Anyone's Chromecast stopped working?

Seems there is a widespread problem with Google Chromecast. Mine isn't working. Cant believe how dependent Ive become on it. If this doesn't resolve itself soon I might even spend some quality time with my family.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/8u82xp/chromeca…

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  • +1

    From today the Chromecast button disappeared from my mobile youtube app.

  • Nah all good here

  • Yes today I got no Chromecast button or icon on my YouTube app. Android phone.

    • Thanks for that. Good old Google, eh?

  • Mines not working either. I tried resetting it and stuff. No good. So I contacted google on Twitter and they said it's a known issue and they're working on it.

  • After reading that reddit thread just imagine how many combined hours were wasted by people around the world tonight resetting their ccs, routers, casting devices etc. Thankfully I only mucked around for about an hour before finding out about the issue online.

    • Exactly. I must have spent at least two hours tonight. Plus imagine how potty-mouthed my children are going to be from hearing me swear all night.

      • I spen't more than two hours. I thought I had errors with multiple devices being assigned the same IP. Messed around with routers for hours.

  • +1

    Omg I’m not alone

    • No you are never alone and never will be

      • No matter where you go, there you are.

        Of course if you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.

  • Mine not working either. I spent a couple of hours reconfiguring my network to try and fix it. I ended up giving up. Then I saw this..

  • yesterday evening Netflix, YouTube and plus 7 app didn't have cast icon appearing. Thought it was my phone. after resetting it repeatedly but failing to get it working, I spat the dummy and went to bed early.

  • My google devices start apologizing and tell me to try again in a few seconds before I've even finished saying "hey google" https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/google-home-and-chromecast…

    EDIT: I wonder if people who use these as alarm clocks will be getting to work on time today?

  • I love the “quality time with the family” comment. I wonder how many marriages chromecast has saved by people not having to talk to each other

  • I blamed it on the iView update.
    We had to watch iView through my Fire Stick's Kodi install instead!

  • LMAO I thought i was alone on this and it was my router coz i changed some settings, glad it isn't just me…

  • +1
  • +1

    Yep mine stopped working last night. Managed to fix itself up around 8pm EST. All hell nearly broke loose in the household

    • +3

      I was trying to stream PJ Masks to the TV and I couldnt. My kid was screaming like he was a victim of some war crime. Eventually he had to just watch it on a smartphone. This is why we never go camping.

      • +1

        OH the horror. As a parent of 3.5 year old toddler I can totally relate to this

        • +1

          You two are the real heroes. My partner had just served dinner, and it was going cold with no Dawsons Creek to watch. My one job as tv tech guy…failed.

        • @stevil:

          If you haven't seen Don't Trust the B—— in Apartment 23, it's worth it just for James Van Der Beek playing James Van Der Beek.

  • Merged from Google cast and Home Global outage. Resolved?

    Globally, Google Cast services and Home are down since around 11 am ADST yesterday. Issues take many forms. For me, all my six google devices are working fine themselves. However, the "cast" button on all google cast enabled apps like Netflix, TuneIn etc have disappeared on control devices like phones and tablets. Yes, there is no cast button on even the YouTube app!

    Google says they have fixed this today. They advise to power cycle affected devices. Haven't worked for me yet. All apps remain without the "cast" button.

    Were you affected?
    If resolved, how?

  • Mine works. After turning on the chrome cast, the device updated itself and allowed me to stream Netflix and youtube. But I can't see my google home appear in the casting menu. Only chrome cast devices.

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