Chromecast - cannot create a thing for Android Tablet

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I have a wall mounted Android Tablet which I want to use for playing a sound when the bell rings.
The problem is I cannot create a thing for the tablet. A scan does not find the tablet and when manually adding I get an error message (communication refused). Setting log level to debug or trace did not provide any further details.
On the tablet I have installed Google Home App.

Is there anything else I need to do?

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That’s because an Android tablet isn’t a Chromecast device. Installing the Google Home app just enables it to control Chromecasts, it doesn’t turn the tablet into one.

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ok. many thanks.
do you know of any other way to output sound on a remote tablet?
currently I have habpanel running in a separate browser tab which receives audio via playSound webaudio rules command

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I’ve no idea, but if you’re using HabPanel, try HabPanelViewer. There’s lots of discussion about it in the community.

If you’re using OH3, you must use this unreleased version (0.9.27pre).

http://github.com/vbier/habpanelviewer/raw/master/app-debug.apk

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