is vastly better), use IRUSB, or stick with the google driver.

How are others getting around this IRUSB issue which sounds like the better option? If it was just the 5 minute reboot, then I could probably get over it, but if it crashes multiple times, then its kinda pointless.   

I have IrUSB working with 3 x MiBox’s without an issue, used to have it working with FireTV until they finally released OS3 driver a month ago, I don’t experience what you currently have, are U on latest firmware for IrUSB (225 I guess)?