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Hi Folks,
I got in on the gold rush and got a chromecast from my local bestbuy. The thing works beautifully and flawlessly for streaming you tube and chrome tabs, bute when it cones to casting netflix....thats when all hell breaks loose....
No matter what device laptops (win7 and 8), phone (android), tablet (android)....while casting netflix the chromecast is stuck on the initial red loading screen and best of all takes my network down....till i unplug the chromecast!
So now, not only am i stuck with a chromecast that does not cast netflix but resetting my router over and over again everytime I try casting netflix.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Just FYI: I am using a D-Link DI-524 as the router, 2.4 GHz bandwidth.
Have tried signing out of netflix on every device, then factory resetting the cc, signing back into netflix.
Factory resetting my router, resetting my network, also the modem...... Nothing works!!!!!
Thanks in advance for all those who help.
I'm having the same problem. Only I can actually play a video, for about ten minutes, and then it takes my network down. What it seems to do is, the Chromecast makes it's own network and all my devices try to connect to that instead. I've noticed that toggling airplane mode will make it reconnect to my network, but the problem persists.
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mrminor13 said:
I'm having the same problem. Only I can actually play a video, for about ten minutes, and then it takes my network down. What it seems to do is, the Chromecast makes it's own network and all my devices try to connect to that instead. I've noticed that toggling airplane mode will make it reconnect to my network, but the problem persists.
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Find the "chromecast" network in your network settings for you other devices and click forget network. Then you won't need autolysin mode. Trying to connect to the network Chromecast creates won't help anything. The android Chromecast app will automagically connect to the Chromecast network as needed.
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I've been using the chromecast for about 2 weeks now and this happened today for the first time. (the only diff was that i set a router with DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content since i'm not in the US)
All you have to do is reboot the chromecast and the issue goes away
(use the android chromecast app to reboot, disconnecting and reconnecting it did not work for me)
Hope this helps you guys:good:
The only issue with rebooting the Chromecast is I'm disconnected from it! So when I attempt to go in to the Chromecast app it says there are no chromecast on the network.
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Problem Solved
Seems that the old router was a problem. I switched out my old D-Link DI-524 with a new Motorola SB-302 and the problem seems to have disappeared!
Still very weird that no issues with youtube or tab casting only netflix wouldnt work!!
But I am a happy camper now :laugh:
rock1206 said:
Seems that the old router was a problem. I switched out my old D-Link DI-524 with a new Motorola SB-302 and the problem seems to have disappeared!
Still very weird that no issues with youtube or tab casting only netflix wouldnt work!!
But I am a happy camper now :laugh:
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I am having the same problem you described with Netflix. I've done some searching online for a fix and tried everything I've found but with no success. My router and modem are both very old (modem 2004, router 2006), so I have ordered some new ones from Amazon, in the hopes that it will fix the issue, since it worked for you. It is strange that Youtube and tab casting work great, just not netflix. I will try to remember to come back to this thread when I have the next equipment and the problem is (hopefully) fixed, so that others may find this solution, too. Enjoy your casting and thanks for posting your solution.
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I am having the same problem you described with Netflix. I've done some searching online for a fix and tried everything I've found but with no success. My router and modem are both very old (modem 2004, router 2006), so I have ordered some new ones from Amazon, in the hopes that it will fix the issue, since it worked for you. It is strange that Youtube and tab casting work great, just not netflix. I will try to remember to come back to this thread when I have the next equipment and the problem is (hopefully) fixed, so that others may find this solution, too. Enjoy your casting and thanks for posting your solution.
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I get the red loading screen on my rooted Nook Color, and it takes forever to start responding on my rooted Gingerbread phone. Win7 computers and WinXP laptop don't have a problem with Netflix. However, there are apparently some shows that won't cast from Chrome tabs. My sister ran into one last night, it sent us to the incompatible technology page. I was able to finally cast it from the phone though.
Did they change the Chromecast network thing? I haven't seen it showing up lately.
schizox said:
I've been using the chromecast for about 2 weeks now and this happened today for the first time. (the only diff was that i set a router with DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content since i'm not in the US)
All you have to do is reboot the chromecast and the issue goes away
(use the android chromecast app to reboot, disconnecting and reconnecting it did not work for me)
Hope this helps you guys:good:
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Off topic
Would you have a link as to how to setup DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content. TIA
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joeb690 said:
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Would you have a link as to how to setup DDWRT and VPN set in order to see US netflix content. TIA
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I use strongvpn they have the instructions on the site, it's fairly a simple setup
the netflix in canada thread has the steps for it also, here are the links for both PPTP and OpenVPN setups
http://strongvpn.com/setup_dd-wrt_pptp.shtml
http://www.strongvpn.com/setup_dd-wrt_openvpn.shtml
A friend got it working with unblock-us, for some reason it I was not able to get it to work this way, it would always hang loading the stream at about 45%
hope it helps.
Sorry for necro but did anyone found a solution for this problem yet? I coudnt find anything consecutive in any other threads.. I got netflix geo restrictions passed by mediahint chrome addon, everything is working fine for couple of months now. Today i bought chromecast to enjoy it on my fat ass new big screen and everything (tabs and youtube) is working apart from netflix, which is basically the reason why i bought it. Same problem as all, stuck on red loading screen while netflix on laptop hangs for a while and goes back to the home page.
AZBrauMeister said:
I am having the same problem you described with Netflix. I've done some searching online for a fix and tried everything I've found but with no success. My router and modem are both very old (modem 2004, router 2006), so I have ordered some new ones from Amazon, in the hopes that it will fix the issue, since it worked for you. It is strange that Youtube and tab casting work great, just not netflix. I will try to remember to come back to this thread when I have the next equipment and the problem is (hopefully) fixed, so that others may find this solution, too. Enjoy your casting and thanks for posting your solution.
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Did equipment change help? My router is also pretty old so your update would be very helpful here
I was just playing around with the Movies app and noticed I can't seem to watch/download the licensed movies.
It's concerning the five free ones we received with the phone (they're the only ones I've tried at the moment). I redeemed them when I got the phone and at that time they downloaded and played just fine. Now though, when I tried to play one it said could not play video.
I deleted the file and thought I'd re-download to see if that helped but it now keeps saying 'Unable to get license' and won't download.
Just wondering if anyone else has had or seen a similar issue before?
i have a different problem, i can't remove video unlimited completely. even after uninstalling it, the movies app still loads video unlimited stuff.
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I was just playing around with the Movies app and noticed I can't seem to watch/download the licensed movies.
It's concerning the five free ones we received with the phone (they're the only ones I've tried at the moment). I redeemed them when I got the phone and at that time they downloaded and played just fine. Now though, when I tried to play one it said could not play video.
I deleted the file and thought I'd re-download to see if that helped but it now keeps saying 'Unable to get license' and won't download.
Just wondering if anyone else has had or seen a similar issue before?
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sitting in the same boat as you. :crying:
xAjCx said:
sitting in the same boat as you. :crying:
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Mine's all good again.
I'm not sure what exactly fixed the problem. Before noticing it was fixed I know I did both a factory reset and re-flashed a stock FTF file (for other purposes - I gave up on the license issue).
Maybe try one (or both) of those options and see if that helps (or maybe even running the repair through PC Companion)?
Just received my chromecast have it set up but whenever I watch movies the help of avia it loses connection or "drops out" back to the chromecast main screen . Netflix and YouTube are OK.
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gavin-phelan said:
Just received my chromecast have it set up but whenever I watch movies the help of avia it loses connection or "drops out" back to the chromecast main screen . Netflix and YouTube are OK.
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Go to settings and enable wifi lock and the option below it
Basically it keeps your device awake so that Avia doesn't auto close or something
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But wont that drain the battery?
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gavin-phelan said:
But wont that drain the battery?
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You bet it will, although it's not THAT bad...
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Ok I'll try it
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Still happening
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Still happening
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Well do you have the same problem with YouTube or Netflix?
If so then it's probably router related not aVia....
If it doesn't happen with them then try another device if you have one to see if it is aVia related or Device specific.
So many variables that can cause what you're seeing that without seeing your router settings and android logs it's hard to way what is the problem.
I've had the paid-for version of Avia since the news broke of it gaining Chromecast support, but I just haven't really used it much at all since I've more than fallen in love with my Plex Media Server and my new PlexPass. Well, last night I had an update to Avia in the Play Store, updated it accordingly, then just decided to give it a quick whirl. I experienced the same thing as you...it would play stuff off my pc server just fine, but like clockwork, after playing a video for like 7-9 mins(wasn't keeping a close eye on the time lol) it would cut out and then the video would then stop playing thru my Chromecast in turn. I tried several times after that and it kept doing the same thing over and over again. After getting frustrated, I looked thru the Avia settings(before even seeing this thread) and I did what these guys are suggesting...I enabled the Wi-Fi lock setting & the other setting box below it as well. After ticking these boxes, I loaded up the same video off my pc server & it played all the way thru to the end without a single hiccup. I'm not saying this will most definitely work in your case, but it sure did help me.
Good Luck!
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Yep. I'm having the same problem. Avia will play the video then a few minutes later, it will lose connection and cut back to the chromecast screen.
drivenby said:
Go to settings and enable wifi lock and the option below it
Basically it keeps your device awake so that Avia doesn't auto close or something
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I was having the same problem but the above solved it for me. I've watched many shows since changing it and it hasn't disconnected since.
Having the same issue even with the wifi lock on.
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Having the same issue even with the wifi lock on.
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Interestingly had this issue flag itself up in my household over Xmas. Everything worked fine via my N5 with Avia, but my brother on the same devices got a drop out after 7-8 minutes.
Logically we worked through this thread, with no joy. For some reason I told him to uninstall Battery Doctor, as I knew he'd optimised his phone for battery consumption.
We tried again and everything works flawlessly. Sorry I can't pinpoint exactly what the specific issue was but this solved the dropping out issue for us.
Hope that helps someone.
Anyone having the issue of when starting a video in avia and then trying to cast it makes all devices on network drop there connection with the WiFi network? Any suggestions would help. Thanks
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Anyone having the issue of when starting a video in avia and then trying to cast it makes all devices on network drop there connection with the WiFi network? Any suggestions would help. Thanks
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Sounds like a router issue. Perhaps insufficient bandwidth or a general inability to handle large wireless load.
What router do you have?
bhiga said:
Sounds like a router issue. Perhaps insufficient bandwidth or a general inability to handle large wireless load.
What router do you have?
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Its a dlink dir-628
I have the same issue when streaming from my Nexus 7 (2013) on 4.4. Netflix and youtube works fine, but Avia constantly disconnects (kicking me back out to the chromecast home page) and/or buffers every 10 seconds. When I transfer the EXACT same video file to my GS4 running 4.3, it always casts smoothly with no hickups. It is obviously an Avia software glitch. Would love to get it resolved.
trenchtownrocked said:
I have the same issue when streaming from my Nexus 7 (2013) on 4.4. Netflix and youtube works fine, but Avia constantly disconnects (kicking me back out to the chromecast home page) and/or buffers every 10 seconds. When I transfer the EXACT same video file to my GS4 running 4.3, it always casts smoothly with no hickups. It is obviously an Avia software glitch. Would love to get it resolved.
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Perchance are your Nexus 7 and GS4 on different wireless bands?
Well I'm using a nexus 7 (2012) and now that its mentioned I havent been able to replicate the problem on my gs3.
So I got a chromecast over the vacations and it was working perfectly. Then yesterday it stopped while I was using it. I tried again to cast anything (youtube and Netflix) and it gives me an error message. I have tried factory reseting it twice, and nothing has changed. I have never rooted it or anything. Does anyone have any ideas?
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weldawadyathink said:
So I got a chromecast over the vacations and it was working perfectly. Then yesterday it stopped while I was using it. I tried again to cast anything (youtube and Netflix) and it gives me an error message. I have tried factory reseting it twice, and nothing has changed. I have never rooted it or anything. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Can you tell us the error message shown in the application(s)?
Also would help to know your make/model of router.
So of course. I try everything I can think of, then ask here, and the second I post it starts to work again. Thanks for helping me out even if I didn't need it. In case anyone still cares, the error said something like "error sending video to device", and it is an att uverse router.
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Hahaha keep an eye on it. If it got a firmware update it might have been something related to UPnP or DHCP as those addresses are cached for a short time by the router. Let us know of it shows up again, otherwise have fun!
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bhiga said:
Hahaha keep an eye on it. If it got a firmware update it might have been something related to UPnP or DHCP as those addresses are cached for a short time by the router. Let us know of it shows up again, otherwise have fun!
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So actually this is still a problem. I cannot play more than about 3 minutes of a youtube video without it giving me an error. Netflix still works fine though. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?
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weldawadyathink said:
So actually this is still a problem. I cannot play more than about 3 minutes of a youtube video without it giving me an error. Netflix still works fine though. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?
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If you can tell us the make and model number, or point to the manual maybe we can find some probably settings that need adjustment, if the router isn't already listed on Google's known router issues page.
Otherwise, look for options that mention
IGMP
IPv6
Multicast
QoS
I added my mac address to the exception list as per Google instructions for 2 wire routers, but I am too tired to try anything tonight. I will post soon letting you know if it helped.
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Same issue. I'm on 15250 with an actiontec c1000a modem. I can see the chromecast on all my devices but its being very erratic.
All this started with "test a" - I queued 2 videos from my phone, played 1 full 3:30 min video, and the 2nd video made the chromecast hang after 30s or so. It was unresponsive to all other devices and apps.
Did a factory reset, set everything up again. I played several videos under 3 mins, then switched devices, then switched to play music - all worked. Then I went back to "test a" and same problem.
edit : turns out it's always 1 video that does the "killing" as such. Prodigy's stand up (labelled "best quality") on YT. I don't want to link to the video really, but can anyone see if the same issue happens to them?
thanatos_evo said:
Same issue. I'm on 15250 with an actiontec c1000a modem. I can see the chromecast on all my devices but its being very erratic.
All this started with "test a" - I queued 2 videos from my phone, played 1 full 3:30 min video, and the 2nd video made the chromecast hang after 30s or so. It was unresponsive to all other devices and apps.
Did a factory reset, set everything up again. I played several videos under 3 mins, then switched devices, then switched to play music - all worked. Then I went back to "test a" and same problem.
edit : turns out it's always 1 video that does the "killing" as such. Prodigy's stand up (labelled "best quality") on YT. I don't want to link to the video really, but can anyone see if the same issue happens to them?
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I've got an Actiontec c1000a, found the Prodigy video and will test it out later today.
Do you have WMM turned off on your Actiontec?
EarlyMon said:
Do you have WMM turned off on your Actiontec?
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Don't know. I'll check once I get home. I'm guessing I'll find it in the modem admin page?
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Don't know. I'll check once I get home. I'm guessing I'll find it in the modem admin page?
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WMM is usually in the Advanced Wireless settings for most routers.
I did what Google said to do on the page you linked for a 2 wire modem, but nothing changed. Do you have any more ideas? It worked fine before the update, but now on YouTube only, it can't play more than about 3 minutes. It is an att uverse router, and I can get the exact model if needed
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I did what Google said to do on the page you linked for a 2 wire modem, but nothing changed. Do you have any more ideas? It worked fine before the update, but now on YouTube only, it can't play more than about 3 minutes. It is an att uverse router, and I can get the exact model if needed
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First try power cycling the router, then Chromecast. If that doesn't help please post model, sounds like something RTSP related maybe.
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thanatos_evo said:
Same issue. I'm on 15250 with an actiontec c1000a modem. I can see the chromecast on all my devices but its being very erratic.
All this started with "test a" - I queued 2 videos from my phone, played 1 full 3:30 min video, and the 2nd video made the chromecast hang after 30s or so. It was unresponsive to all other devices and apps.
Did a factory reset, set everything up again. I played several videos under 3 mins, then switched devices, then switched to play music - all worked. Then I went back to "test a" and same problem.
edit : turns out it's always 1 video that does the "killing" as such. Prodigy's stand up (labelled "best quality") on YT. I don't want to link to the video really, but can anyone see if the same issue happens to them?
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Couldn't get this to fail, sorry for the delay testing it.
It seems to me that my chromecast just hates these videos. Every other youtube video works fine except this audio book I have been listening to on YouTube. Thanks for all the help anyway.
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Hi, I've been trying to chromecast for the last few days. I came from a Nexus 6p which worked 100% with chromecast. If i use the web browser and try to cast from a video channel, it never connects to my chromecast or TV (with chromecast built in). I've tried the mirroring option but it never finds a chromecast. I've downloaded Google Home, that seems to have a bug where i can't login to my google account from my P20 Pro.
I've looked online and on here and haven't seen any other posts on it. It would be good to test. I am on the Dual Sim Three UK 8.1.0.102 (C782) variant.
Thanks
It has worked flawlessly using local cast app.
I've always found Google home glitchy.
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Works flawlessly for me. I've had the P20 Pro since release and I've never had a problem using a Chromecast, although I did recently factory reset my Chromecast, so that may have fixed any issues.
I use Chromecast several times a day, and haven't noticed anything odd.
I'm using Chrome browser to play web-videos and the Google Home app to mirror the screen.
Haven't used the built-in cast/mirror feature, but that has never worked reliably for me on any device
Thanks all, i wonder what is happening here. Even the Google home app isn't working. It's like an authentication error in the app. Chromecast doesn't connect to either of my chromecast devices. Works fine on my old phone still. I wonder if it's my firmware. I am on .102 which i know is really old. Waiting for Three/Huawei to update...
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Thanks all, i wonder what is happening here. Even the Google home app isn't working. It's like an authentication error in the app. Chromecast doesn't connect to either of my chromecast devices. Works fine on my old phone still. I wonder if it's my firmware. I am on .102 which i know is really old. Waiting for Three/Huawei to update...
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I'm on 102 and it works.
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Chromecast mostly works for me. The only thing that doesn't is volume controls from screen off. Apart from that, and the few normal Chromecast glitches, it works well.
I'm casting NFL Gamepass from my P20 Pro to my Nvidia Shield as I type this, it's worked flawlessly whenever I've tried since I got my phone (mine is also dual SIM from Three).
This works very sporadically for me, often from apps that cast (excluding Netflix and YouTube which have a different mechanism for Chromecast discovery) it's as if the refresh devices button doesn't really trigger a proper refresh.
The Google home app often doesn't show my Chromecasts but if I keep it open and wait maybe 5 minutes they'll eventually show.
Anyone seen anything like this?
I had problem with NBA game time app, it didn't display the cast icon after update of the device to .107 but iwas probably due to the implementation of an old. Chromecast API from NBA app itself. After NBA has updated the app is working perfectly
I streamed YouTube to a chromecast this evening without any problem, worked like expected...
No issues here, sounds more like a network issue to me.
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No issues here, sounds more like a network issue to me.
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Have you guys tried it with apps other than youtube or netflix?
Those work fine for me but they use a different discovery method, see here;
actually... I can't post links but googling "netflix different chromecast discovery" and going to the google developers discovery troubleshooting confirms this.
Network is also ruled out for me as it's still working flawlessly on my old phone and my wife's phone.
I cast all the time from Plex so it's super annoying not being able to find the chromecasts for 10 minutes and the closing apps/G Home, rebooting etc trying to trigger a discovery.
Cheers,
Jon
Oh a further update to my theory of "the refresh/scan isn't working as it should"
I have a CC that turns off when the TV is turned off and this sometimes appears in the list of devices for hours after it's been turned off, like overnight.
I've tried a factory reset but it didn't help, it's across multiple apps so maybe something to do with discovery in the android discovery software itself?
I wish all the apps just used their own discovery like YT/NF.... grumble, grumble...
Further update...
I'm 90% sure this is due to some overly aggressive power saving. I've also noticed the BBC news widget doesn't update as much as it should.
Today I tested resetting a Chromecast and attaching it as a new one. Didn't work. Needed to use another device to get it set up with Google home. Not ideal. Be interesting to see if anyone else can attach a new Chromecast after factory resetting one if anyone fancies some troubleshooting for me?
Go on, be a pal.
Cheers,
Jon
Works flawlessly in streaming from playmovies to casting the screen
I stream from plex or YouTube to a chromecast without problem
Damn... Maybe it's just some devices or a firmware issue then.
I'm on 8.1.0.103, have you a later one? Might be stuck waiting for an update
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Damn... Maybe it's just some devices or a firmware issue then.
I'm on 8.1.0.103, have you a later one? Might be stuck waiting for an update
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I'm on .107 firmware, I never tried older ones.
Im also experiencing some problems with chromecast. Basically, some apps, like spotify, sometimes does not show my chromecasts under devices available.
After some tests, I think it is something related to the wifi strength and wifi+. If I disable the sim data, magically all the chromecasts around my house are correctly detected.