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.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 day ago

    We have a Chromecast 2nd generation which has indeed the known problem. However when I use Music Assistant from Home Assistant I can cast from my own music collection (flac files).

    I haven’t tried yet to cast from Spotify using Music Assistant.

    I own an iPhone and casting a Youtube video indeed doesn’t work. This results in receiving an untrusted device message.

    Questions now coming up are

    • why are some apps still able to cast to a 2nd generation Chromecast?
    • are there more apps still working?