Been using it for years with no issues and was working this morning, but this evening it won't connect to my router. Tried forgetting and reading it without any success. Anyone else having issues?

How can it be that the Chromecast (gen2) works perfectly fine with all apps, except the crap from Google? The shit started like 3 - 4 months ago...

Netflix app? Great!
Netflix browser? Great!
Pathé app? Great!
Pathé browser? Great!
F1TV app? Great!
F1TV browser? Great!

Youtube App? Nightmare, device doesn't show up, unless one of the apps above is connected...
Youtube browser? Even worse, device is found, but player never works, it says its connected, it says it is casting, but the cast doesn't even respond, no matter what browser nor device.

How can Google mess up all their stuff lately?

And more important, is there a solution for this YT nonsense?

So I tried booting up Chromecast 1st gen on my admittedly old TV but it would only bring me up to the G logo booting up sequence then the whole screen just turns black. Not even the setup screen appeared

But when I tried the same thing on my friend's newer LG TV, it did bring me all the way to the setup screen.

May I know if you have any idea what's going on?

I've attached an image of what is shown just before the screen turns black.

I recently installed the new disney+ app on my chromecast tv. Since then I cannot play anything!

It only shows "Something went wrong. Please try again." And tells me to contact their support.

Upon contacting them, I cannot have a guaranteed solution. In the end, they advised me to just screen mirror from different devices which is frustrating!

Can anyone help me with this. For context im in Asia and there's new Disney+ app with new UI.

Hi all, I'm hoping to get some help with a very irritating issue with my Google TV streamer.
If I've got something playing on my phone (usually Spotify), pressing the power button on my Google TV remote will pause the music on my phone.
There's also other interactions. For example, when I press play on my phone while something completely unrelated is playing on the TV, the thing on the TV will be paused, and vice versa.
This is really annoying as I often have music on my phone when giving my son a bath, for example, and my wife is downstairs watching TV. We end up in "pause battles" from across the house!
Does anyone know what's causing this and how to stop it?
This wasn't an issue before we moved house but nothing has changed in the setup, I literally just moved everything over and plugged it in how it was at the old house. Nothing new, no new settings that I know of.
So far I've only tried clearing spotify cache on both devices, and disabling HDMI-CEC (which didn't work so I've enabled it again).
Thanks in advance for any help!

I have two Chromecast HD devices, but when I try to screen mirror, it works on one and not on the other. Both are connected to the same Wi-Fi network and both are powered via the TV's USB port. How can I solve this? I have already tried resetting it to factory settings.

I cast and its just stuck that screen. If I let it sit eventually it just goes back to the homepage of the TV. Anyone know a fix?

Or is upgrading to Streamer the only way to support WPA3-SAE?

Thanks in advance.

I could use some help if anyone might be able too. I use the Google tv Chromecast running android tv 14.

So I went on vacation two weeks ago and when I returned something strange was changed. I have my system set up to turn off 20mins after inactivity. Before I went away this worked fine, never had any problems. After I returned when I'm watching a movie or YouTube video, after about a minute of the video being paused the screen turns on the ambient screensaver and after another minute the Chromecast turns off. This has never happened before, whenever I had a video paused it would just stay on the screen and dim a little bit. I can't even get up to use the bathroom anymore without the thing turning off, it only happens when watching a video also, when it's just sitting there on the menu it still takes 20mins to turn off. I can't adjust the timer for the ambient mode at all, there's no option for it in the settings and the auto shutoff option is still set to 20mins. I'm genuinely confused here, if anyone has any ideas It would be greatly appreciated. I'd love it to go back to not triggering the ambient mode at all when paused on a video.

I've gone through every setting in the device, each app, etc. googled for the past 2 days and am throwing in the towel to ask for help. Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Note: I use Kodi also and for whatever reason that's the only app it doesn't do this with, I assume it's because it has its own built in screensaver that overwrites the system one.

A few months ago I posted here about getting Soda Player working again. Since then, I've been building Spritz, a separate, free and open-source player for Macs with M1 chips or newer, inspired by that same simple idea: open your video and send it to your TV.

The latest preview focuses on casting:

• A fix for Cast playback crashing when subtitles were enabled.
• Improvements to resuming playback and keeping subtitles in sync.
• A simpler menu for choosing which device to play on.

It also includes AirPlay playback fixes and an optional LG TV app for changing audio and subtitles from the TV. The LG app needs to be installed manually.

No account or tracking. You bring your own files or links; Spritz doesn't provide any content.

It's still in testing. I've only tested it on one Mac and one TV with built-in casting, so standalone Chromecasts still need testing. Skipping through a video or changing audio/subtitles can jump back a few seconds.

The Mac app hasn't gone through Apple's security check for downloaded apps yet, so macOS blocks the first launch. Please read the installation notes before trying it.

If you try it, I'd appreciate hearing which Chromecast or TV you're using and how subtitles and skipping through videos work for you.

Source and setup instructions

Latest preview and downloads

Ive got a new to me problem with my chromecast and I don't know what to do. It worked fine this afternoon, I stopped streaming music off YouTube in the afternoon, and now in the evening it's bad.

So no app except YouTube find the chromecast. When I connect to YouTube it says that im connected, but I see that the chromecast logo is searching (the lines light up as it does when connecting) and the video plays on my phone with the text "connected to chromecast".

Ive restarted the phone, router and chromecast and I have factory reset it and hooked it up again. All apps are updated too. Still the same issue.

Anyone got a fix? ❤️

When you open YouTube app and browse your feed or whatever, you can add items to watch later or any other playlist with longpress of the remote middle navi button.

When video is actually playing you get the list of suggested videos on the list below. There you can NOT longpress the middle button, this always starts the video.

WHAT THE HELL?

Why am I posting here? Because the tvstreamer subreddits are dead.

turned it on today to find it looking like this, tried unplugging it and trying different hdmi ports, nothing.

I've been working on this for a while and this sub is probably the only place where people will care about the casting part as much as the games.

The TV shows the board, and anything you'd normally hide from the other players lives on your phone. In the word game your letters are on your phone. In the island trading game it's your resource cards. One person casts it from Chrome on Android or from the iPhone app, then everyone else scans a QR code on the TV to join. They don't need an account or an app.

A Chromecast thing I ran into that some of you might have seen too: Chromecast with Google TV and the Google TV Streamer would go to the screensaver in the middle of a game. disableIdleTimeout keeps the cast session alive, but the TV still decides nothing is playing and puts up the ambient photos. What finally fixed it was playing a silent 4 second video on loop behind the game. It's the same color as the background so you can't see it. Older Chromecasts never had the problem. If anyone knows a cleaner way I'd love to hear it.

There's a free demo that doesn't ask for a card. By yourself you can play chess, checkers, dominoes or sea battle against the computer, and with friends you can play a short game of the island one or the world map conquest one. The full games are paid (one-time or a small monthly subscription), but the demo is enough to see whether it works on your TV. It's also on Roku now and we're working through approval on Samsung, LG, Fire TV, and Android.

Mostly I want to hear what breaks, which TVs it doesn't work on, and what board games you'd want next.

tvtop.games

When I go to ambient screensaver settings, not all of my Google photo albums show up. Is there a way to refresh or sync it with my Google account?

I came across around 10 Chromecast 4k new in box. Where should I sell them? I was thinking eBay but their fees are crazy

My Chromecasts, which have slowly been getting worse and worse: connection issues lag,.. Now no longer show in my streaming apps, like YouTube. Confirmed on Android and iPhone, same Wi-Fi network. Last time it was some developer cert they let expire, is it something like this again or they finally killing the service? ​

Edit: rebooted my router, seems to have fixed it. False alarm!

The Legacy Chromecast Speaker Multi-Account Permission Bridge Guide: First-generation, Cast-enabled smart speakers and legacy hardware (such as the Jensen JSB-1000 or original Chromecast Audio adapters) are experiencing widespread connection deadlocks because legacy Cast APIs lack active software maintenance; trying to register multiple older units onto a single modern, heavily populated Google account triggers an infinite authentication loop and "ghost token" errors that cause the speakers to constantly kick each other offline. This technical workaround circumvents the firmware glitch entirely through an isolated multi-account architecture where you assign a separate, completely clean Google account to negotiate each speaker's network handshake independently to erase all data collisions before daisy-chaining master administrative permissions back to your main account profile to consolidate your entire dual-stereo network into a single casting group. To execute this configuration blueprint down in your basement sanctuary, you will need your two Jensen JSB-1000 Wood Monitors (measuring a compact 5.12" x 5.12" each), your Main Google Account, Two Fresh, Clean Google Accounts created purely as throwaways for this setup, and a smartphone running the Google Home App. To start, you must clear the environment by temporarily unplugging nearby active casting hubs, streaming boxes, or smart accessories to prevent your wireless router from cross-routing configuration data packets, then perform a hard factory reset on both speaker units to entirely flush any stale, corrupted authentication logs or old Wi-Fi profiles from their internal storage cache. Next, isolate the channels by plugging in your Left Speaker to wall power while leaving your Right Speaker completely unplugged to prevent the two legacy wireless antennas from signal-jamming each other during initial discovery. Once the hardware foundation is cleared, launch the Google Home app on your phone, sign completely out of your main profile, log in with your first new clean throwaway Google account, and execute the standard device addition wizard; because this clean account carries zero historical cloud data or device clutter, the legacy Jensen firmware will easily negotiate a clean, stable security token and lock onto your home Wi-Fi network. Immediately swap the hardware by unplugging your Left Speaker, plugging in your Right Speaker, waiting for its boot sequence to steady, switching your phone's Google Home app over to your second clean throwaway Google account, and running the setup wizard again to anchor the right monitor to your network on its own isolated data track to completely bypass the token collision bug. To deploy the master permission bridge, stay inside the Google Home app under your second clean account profile, open the Home settings menu, send an official Home Member Invite straight to your Main Google Account, then switch the app back over to your first clean account profile and repeat the exact same track to send a secondary Home Member Invite straight to your Main Google Account. Now you can consolidate the entire tree by signing completely out of the throwaway profiles, logging back into your Main Google Account, opening your incoming email notifications to accept both invites, and claiming full administrative manager control over both speaker profiles directly inside your main Google Home app dashboard where both speakers will now show up as fully active, authorized devices under your primary account tree. Simply select them both to construct a brand-new, unified Speaker Group (like your custom "basment speaker 2"), launch Spotify or your preferred audio workspace, tap the devices menu, select your newly unified group profile, and stream your tracks using the native Wi-Fi Casting Protocol. For ongoing system maintenance, remember that legacy hardware remains highly sensitive to network variance, which can occasionally cause a brief audio glitch or channel lag in your right monitor speaker; avoid running complex software resets and simply deploy your classic high-efficiency manual override by completely unplugging the speakers from their power extenders for two minutes to clear the internal hardware cache, then plug them back in to instantly re-anchor the Wi-Fi casting stream. By choosing native Wi-Fi Casting over a compressed Bluetooth stream, you bypass your phone's physical distance limitations and allow the speakers to pull raw, uncompressed digital files directly from streaming servers over a high-bandwidth pipeline, which preserves maximum low-end transient punch and pristine vocal clarity without sound quality loss—even if the main app network experiences a massive external outage like the one yesterday.

I use a Wiim streaming box, playing YT Music on Android, with ChromeCast. Holy crap, in the past week or so I just can't get a connection to last. I'll start playing, then it'll just stop in the middle of a song. Sometimes I can get it to reconnect.

On occasion, after a few failures, I just can't get it to connect. Complete failure.

Hasn't been a great month for music.

Anybody else, or is this a problem just for me?