Early last month, we started seeing the option to include Google Homes and Assistant-enabled speakers in rooms inside the Home app, just like you would for your lights and switches and thermostats. Now it seems that option has propagated to Android TV devices as well.

Artem spotted it this morning: in his Google Home app, his two SHIELD TVs appear in the Home control tab, under the Assistant section. Tapping on them lets him assign them to a room. Technically, that should allow him to turn on and off the TV along with the lights for example. That's one advantage I can think of.

Although I have a SHIELD TV with Assistant, I don't see this option in my Home app, so the option might either be still rolling out ... or it could be that it's not showing for me because I've disabled always-on listening on my SHIELD's controller? I don't know.