Issues with Google cast devices

What version of Music Assistant has the issue?

2022.7.0

The problem

Since my upgrade to the final version, I observe significant more often casting errors. Off course this can be an networking issue on my side, but I don’t observe other issues and believe it could be related to the last update.

How to reproduce

Casting to a CC player

Relevant log output

Logger: homeassistant.components.cast.media_player
Source: components/cast/media_player.py:395 
Integration: Google Cast (documentation, issues) 
First occurred: 19:37:25 (1 occurrences) 
Last logged: 19:37:25

Failed to cast media http://192.168.178.47:8095/media_player.audio57serre/next. Please make sure the URL is: Reachable from the cast device and either a publicly resolvable hostname or an IP address 

Logger: music_assistant.players.stream
Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/music_assistant/controllers/streams.py:466 
First occurred: 18:39:19 (2 occurrences) 
Last logged: 19:37:36

Abort: client(s) did not connect within 10 seconds.

Additional information

No response

What version of Home Assistant Core are your running

2022.7.6

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

On what type of hardware are you running?

Raspberry Pi

[marcelveldt]

Found the root cause for the connectivity issues with cast - fixed in 2022.7.2

[marcelveldt]

I managed to find the trigger for the issues with cast but not the root cause. For now I’ve disabled a part of the code that triggers the issue (the deadlocking behavior) - that fix is available in the 2022.7.1 patch release.

I will look into the issue in more depth later but at least there’s a temporary fix available. Side effect for this temporary effect is that you can now no longer press next on a google device itself (or shout next track to the google assistant).

Please test if 2022.7.1 gives more stability to Cast devices.