I’m using chromecast for tts and web radio. Tts plays without delay. But web radio streams have pause between 10 - 20 seconds before playing starts. If i use tune in app for same radio stream chromecast plays it instantly. I haven’t seen this behaviour before. Has anyone experienced similar problem? Homeassistant is on 0.74.2 version.
Mine started doing the same about a week ago, haven’t investigated it any further so can’t help any more than to say “it’s not just you”
I tried to use service call to exclude problems with automations and scripts but it buffers again.
Issue still persist.
Workaround is to run media_player.media_play few seconds after media_player.play_media.
Check this post: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/16319#issuecomment-476351385
I have set 3 seconds in my setup and the delay/buffering is much shorter than before.
Yes the trick of doing media_player.media_play a few seconds later works for me too!