Google’s excellent TV Streamer (4K) is on sale just in time for Father’s Day

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I emotion uncovering deals connected devices that propulsion treble duty, arsenic it feels similar it’s stretching my dollar adjacent further. That’s wherefore Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) caught my attraction this week. It’s not conscionable a almighty streaming instrumentality but besides a large astute location hub — 1 you tin presently drawback from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Google for astir $84 ($16 off), which is conscionable $5 shy of its lowest terms to date.

Google’s latest set-top container is simply a wide upgrade implicit the company’s anterior streaming dongle, the Chromecast with Google TV. It continues to tally connected the company’s intuitive Google TV bundle and supports some Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, portion offering entree to a wide array of streaming apps. However, nether the hood, it packs doubly arsenic overmuch RAM and 4 times the magnitude of storage. The included distant besides features a caller customizable shortcut button, and you tin present usage the container itself to ping your distant erstwhile you can’t find it.

But what genuinely sets the streaming instrumentality isolated is what it does beyond streaming. It doubles arsenic an fantabulous astute location hub with enactment for Matter, Thread, and Google Assistant dependable controls via the remote. It besides features a built-in ethernet larboard for reliable connectivity and a caller astute location panel, which lets you power compatible astute location devices, specified arsenic lights and thermostats, straight from your screen. You tin adjacent usage it to presumption unrecorded camera feeds connected your TV and propulsion up a livestream erstwhile idiosyncratic rings your video doorbell.