Chromecast Audio Conundrum
Been a Roon subscriber since the late 2010s, always using Chromecast Audio (9 of em!) as my endpoints for whole home audio. For the most part, they've worked well, but over the past year, in Roon, not so great. My Roon server loses contact with them randomly, sometimes fixed by a server reboot, sometimes not (recently not at all).
You've heard all this before, of course, and it is almost always a network issue. But here's where things get weird:
- All but one of my endpoints are hard-wired into the LAN by Cat6 (the one is a JBL wifi speaker),
1b. My server (a dedicated Lenovo Tiny minicomputer with an (overkill I know) 32GB of Ram, no firewall or antivirus other than built in with Win 11) also on LAN via Cat6
The Unifi router/gateway combo is less than 2 years old and has never dropped a connection that I am aware of (in contrast to previous Asus "high end consumer" routers
(Weirdest part) I have NEVER had a problem connecting all my speakers or any combo thereof via another Chromecast app (VRadio) which always sees all enabled endpoints and groups as set up in Google Home, and never drops them...
In short, it is only Roon, and if it is still a network issue, I am powerless to know why or how to fix. If anyone else has experience with or knowledge of this, please chime in! Thanks.