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Ask HN: What is going on with Google Chromecast?

6 points by herodoturtle 2y ago

Ours stopped working yesterday out of the blue (we couldn't stream to it). I thought it was broken. Tried a factory reset, and following all instructions on Google Home, all to no avail. Checked out Reddit and it turns out lots of folks are experiencing the exact same issue across the world. It all started a couple days ago. Anyone have any idea what's up?

appleorchard46 2y ago
Tldr: certificate expiration. See [0] for details and fixes. [0] https://mensfeld.pl/2025/03/bringing-your-chromecast-back/ https://mensfeld.pl/2025/03/bringing-your-chromecast-back/
- herodoturtle 2y ago
  Thank you! Love HN.
wnevets 2y ago
this taking so long to fix is bizarre.
OhMeadhbh 2y ago
It's an expired intermediate certificate in the chain of the device certificate. https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1j7lhrs/the_chromecast_2s_device_authentication/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1j7lhrs/the_chr... and https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/google_chromecast_outage/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/google_chromecast_out...
ChrisArchitect 2y ago
Discussion over the last few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43312334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43312334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319881
thorin 2y ago
I managed to temporarily fix my casting from android phone to TV today by fdroid activity manager to ignore certificates for casting using some instructions I found online. It's working well now.