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.

I was wondering why my Chromecast was suddenly untrusted. An update seems to have knocked off older Chromecast devices globally. People are factory-resetting them before they know what to do, making the potential fixes even harder.

  • @meco03211English
    4•14 hours ago

    Is there any alternative to chromecast out there with more privacy?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      5•14 hours ago

      Yea I mean dlna/upnp is open, Chromecast solves the problem of a cheap, small bit of hardware to do that. It’s a bit of a mixed blessing. They sell at what must be a loss*, maintain backwards compatibility at I’m sure a huge expense, all to get your data.

      • @meco03211English
        3•13 hours ago

        Apologies, I’m no longer as technically literate as I used to be. I’ve no idea what that means.

        • bitwolfEnglish
          2•12 hours ago

          The best way I can describe it is that it lets you access media files on a remote share efficiently.

          If you streamed music from windows to your Xbox 360, it’s using the protocol.

          If you use Kodi, or Windows Media Player they both use it as well.

          Plex I know exposes itself as a UPnP endpoint, so you can “browse” it from Kodi or another media player (that supports UPnP), as if it’s on your device.

          Its an open standard and slightly more commonly available than you might realize :)

          I was being a bit facetious though. On an architectural level though, it can be reasoned it’s different enough from Chromecast to not be a replacement.

          DLNA/UPnP is a direct stream between two devices on your Local network.

          Chromecast is more “hey little dongle, here’s a URL, play it”.

          So media in the cloud wouldn’t work with DLNA/UPnP

    • @CortEnglish
      2•14 hours ago

      Bluetooth