Ambient Mode settings have no effect

[jorisw]

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?

[Byteguy · Accepted solution]

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.

[Byteguy · Accepted solution]

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.

[jorisw · Accepted solution]

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

Chromecast should be clearer about this. 

[Jeran]

Hey there,

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

Thank you,
Jeran
 

[Jeran]

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