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Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage [U] (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 week ago by clifmo@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[-] MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Factory reset isn't the end of the world, I did it to my gen2 Chromecast when the outage first happened and managed to get it connected again by rolling my phone's date back and finishing the setup.

This article was super helpful and helped temporarily restore casting functionality from my phone. https://mensfeld.pl/2025/03/bringing-your-chromecast-back/

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] clifmo@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

DNLA/UPnP

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Bluetooth

[-] amarok77@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Some apps still working is because the authentication is not mandatory.

Screenshot from Tweakers.net discussion: chromecast apps still working on second generation

[-] TheFANUM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's a bug. They're aware and working on it

[-] amarok77@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week 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?
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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