Since upgrading to Core 2024.12.3 my Google Chromecast and Google speakers keep disconnecting. I am now restoring to 2024.12.2 and hope that will resolve the issue.
Hello EndUser,
Usually the Google Cast and TTS stuff breaks because of a problem with external access to the cloud. The cloud server has to be able to get the generated sound / vid data back into your system, and if you are running a locally verified certificate or have a problem with your external_url, it will not find a way back in.
Any changes like that recently?
Use pihole or adguard or other DNS Blocker,k that also can cause this.
Thise things are the usual suspects.
Do a search here, this question is asked several time a week and some people have found the answers to their issues, but I don’t know of any change or rate of failure increase recently.
My Google Cast has been pretty solid. Yes occasionally the streaming stops, but I created “buttons” in my HA dashboard to restart the streaming.
Before, I had Sonos and it actually was way worse than my current setup.
I only stream radio stations and therefore, by definition, I am exposed to the cloud. I guess that it is more solid to cast music that I have stored in my system, but my objective was (and is) to stream specific radio stations from four different countries, so the occasional hickup is ok with me.