topic Re: Ambient Mode settings have no effect in Streaming

Ambient Mode settings have no effect

jorisw — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:36:54 GMT

I cannot seem to stop my Chromecast from displaying curated artwortks. I want to turn this off because it over-illuminates the room fiercly when I'm trying to view some videos late at night.

I keep selecting Google Photos in which I have a Favorites album from Google Photos, in which I have four black screenshots selected. The Google Home app loads while it sends the settings to the Chromecast. But the Chromecast ignores the setting and keeps showing curated artworks.

I can imagine that the screenshots don't live up to the Chromecast's quality bar, but why silently fall back to an option I did not choose?

Re: Ambient Mode settings have no effect

Byteguy — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:57:57 GMT

Four photos may not be enough. Sorry, I know there is a minimum, but I don't know what it is.

Try setting it to a lot more photos and see if it works.

Re: Ambient Mode settings have no effect

Jeran — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:41:11 GMT

Hey there,

Did you have any more questions or need any additional help?

Thank you,
Jeran

Re: Ambient Mode settings have no effect

jorisw — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:01:01 GMT

Thanks. Adding 10 landscape black blanks and favoriting them all did the trick.

Chromecast should be clearer about this.

Re: Ambient Mode settings have no effect

Jeran — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 18:28:41 GMT

Hey there!

It looks like Byteguy was able to help out jorisw, so I'm locking the thread. As always, feel free to make a new thread if you have any more questions or concerns.

Thank you for your help, Byteguy!

Best regards,
Jeran