topic Re: Need to disable Ambient Mode on my Chtomecast in Streaming

Need to disable Ambient Mode on my Chtomecast

Beastybunny — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:33:03 GMT

Ambient Mode keeps cutting off my music apps on Chromecast. My music apps play just fine but after a set amount of time, Ambient Mode kicks in, turning off my music. I cannot find any way of disabling this mode. If you are going toallow music apps on the device, your pother functions should not interfere with them.

Re: Need to disable Ambient Mode on my Chtomecast

MagicAndre1981 — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:11:05 GMT

You need to enable developer mode and use Android debug bridge from a PC/Laptop to disable it.

Connect Chromecast with Google TV to your TV.
Open Settings of the Chromecast with Google TV.
Go to the About section of the CCWGTV now.
Using the voice remote, navigate to the “Android TV OS Build” field. You can use an external mouse to highlight it too.
Now tap the Android TV OS Build 7 times. You can use the remote or mouse again.
This will enable the Developer Options in the System settings of the CCWGTV
Go to System > Developer Options > Enable USB Debugging mode.

Download the platform tools and expand it.

Open a cmd/terminal in the expanded folder and run the command to conect to your Chromecast:

adb connect YOURChromecastIP:5555

Next run the 2 commands:

adb shell

settings put system screen_off_timeout 86400000

Now timeout is set to 24hours which is very long and unlikely you don't touch the remote for that long time.

Now disconnect from the chromecast with thos 2 commands:

exit

adb disconnect YOURChromecastIP:5555

Re: Need to disable Ambient Mode on my Chtomecast

Beastybunny — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:11:45 GMT

Thank you for the reply and instructions. I will do my best but this is way out of my area of experience.

I cannot believe there isn't just a toggle on the damned thing that turns it off or at least let me change the time to an hour or something. Very poor design and not user friendly.

If anyone from Google would care to explain to me why this feature is set up the way it is, I would be thrilled. Please convince me this is a pro-consumer feature on this device.

Re: Need to disable Ambient Mode on my Chtomecast

MagicAndre1981 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:57:53 GMT

Send it as feedback to Google:

Send feedback about Google TV - Google TV Help

I also miss the option and this adb way worked for me for the Chromecast and also in the past for my old FireTV Stick 4K.