Over the past few hours, owners of the Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio haven’t been able to Cast any audio or video content.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40385572

If you’re getting “Untrusted device” on your Chromecast today, you’re not alone. It looks like an expired cert.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•12 hours 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.

    • @PhelpssanEnglish
      6•7 hours ago

      Comments from Google accounts on Twitter and Reddit say they are working on a fix.

      Hey there, we’re aware of an emerging issue impacting Chromecast 2nd gen and Chromecast Audio devices and are working on a fix. Do not factory reset your device - we will keep you all updated when the fix rolls out. If you have already factory reset your device, we will provide instructions to set your device back up as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•7 hours ago

        Cool, seems they’re less assholes about this that their usual MO would suggest which is a nice change of pace.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•10 hours ago

      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.

      • @unphazedEnglish
        3•8 hours ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•6 hours ago

          that’s good to know at least, I always thought it was because they wanted to push more smart speakers

          • @unphazedEnglish
            1•5 hours ago

            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.)

            • @[email protected]English
              2•4 hours ago

              Patents have gone too far. I just want to stream Spotify to my home speakers; I shouldn’t need proprietary bullshit to do that

    • Monkey With A ShellEnglish
      1•8 hours ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 hours ago

        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.