So i got catt to work – outside of HA though, using a cron every 10 minutes.
Its not quite the same, but it is better than nothing.
@Maxi1134 did you manage to work out a way to use catt but still hide the menu / nav bar etc?
Yes! I use Custom Header to hide the Side and Top bar on my hub!
I am also seeing something similar. The Google Home Hub just goes back to the screensaver after a certain amount of time, even though the cast tabs still says it’s casting.
It seems that calling the cast service from HA doesn’t wake it up… Atleast it didn’t in my case.
As per Maxi, I changed mine to use catt, and have a cronjob running outside of HA every 20 minutes to reset it.
I did actually get a response from Google support re some instructions to disable ambient mode, but I haven’t tried it yet.
From Google support :
You can follow these steps to turn off the Ambient mode on your Google Nest Hub:
- Swipe up from bottom of the display
- Find the light icon in the lower left hand corner
- Check that there is an “A” in the light icon
- If there is, tap the light icon to turn Ambient EQ off
I tried those steps from Google support. They didn’t make a difference for me.
Same. It appears to just affect the brightness
Anyone knows if the Amazon “Hubs” have this issue?
You can’t cast to any of the amazon devices as far as I know.
Anyone has a good device to recommend that would fill this function without timeout?