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Home Assistant Connect AUX-2 gives your old speakers and TVs a second life for $69 (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 12 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

Very nice. I have some ancient Chrome cast audio dongles that I don't think I could even set up any more. Google has kind of abandoned them. They were really nice for what they were. Now I have a good candidate to replace them all.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    Chromecast Audio was such a cool thing that they just killed for no reason whatsoever. Chromecast was a thing, you could cast music, there was no deprecation needed.

    It's been years but I have one of these home assistant ones (A different model) and it's just like the Chromecast Audio was.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    My personal theory about why they killed it off is because you could only get an audio ad and not a video ad on them, lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago

    Even more so, the Chromecast series could not display ads on their own to my knowledge. I don’t even think their hardware was made to support it. They were literally audio/video stream parrots directly from a web stream. The ads were only delivered if the source had ads.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 child)

    They killed them because Sonos sued them.

    Edit: Or do you mean the updates that basically bricked them so Google didn't have to continue providing the infrastructure for them?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    I have to hand it to google in this one very specific instance - chromecast audio still works.

    When the certificates expired or something like that, there was a fix within a week.

    I would never trust a new google product but they have continued to support this one for whatever reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    Yes, my fear at the moment thoug. Is that at some point in the future I will have a need to move or reconfigure it. I recently had a cheap little projector that I wanted to use a modern Chromecast TV with. But being a basic cheap thing that I got for fifty dollars, it only supported 720p and probably missing HDMI DRM. Chromecast TV just refused outright.

    I went and pulled a first gen Chromecast out of a drawer. Reset and tried to reconfigure it. No matter what device I tried with. Both initializing it or display output seemed to want to work.

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