Re:Please make your products work with URLs
by Spivak on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:08PM
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The intermittent connectivity problem might be the result of a chatty network. mDNS is really sensitive to this and clients don’t wait very long before deciding that they got all the responses from devices.
If you stick your Chromecast and your phone in their own broadcast domain I think the problem would disappear. Unfortunately it’s not a solution to whatever is spamming your network but it would tell you that that’s the problem.
Re:Please make your products work with URLs
by coda_ on Monday January 13, 2020 @06:17PM
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Any suggestions on how to determine what is causing the chatty network?
Re:Please make your products work with URLs
by namibj on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:01PM
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Wireshark should help. Otherwise, it's a pretty open-ended question.
Re:Please make your products work with URLs
by foobarandgrill on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:09AM
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What often happens to me is my chromecast audio doesn't show up on my desktop chrome but does on my other devices and I have to reconnect my computer's wifi and restart the browser for the chromecast to appear. Really wish they have a simple "refresh" button that lets you try checking for more chromecasts.
When it works, it works well, and it is nice to just press a button and whatever I'd like to use is up on my TV. It does feel a little magic.
But even when you're using compatible tools / devices that should work together, sometimes they mysteriously don't, and there's absolutely no way to know what's going wrong. Approximately 25% of the time, my Chromecast device just doesn't seem to exist according to my computer. Both my computer and the device have network connectivity, but there's just no ability to cast. I'm reduced to randomly restarting things in a vain hope that things will work.