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
    1•2 days 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.

    • @_g_beEnglish
      1•1 day ago

      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

      • @[email protected]English
        1•18 hours ago

        It wasn’t a computing power issue: simply plugging a hat into the same exact pi B2 fixed the issue.

        I’ve tried to Google for an article about this but I didn’t get lucky. Essentially it was something about how the jack output was driven using pwm that was causing hissing and crackling if I remember right.

        And I concur that it’s a good everything streamer if you use the HDMI output or a hat with an audiophile-grade audio output.

        Edit: the latest pis might still have a better-driven jack output but I still won’t trust it unless I test it thoroughly.

        Edit: I was using the B2 and not the 2B but this is the issue I had: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/38023/3-5-mm-jack-starts-to-hiss-after-sound-is-played