Hi spud,
Just wanted to find out if you've been thinking about the disconnect problem.
Every morning when I wake up at least a couple of my chromecast audio devices and groups are disconnected. It is often as simple as clicking the "connect" button on the device root to reconnect. Rarely I have to restart the plugin.
The disconnect seems to happen overnight between 2-5am and never during the day.
As far as I can tell there are two problems:
(1) daily disconnects overnight
(2) failure to reliability reconnect after disconnect
I wonder if part of the problem could be the PI is trying to reestablish connections to multiple devices at once when the connection is lost in the early morning hours. Perhaps if reconnection was staggered it may be successful? Maybe the PI should try to reconnect again if it was not successful?
Unfortunately this bug is making it very difficult to use the PI. I wake up every morning and reconnect disconnected chromecasts and sometimes restart the PI.
Part of me had wondered if this was due to poor wifi (even though chromecast devices are sitting beside the router), so I purchased the chromecast-ethernet power supply for all my chromecast devices (5 of them). There was some improvement in the overall reliability but this problem persists.
Is there anything you can suggest?
My setup consists of 4 chromecast audio devices, 4 chromecast audio groups and one first gen chromecast. I also have 4 google home minis but they are not included in the PI.
Thanks,
Ben
Just wanted to find out if you've been thinking about the disconnect problem.
Every morning when I wake up at least a couple of my chromecast audio devices and groups are disconnected. It is often as simple as clicking the "connect" button on the device root to reconnect. Rarely I have to restart the plugin.
The disconnect seems to happen overnight between 2-5am and never during the day.
As far as I can tell there are two problems:
(1) daily disconnects overnight
(2) failure to reliability reconnect after disconnect
I wonder if part of the problem could be the PI is trying to reestablish connections to multiple devices at once when the connection is lost in the early morning hours. Perhaps if reconnection was staggered it may be successful? Maybe the PI should try to reconnect again if it was not successful?
Unfortunately this bug is making it very difficult to use the PI. I wake up every morning and reconnect disconnected chromecasts and sometimes restart the PI.
Part of me had wondered if this was due to poor wifi (even though chromecast devices are sitting beside the router), so I purchased the chromecast-ethernet power supply for all my chromecast devices (5 of them). There was some improvement in the overall reliability but this problem persists.
Is there anything you can suggest?
My setup consists of 4 chromecast audio devices, 4 chromecast audio groups and one first gen chromecast. I also have 4 google home minis but they are not included in the PI.
Thanks,
Ben
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