I'm honestly getting a bit disillusioned with Cast. I replaced all my Sonos with Nest speakers because of the better voice assistant functionality. "Fully supported" services like YouTube Music (that can be integrated as your default music service) work fine. But when I'm trying to use Plex or Tidal I run into issues if I try to include things like my Nest Hub in a group or dynamically add/remove speakers from what's playing.
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Really? I have a CCwGTV hooked to my big audio system acting as one speaker and a Nest Audio as the other. I use them in a group as well as individually and I don't see any problems with audio over Spotify, YT Music or Plex. π€ Other than the occasional issue now and then.
The issue is with different Cast firmware versions. The Nest Audio is at 2.57 and my Nest Hub is at 1.71. The CCwGTV is likely kept up to date with the Nest Audio.
Interesting. Yeah, large disparities between versions can easily cause significant issues. I know I can't get teams in my org to commit to supporting just N and N+1 version compatibility.
Edit: just looked at my CCwGTV and it says its cast firmware is 1.69. π While the Nest Audio and Home Mini are on 2.57.
Yeah my Shield TV is on 1.68 and it works so I guess it's not the specific version. Still, the inconsistent performance is annoying. Not bad enough to get me to sell the speakers, but bad enough for me to not recommend them.
Does this mean it'll work again? Mine have been intermittent for half a year now, no matter if media was just started or has been playing for hours.
Is there a way to disable this?