Comment on Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Hopefully, the company can send out a server-side fix in short order.
The Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio are two of Google’s oldest devices, with both announced at the same event in September of 2015.
Yeah those are likely considered dead and abandoned by google, they will probably not give a shit about it.
I bought a Chromecast Audio right before they were discontinued, trying to get in while I still could. It’s the only way I cast to a wired speaker system from the 80s that works reliably.
I loved the convenience but I will not go along with their cash grabs. I will not buy their new product because they took away the old one that was still working.
They were discontinued because they lost a patent case. This one I won’t blame on Google… cept maybe for their legal team not flagging it for patent infringement.
that’s good to know at least, I always thought it was because they wanted to push more smart speakers
Just looked it up. It was with Sonos. It was also when they removed the ability to stream to multiple devices at once (I think that changed , but got rid of a lot of my chrome speakers due to the decline in recognition.)
I have to think there’s some project out there where you could plug a 3.5 to RCA adapter into a Pi and use it in a similar fashion. Maybe would need a bridge app from the ‘cast’ function to connect to it, but I expect not impossible.
I’ve tried it but the audio quality was absolutely atrocious on the first pi generations at least. I got a hat from a third party for it.
The computational capacity of the first gen compared to current gen is huge. As such, there are a few popular projects that try to be an everything-streamer
Phelpssan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Comments from Google accounts on Twitter and Reddit say they are working on a fix.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Cool, seems they’re less assholes about this that their usual MO would suggest which is a nice change of pace.