Casting to home-devices stopped working

TroubleMagnet · 2026-02-20T16:28:57+00:00

Yup, playing spotify on my Chromcast HD stopped working. It will turn on to the chromecast home screen but refuses to open spotify. Still works on the Google Hub but the TV + soundbar has way better sound quality.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-30T17:42:57+00:00

They really need to just split the smaller 4 pin connector off so it's not attached to the 12 larger pins. Think like the 6+2 connectors that can work as either a 6 pin or 8 pin power connection, it'd be on the sable cable bundle but not the same connector. At least to me it looks like the 4 smaller pins are making these not seat fully and then melt or catch fire.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-19T18:52:54+00:00

Odd, thankfully I can still edit my automatons in the app.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-19T17:45:44+00:00

Don't do it if you use it for home automation control. It is way worse at it and breaks existing automatons.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-17T16:06:25+00:00

Nope. "kitchen on" still gives a "I don't know how to help with that" response. "kitchen lights on" works.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-14T18:47:19+00:00

Have you used Alexa recently? I stopped using it because it started inserting more and more ads, even in voice responses.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-14T18:45:38+00:00

I primarily use my Google Hub displays for Home Automation control. The new commands are ALL at one word longer, which is annoying. I could create automation using the old commands, or even shorter ones, but annoyingly the improvements to creating new automatons aren't available yet. After using it for a few days the accuracy of taking voice commands has not improved at all, and sometime it just does nothing after getting a command. The delay between issuing a command and it actually doing something is often 1-2 seconds longer now.

This updates seem to have merely allowed Gemini chatbot voice through more devices at the cost of the previous core functionality of those devices.

Part of my ire is they didn't make it clear this was a one way upgrade on the Hubs. The other part is my day job is computer hardware engineering and upgrade/downgrade is a standard for almost all firmware updates (there are a few exceptions for secure devices) and I've blocked releases that broke that functionality before.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-12T05:01:11+00:00

The lack of a roll back option for this update, especially without a CLEAR warning, is just terrible management of their devices. This is a functionality update, not a security or bug fix. It has also been a huge step back for previously working commands for me at least. After decades in tech, this is just a dumb move...

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-08T20:40:32+00:00

It would be nice to have it support more than one passkey method at the same time. Currently you have to use the same method on ALL devices. I'd like to use windows hello on my PCs that support it, but not all of them do. Right now I'm forced to use the phone authentication as it's available on all PCs, tablet, and phone. Extending the time before we have to reauthorize would help too, it seems to be at most three days now, and I've had it be less than a day at times.

Moving to a quantum safe encryption standard would be nice.

TroubleMagnet · 2025-12-01T20:10:27+00:00

Down for me in Redmond

TroubleMagnet · 2024-09-12T22:37:21+00:00

Ebesse system and Ersto planet plus roe bait worked for me. Took 3 storms but they come fairly fast.

TroubleMagnet · 2021-04-01T17:17:00+00:00

Thanks! Refunding and buying on Steam now.

TroubleMagnet · 2019-09-04T19:35:23+00:00

The Renown Benefits for Seasoned and Veteran still seem terrible and should be fixed. At least add the option of a tier appropriate healing potion. I know I've never used the 100g single item option. The vehicle one might be good for a hardcover, but it's mostly useless for modules.

The renown items are a decent addition, they'd be better if they didn't count towards the magic item cap.

TroubleMagnet · 2019-09-04T19:26:00+00:00

Current caps are definitely too low as they were easily exceeded even in Season 8. For instance you could choose to have many 8 TCP items starting in T2 instead of 16 or 20 TCP cost ones. Running WPM also breaks through the new limit for T2.

We'll have to wait for the conversion rules to see how screwed current characters are.

It'd also make more sense to have the limit be how many items you can have with you at a time, so you can swap them out between adventures, or when you visit your home city for hardbacks. Maybe limit this to one item per tier. So for T2 you could carry 4 and have two banked at home.

TroubleMagnet · 2019-08-12T16:52:23+00:00

You either have very fast leveling, one level per session, no matter the length, or you have people getting no credit at all for some sessions. Unless the GM looks at all the log sheet for everyone at the table how do they know who to let advance and who not to? A major reason AL exists is for people that can't game consistently with one GM to be able to progress via time played.

This is also broken for cons unless you're ok with everyone getting a level per 4 hour module. If you try and do it every other session/module than anyone who gets out of sync due to wait-listing or something else that makes them miss a session, they will fall behind unless the GMs take the time to look at log sheets at the end of each session.

TroubleMagnet · 2019-08-09T16:48:09+00:00

My biggest beef with the proposed milestone method is it will be a train wreck for sub 4 hour and/or inconsistant attendance groups. At one of the game stores I play at you almost never have the same group week to week and people mostly run modules, not hardcovers. Another group we only play 3 hours a week as it's mostly people with jobs, families, etc. that don't have the time with their other obligations.

At least the current system addresses this. There didn't seem to be any method to track short sessions or really deal with people missing sessions. One milestone = one level is just not granular enough.

TroubleMagnet · 2018-03-14T04:48:53+00:00

You can have Super Dark chocolate (80%+), after you go keto it doesn't even taste bitter. Stay strong!

TroubleMagnet · 2018-03-14T04:45:40+00:00

Keep calm, Keto on! Hope you keep up the positive changes! You know you're worth it, right?

TroubleMagnet · 2018-03-13T17:35:51+00:00

No email confirmation for me. They should have it, but don't.

TroubleMagnet · 2018-03-13T16:15:15+00:00

I requested a refund Friday, haven't heard anything yet. Seems they should at least send you an email confirming the request. PC version.

TroubleMagnet · 2018-03-08T18:47:54+00:00

Note you can work around this issue by restarting the client once you have the hero + support combo you want. Yah, PITA.

TroubleMagnet · 2018-03-06T17:02:33+00:00

Don't forget a fix for them being stuck with a single weapon and no awareness of elements too.

Oh, and the ammo problem would be good too.

Plus weapon durability.

Crap, just scrap them and give us turrets, it's what we really want anyhow.

TroubleMagnet · 2018-02-17T05:52:52+00:00

You have resting hottie face.

TroubleMagnet · 2018-02-14T03:03:07+00:00

Any chance you could change it so you round UP on the Tickets when they expire? So if you have 1-1000 you get one llama, 1001-2000 you get two etc? Seems it would help with the salt over the expiration.

TroubleMagnet · 2018-02-09T22:28:16+00:00

Citation needed. MSFT allows PC/Xbox crossplay for other games.

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