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Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage

9to5google.com Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40385572

If you're getting "Untrusted device" on your Chromecast today, you're not alone. It looks like an expired cert.

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17h ago

Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage

9to5google.com /2025/03/09/chromecast-2nd-gen-audio/

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Well shit, I have a couple of BNIB Chromecast audios lying around for years that I've been meaning to put on eBay. Hopefully they fix them so they're not paperweights.

I always had issues with chromecast. And I haven't used one in 5+ years. I assumed they were better by now?
- Well, they're all but discontinued now.
- They're pretty good. The affected models are 10-year-old now. Not that it means they should stop working, but just some context.

Holy hell! I couldn't cast to my chromecast audio even though nothing changed with my setup. Now I know why.
I gotta look at the non google options.

Hopefully, the company can send out a server-side fix in short order.
The Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio are two of Google’s oldest devices, with both announced at the same event in September of 2015.
Yeah those are likely considered dead and abandoned by google, they will probably not give a shit about it.
- Comments from Google accounts on Twitter and Reddit say they are working on a fix.
  Hey there, we're aware of an emerging issue impacting Chromecast 2nd gen and Chromecast Audio devices and are working on a fix. Do not factory reset your device - we will keep you all updated when the fix rolls out. If you have already factory reset your device, we will provide instructions to set your device back up as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
  
  Cool, seems they're less assholes about this that their usual MO would suggest which is a nice change of pace.
- I bought a Chromecast Audio right before they were discontinued, trying to get in while I still could. It's the only way I cast to a wired speaker system from the 80s that works reliably.
  I loved the convenience but I will not go along with their cash grabs. I will not buy their new product because they took away the old one that was still working.
  
  They were discontinued because they lost a patent case. This one I won't blame on Google... cept maybe for their legal team not flagging it for patent infringement.
- I have to think there's some project out there where you could plug a 3.5 to RCA adapter into a Pi and use it in a similar fashion. Maybe would need a bridge app from the 'cast' function to connect to it, but I expect not impossible.
  
  I've tried it but the audio quality was absolutely atrocious on the first pi generations at least. I got a hat from a third party for it.

There's nothing else like the Chromecast audio, and it's a crying shame that Google discontinued them. I have four and rely on them every day. I sure hope they will fix this issue.
- The WiiM devices support google cast and many other protocols.
  
  Thanks for the link! Too bad they're stupid expensive in comparison to my old CCAs ;(
  
  Thanks! I didn't know about these.

Those certificates should not exist in first place. That is just a bad design.
- You think that traffic should be unencrypted?
  
  It's possible to encrypt traffic without a cert that expires.
  I don't know much about how Chromecast works but my bet is that it's like a hacked together lighthttp or nginx server, which is why it needs a SSL cert renewal.

I have been affected... Glad I saw this, at least I know it's not just me.

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