[SOLVED] [Google TTS] Chromecast Audio Sink not working

Dim · December 2, 2018, 5:19pm

I don’t think so…
Your Chromecast is on your LAN and needs to talk to your local OH2 port.
You can configure your firewall to allow only that host from your LAN to access OH2 if you want to block all local access (you don’t trust your LAN ? )

Drustus · December 2, 2018, 5:56pm

So you recommend shut down the firewall?

Dim · December 2, 2018, 5:58pm

Not necessarily
You can open up selected IPs if you don’t trust the hosts that can connect to your LAN.
It’s an internal firewall anyway (running on your Windows PC)
It’s not the firewall on your Internet Gateway. This one protects you from external attacks.

Drustus · December 2, 2018, 5:59pm

Ok, thank you so much!

Dim · December 2, 2018, 6:01pm

you are welcome
plz keep the solution mark on this post: [Solved] [Google TTS] Chromecast Audio Sink not working
Future readers should see that this was resolved by allowing the Chromecast to talk to the OH2 port.

You can only have 1 solution checkbox in a thread

Drustus · December 2, 2018, 6:02pm

Ok, sorry!

Dim · December 2, 2018, 6:02pm

No worries

andirs · December 28, 2018, 3:26pm

Hello, i hope somebody can help me with this small issue:

I am using my Chromecast audiosinks for music playback (e.g. Spotify).
When i send a sound or tts to it while music is playing the playback is stopped and the “active app” changes to “Default Media Receiver”. Is it somehow possible to automatically resume the music?

Thanks

wborn · December 28, 2018, 3:32pm

Hi @andirs. It’s currently a known issue, see: