Chromecast Authentication Woes: A Technical Deep Dive into the Certificate Authority Crisis
The recent authentication failures plaguing second-generation Chromecast devices reveal a critical oversight in certificate management. As Google scrambles to resolve the expired Certificate Authority...
Hang on, they're still working, for that purpose. Enjoying some Brubeck streamed off my own file server while making dinner.
Il tuo vecchio Chromecast sta facendo i capricci? Niente paura, Google si scusa e sta lavorando per te! #Chromecast #GoogleHelps
https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/il-vostro-vecchio-chromecast-da-problemi-google-si-scusa-2025-03-12
Well, until this morning two of my #Chromecast Audios were still working with noncommercial apps like #VLC and #SomaFM, since they don't ask the devices to authenticate. But today those have dropped off the network as well.
Due to the #Chromecast situation I ran librelec / #Kodi on the #RaspberryPi but I am struggling to get Youtube to work on it. Why is it so hard 
Update: Downloaded the latest beta version of the add-on and it worked.
Chromecast: Google conferma il problema, fix in arrivo
#Aggiornamento #App #Bug #Certificati #Chromecast #Conferma #Dongle #Errore #Fix #Google #GoogleHome #NonFunziona #Notizie #Problema #Soluzione #Streaming #TechNews #Tecnologia
https://www.ceotech.it/chromecast-google-conferma-il-problema-fix-in-arrivo/
So #Google #Chromecast has a 10 year time bomb...
@awfulwoman I have a couple of #chromecast Audio devices myself, but I'm slowly phasing them out with pi zero boards running #piCorePlayer hooked up to #homeassistant .
I'm curious about other alternatives, though.
Un certificat caducat deixa els Chromecast de segona generació KO.
Si algú està afectat cal esperar una mica per una actualització.
No real changes in the #Chromecast situation. It is still not working.
Google posted the following saying it identified the problem and is working on a solution. https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Streaming/Regarding-an-issue-with-Chromecast-2nd-gen-and-Chromecast-Audio/m-p/689980/highlight/true#M66201
Yesterday, my phone received an update for #Google Home but it changed nothing.
Interesting rundown of the #chromecast certificate issue and what it would take to fix it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1j8wtxa/heres_why_a_fix_is_taking_so_long/
Me: Here #Chromecast you can use the NTP server in this DHCP response.
Chromecast: No.
Chromecast: *cant connect to google NTP due to fw rules*
Chromecast: No Internet Connection
Me: Why are you like this?
Gen 2 #Chromecast still down globally. 3 days now since Google allowed a certificate on their product to lapse. This kind of avoidable obsolescence is inexcusable. Apparently it affects all devices
This is speculation, but a Redditor has written a plausible explanation of the global collapse of Google's #Chromecast devices, and why it's taking so long to fix: https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1j8wtxa/heres_why_a_fix_is_taking_so_long/
Come on #Google. If you don’t get your #Chromecast shit together by Friday morning, I swear I’ll be watching someone else’s streamer on Friday night. No Google bloody TV for me!
This worked for me
This is why your Chromecast isn't working, and here's how to fix it
https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-fix-chromecast-authentication-errors-workarounds-3533849/
Also, fuuuuck you very much #Googlle for bricking my #Chromecast that was working fine. #enshittification
Google's Chromecast v2 (2015) and Chromecast Audio stopped working this week due to an expired certificate. Google is working on a fix, but if you're affected one thing you should *not* do is factory reset your device while you wait. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/googles-10-year-old-chromecast-is-busted-but-a-fix-is-coming/ #Chromecast #Google #MediaStreamer
I've installed Moode Audio on a Raspberry Pi and hooked it up to my living room sound bar alongside the #Chromecast Audio. It can't do casting but it can do AirPlay.
But that's a somewhat inferior solution, since for the most part AirPlay doesn't hand off streams for the target device to handle on its own, you're actually streaming from the sender device, using its resources (e.g. battery, CPU, bandwidth), and you can't close the app. So I really hope Google fixes this thing.
Someone on my feed posted about this #Chromecast issue, can't remember who.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/googles-10-year-old-chromecast-is-busted-but-a-fix-is-coming/
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