# How to make Homey turn off a chromecast TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** Devices\ **Created:** [January 15, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202 "2021-01-15T22:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pennybridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pennybridge/32/7201_2.png) [@pennybridge](https://community.homey.app/u/pennybridge)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/1 "2021-01-15T22:08:00Z")
Any idea how to make Homey turn off a TV with Chromecast through a flow? ---
**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/2 "2021-01-15T22:27:37Z")
As power off is not an option for Chromecast devices you have to think in other options. - Smart TV IR app (depending on location Homey vs TV) - learnned IR (same) - Smart TV App (lnetwork connected, ike for fe Samsung and LG) - Power Plug, (worst case) ---
**Author:** ![Edwin\_D](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/edwin_d/32/136417_2.png) [@Edwin\_D](https://community.homey.app/u/Edwin_D)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/3 "2021-01-16T11:44:37Z")
Or A Logitech Hub or Elite. Pretty neat, but very expensive. ---
**Author:** ![pennybridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pennybridge/32/7201_2.png) [@pennybridge](https://community.homey.app/u/pennybridge)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/4 "2021-01-16T13:31:54Z")
Yeah I got that for my main TV but this one is in my bedroom. I guess the best option would be to go with a smart plug in this case as this is a quite old TV. Just want it to shut off during night or when everyone leaves the house. Thanks all! At least now I know I dont have to try the Chromecast route anylonger šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Retrospected](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/retrospected/32/9487_2.png) [@Retrospected](https://community.homey.app/u/Retrospected)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/5 "2021-01-16T13:54:30Z")
Well actually, i noticed that my Chromecast is able to turn off my TV using Google Home. Iā€™ve named my chromecast simply ā€œTVā€ and when i use the voice command: _Hey google turn off the tv_ my TV is turned off, regardless which input device it is using. This probably uses HDMI-CEC to send the TV OFF signal. It also works to turn the TV on again. However unfortunately there is no Homey Chromecast Action Card to do this. I have a sony bravia kdl720ex in combination with a 2nd gen chromecast. ---
**Author:** ![pennybridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pennybridge/32/7201_2.png) [@pennybridge](https://community.homey.app/u/pennybridge)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/6 "2021-01-16T15:06:17Z")
Yes that works fine and has always worked fine here tooā€¦ Each night I say either ā€œHey google, turn on the bedroom TVā€ or ā€œTurn off theā€¦ā€. The issue is that there is no support for it through the Homey chromecast app. My workaround idea was to make Homey tell Google assistant something. But that does not work eitherā€¦ It only works the other way around ā€œTell Homey toā€¦ā€ but I cant tell Homey something like ā€œTell Google Assistant to Turn off the bedroom TVā€. That would had solved lots of things šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Retrospected](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/retrospected/32/9487_2.png) [@Retrospected](https://community.homey.app/u/Retrospected)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/7 "2021-01-16T18:17:56Z")
Do you have any other programmable device connected to your TV? I have a raspberry pi connected that i use in combination with Kodi. I use this pi to invoke the cec commands that I wantā€¦ you do have to set up something with a sshclient to invoke the remote command though. Turning your tv on: `echo 'on 0' | /usr/osmc/bin/cec-client -s -d 1` Turning your tv off: `echo 'standby 0' | /usr/osmc/bin/cec-client -s -d 1` ---
**Author:** ![pennybridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pennybridge/32/7201_2.png) [@pennybridge](https://community.homey.app/u/pennybridge)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/8 "2021-01-16T21:49:21Z")
Thanks for the tip. I do not have anything else connected however. Would be so good if the chromecast app developer could add it instead, so that it would be user friendly šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Retrospected](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/retrospected/32/9487_2.png) [@Retrospected](https://community.homey.app/u/Retrospected)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/9 "2021-01-16T23:14:04Z")
Athom is the developer of this specific appā€¦ i dont see the project on their public repo anymore for some reason but based on an old fork they seem to use [this](https://github.com/alxhotel/chromecast-api/) nodejs library. Looking at that library i dont see any support to turn devices on/off. long story short: dont count on it. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![pennybridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pennybridge/32/7201_2.png) [@pennybridge](https://community.homey.app/u/pennybridge)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/10 "2021-01-17T00:15:41Z")
Thanks for digging in to it. And no simple way to make Homey execute Google assistant commands either as far as I know, so I guess it is a stupid ā€œsmart plugā€ then ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![MarcoRuiter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcoruiter/32/33528_2.png) [@MarcoRuiter](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcoRuiter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/11 "2021-01-17T05:57:03Z")
Chromecast has full support Cec and does fully supports turning off a hdmi device aka tv The athom chromecast app doesnā€™t support it Home assistant has support from in since chromecast supported dev fully (mid 2017) Other platforms all have support for it if they support chromecast You should raise a issue at athom support ---
**Author:** ![Retrospected](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/retrospected/32/9487_2.png) [@Retrospected](https://community.homey.app/u/Retrospected)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/12 "2021-01-17T13:20:44Z")
they are figuring out support for this feature in HA [here](https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/pychromecast/issues/196): same for OpenHab [here](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/4516) so those platforms also dont support this as of yet ---
**Author:** ![MarcoRuiter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcoruiter/32/33528_2.png) [@MarcoRuiter](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcoRuiter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/13 "2021-01-17T13:37:11Z")
Strange then that HA does this flawlessly in my cabin setup. Must admin I use xiaomi chromecast stick there . Nevertheless I can turn of my little ones tv off. Itā€™s a flatscreen non smart no power plug only has a google chromecast When I type in homey app chat turn off TvMylo it turns of the tv thru the chromecast by cec So somewhere there is something that pushes the command to the google chromecast ---
**Author:** ![MarcoRuiter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcoruiter/32/33528_2.png) [@MarcoRuiter](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcoRuiter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/14 "2021-01-17T13:38:04Z")
Turn on isnā€™t possible yet ---
**Author:** ![tarumaycry](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tarumaycry/32/34267_2.png) [@tarumaycry](https://community.homey.app/u/tarumaycry)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/15 "2021-01-18T20:39:59Z")
HDMICEC support would be amazing ---
**Author:** ![Timothyvisual](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/timothyvisual/32/134075_2.png) [@Timothyvisual](https://community.homey.app/u/Timothyvisual)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/16 "2021-01-19T21:58:33Z")
Hi guys, maybe it is stating the obviousā€¦ My TV goes on when I put the plug in the wall outlet. So I use a cheap sonoff tasmota relay switch($8,-) to turn my tv on and off. ---
**Author:** ![MarcoRuiter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcoruiter/32/33528_2.png) [@MarcoRuiter](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcoRuiter)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/17 "2021-01-20T04:54:15Z")
problem is others cant turn it on again without homey app ---
**Author:** ![pennybridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pennybridge/32/7201_2.png) [@pennybridge](https://community.homey.app/u/pennybridge)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 7:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/18 "2021-01-20T07:24:30Z")
You can have a remote / smart button / whatever else to trigger the on/off function so actually I think this is the only option right now. I will go with a smart plug. But yeah it is not the solution. It is the workaround rather. ---
**Author:** ![WeWillSee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wewillsee/32/120753_2.png) [@WeWillSee](https://community.homey.app/u/WeWillSee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 7:11am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-make-homey-turn-off-a-chromecast-tv/41202/19 "2026-01-28T07:11:58Z")
Is their a way or an app to control chromecast more via Homey. I donā€™t really see any navigating buttons. would like to see if i can use homey as a remote control so i can replace the googel home app completely.