I’ve got a chromecast HD paired to a monitor. For a while it was turning on when I pressed the on button but lately I’m having to reset and repair in order to get it to even work.

I’ve noticed that if I leave it on for a long time the Bluetooth eventually disconnects. Anyone that’s had a similar issue that’s willing to help?

I have a friend who is developing a media player which has the ability to cast to other devices, including Chromecast.

I have found during the course of testing that casting to one TV has almost nothing on the display other than the song title - no art, no graphic, nothing, just the title. It plays fine, but just looks a bit meh.

Surprisingly, the same product casts to another TV and shows the artist name, the song title, the album name and also the album artwork.

Why is one showing this and not the other?

I should also add that other applications (such as Poweramp, and others) show exactly the same thing when casting to both devices - album, album artwork, title, artist, everything, so clearly something is not right in what he is doing. Can anyone suggest a reason?

To be honest, I only paid for it because it was attached to a 4 inch female to male HDMI adapter that I'm hoping is an HDCP stripper (have to reassemble an older computer to test THAT with my PS3) but I figure if I CAN use the chromecast for something, you folks would know.

Not sure what flair to put on this.

My chromecast updates very late at night and sometimes I’m gaming and it mega nightmare ruins my experience because it switches away from my game due to my setup. Is there any way I can fucking change when that happens? Why does it need to update literally every day? Holy fucking shit.

My google tv streamer is having this issue where it’s fine everywhere even when playing the video on nuvio but as soon as I skip forward maybe twice or thrice it loads endlessly and even other apps stop loading for like 3-4 mins then they start working, if I disconnect and reconnect WiFi they work immediately again, same thing on stremio like it initially loads fast and plays without buffering but if I skip forward or backwards it again does the same thing, on my tvs os this doesn’t happen. And on the google tv streamer on 2.4ghz it doesn’t happen ether

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?

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.

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