So I have a bit of a long running problem that's driving me a bit crazy.
Four Nest Minis and two Chromecast devices (one is even brand new Chromecast with TV, tried to upgrade it to see if it helped with this issue and it doesn't.)
Playing music to a speaker group including all of them has two major issues that have persisted.
Sometimes the Chromecasts only will begin to have choppy playback and just go totally garbage. Restarting them doesn't fix it. This even happens to the Chromecast that is literally a few feet from the router (ethernet isn't an option else I would do that..) and does not affect the Minis at all. Chromecast in question is brand new out of box literally.
The more persistent and problematic issue, however, is it will stop playing and disconnect from the media player quite randomly. Sometimes it's fine for 30 minutes or an hour, sometimes several hours, sometimes it works all day, sometimes it's worthless and fails constantly.
I would normally chalk it up to a Spotify issue but, on a whim, I recently decided to try YT Music and see if that worked. Long story short: Same problem.
This leads me to believe it's an issue with the speaker group/Google Home and not the app casting the music. Restarting doesn't help, plus it's a huge pain to have to go through and reset six or seven different devices anyways and that is not a solution. I bought the devices specifically to play music to as a group and that's the only purpose they serve.
Each mini is placed around the house with mic disabled and already has the movement detection or whatnot turned off to minimize issues. Not sure what else to try - I already looked online and can't find any kind of debugging/error log I can look at to even know where to start.
