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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 3 hours ago (3 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 3 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 1 hour 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 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    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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