core: Google Cast doesn't connect after discovery

The problem

i can add the intergration and it will setup and find all the devices, but then it says there all off-line

What is version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2021.3.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Google Cast

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/cast

Example YAML snippet

_No response_

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Logger: pychromecast.socket_client
Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py:392
First occurred: 20:31:30 (6 occurrences)
Last logged: 20:34:18

[Charlie’s Room(10.10.30.62):8009] Failed to connect to service Google-Nest-Hub-3bca9f909abfa64adbb6aedf1117b6a0._googlecast._tcp.local., retrying in 5.0s
[Office(10.10.30.63):8009] Failed to connect to service Google-Nest-Hub-Max-edac32520beb476484d158b760addb07._googlecast._tcp.local., retrying in 5.0s
[Lounge(10.10.30.64):8009] Failed to connect to service Google-Nest-Hub-Max-d7f4c704e156ca7c2bdb5d2ab7b62295._googlecast._tcp.local., retrying in 5.0s
[Master Bedroom(10.10.30.60):8009] Failed to connect to service Google-Nest-Hub-b0622a3e1ddaa48a27ddd7b4b0785b1b._googlecast._tcp.local., retrying in 5.0s
[Everywhere(10.10.30.63):32251] Failed to connect to service Google-Cast-Group-F8AA457C0CE5439C8774979AD2355175-1._googlecast._tcp.local., retrying in 5.0s

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 18 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@emontnemery, short answer is yes this worked for me. What is interesting though, as soon as I add a known host the automatic discovery will find all of the cast devices that are part of the same home group. So If I put all of the cast devices into a single large group, I only have to add one known host.

Thanks again.

You’re right, the documentation update was forgotten.

Here’s how to configure it:

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