I’ve been having this problem for months, maybe 6, and I assumed Plex Amp was just an unsupported research project but I’m a Plex pass member and my kids are being driven nuts so I thought I’d check in and it looks like others aren’t having the same problem. Simply put, I have loads of Google devic…

It’s a weird one, it seems to work fine for some people, not for others. In the next release we’ve updated some libraries to hopefully improve the issue, let’s see if it does.

I’m having the same problem lately. It takes forever to connect—if it even connects at all. More often than not, it just never does. All my devices are wired via Ethernet and grouped as a single speaker system. You can cast to one, hear the beep, and… that’s it. Anything with a screen won’t work be…

“But please please please fix this” speakers are absolutely useless if you have to listen to what “Google” “demands” you to listen to a.k.a. “YouTube music Spotify”, or any other that “pays them” Honestly, I think Google just wants to force people onto their own services—YouTube Music, Spotify, or …

Feel free to post a log, “completely broken” is not super descriptive. The next release contains a few fixes which may improve things.

Yup agree, I could have done a much better job describing it, apologies for that! attaching the recent log file and a couple of screenshots. Some more information: This is me trying to connect to one of my chromecast targets at home. I have multiple endpoints (KEF LS50 Wireless II, WiiM pro etc) a…

Unfortunately we’re just getting these back from the (lovely) speaker: Mar 17, 2025 09:39:51.737 [Javascript] INFO - Cast: Failed to play again Disconnected from receiver It’s the Plex cast receiver code running on the speaker, at some point we might write a new Plexamp receiver, but that’s not be…

Alright, thanks for looking into it. browsing for a bit i bumped into ‘headless’ and decided to check it out, and it works even better for me then casting to the speaker! I know it’s off-topic but would be great to get an official docker image for it :wink:

A new plexamp cast receiver would be greatly appreciated.

By me as well…unfortunately lots of competing priorities here.

PlexAmp regularly cannot cast to Google devices

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assafw March 16, 2025, 9:21am 5

@elan - I was wondering if there’s any update on this issue? I’ve reported issues with Chromecast last July. There hasn’t been a plexamp release since December and playing via Chromecast is completely broken (at least on my setup).

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PlexAmp regularly cannot cast to Google devices

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