Hiort wrote:

I looks as if M5 and A6 are a bit lost with regards to Chromecast....

Hiort wrote:

mbolo01 wrote:

Hiort wrote:

I have asked support why the old CC version is kept.

Will be good to know as without an upgrade these products can't benefit from the flexibility of adding/removing them from playing session.

Back to the screenshot I posted, as HAWK answered, it is the Google Home App / Multimedia button that shows what's currently playing and from where you can control products individually assuming they have a recent CC software.

Hopefully this feature will be supported by more and more app or OS.

Got the following reply from B&O on my question why Chromecast was not updated and when A6 will receive an update of its firmware:

The update would not be with the Chromecast firmware but with the M5 and A6's firmware itself. The two are distinct from one another and updates to the Chromecast firmware are no longer possible.
Different generations of devices will have different Chromecast firmware.
As the update for the M5 was to its firmware the A6's update is still in development.

I looks as if M5 and A6 are a bit lost with regards to Chromecast....

Thanks, pity to hear, probably that will also be the case for the Essence MK2. Latest firmware there is from 11 December 2020 (v1.24.41627.xxxxxxxxx).  The Chromecastr version is 1.28.102057.

As said, happily it is visible in the Google Home app and in apps like Spotify and TuneIN and it is working as it should (Deezer is still buggy, also on all other brands with Chromecast). Also the "radio buttons" to add/delete a speaker on the fly is working, but there it starts to get buggy (if you deselect the Essence on the fly, it is removed from the GH Group you were playing from permantently..........). 

So it looks that Chromecast will no longer work for the A6 at all?  The technical support department’s reply that an update’s  “not possible“ doesn’t make a lot of sense. I wish they had explained it better. It only reaffirms my choice to get a Chromecast audio dongle and plug it in. I grant that the DAC is not as good as the one in the unit, but it’s better than not having it at all. Really frustrating.

I don't believe it's the case that CC will not work.  I believe it is the case that newer, advanced CC features like dynamically adjustable groups will not work.

I hope the Chromecast audio dongle works well for you because mine does not.  It is the most unreliable of all my CC devices.

Stan

Hiort wrote:

The update would not be with the Chromecast firmware but with the M5 and A6's firmware itself. The two are distinct from one another and updates to the Chromecast firmware are no longer possible.

And yet they are sprinting forward with CC and doing little or nothing with their own NL protocol over which they have total control.

If you look in my signature you'll see that I have 11 different endpoints purchased over the past ~6 years that work with NL,  and have support for TuneIn and Deezer.  I just got a Level which is a beautiful device but doesn't work with any of the 11 other B&O products, nor does it work with TuneIn Radio or Deezer which are the two services I set up to work with all the other devices.  I really love the Level, but I'm struggling as to whether to keep something that doesn't work with anything else I own.

It makes absolutely no sense to me that they are releasing new products that don't work with the other things they've been selling for years.  The whole reason I got into B&O (other than the beautiful design) is that their NL system was miles ahead of what anyone else had to offer.  New products that won't work with old products gives me no upgrade path.  :(

Hi, particularly my M5 keeps bothering me. it’s Running on the latest Firmware 1.24 and out of the blue it suddenly makes trouble. 

stampfki wrote:

Additionally it has been also disappeared from the Google app as chrome cast device.

So is it said now that we don’t get GC back on our Beosound/Beoplays?

would be quite a joke have spend a fortune and getting cut off services!

So Ive been having issues since mid-January and have only been following the reddit forums for updates, glad I found more people with this issue. Strange thing is that, it hasn't ever been fixed for me? Some people say they can see their M5 on spotify but I still cannot. In fact, when I open the app to check the chromecast version, there is nothing in that field?? It used to say 1.28.102057... but now its empty. Chromecast still doesnt work for me and Im wondering if other peoples M5 has been fixed or if its just me? Ive factory reset like 20 times at least and also router reset. Please tell me if anyone has found a fix.

This is a screenshot of what I see.