Same here with my Essence.

After a restart it’s there again (but for how long?).

Hopefully the B&O guys will solve that problem with the Google people.

MM

Updates reached my A6, M5 and M3.

No improvement for Chromecast (<1.4x) usability for sure.

Bass improvement for the M5 and the A6 I think too.

I hate the new M5 click sound when rotating the upper disk, far far too loud .... I initially thought I had an electrical problem with the device.

Don’t know what the M3 got, but no regression so far which is already a good thing.

Edit: Core was updated too

Stan wrote:

It's always worth asking...  maybe they say no, maybe they take pity... 

Support wants to come back to me - not sure if this will ever happen. Anyhow, could solve the issue. I have used the BeoTool App to change the M5 serial manually from 0000000 to the right one as mentioned on the device. And guess what, it immediately appeared again in the B&O app as new device.

My Essence MK2 and the M3 both updated today.

Did not have the chance to do any testing....yet.

MM

Millemissen wrote:

My Essence MK2 and the M3 both updated today.

Did not have the chance to do any testing....yet.

MM

My Essence MK2 also got a fw update (to v1.25.42740.xxxxx), but GC still the same version. And after reboot directly the GC authentication error again :(

Reboot again.........played one song using GC, but then again the same error and disappeared from Google Home app / group. 

Don't know what they improved in this version, but certainly not the GC functionality. We are waiting for a GC upgrade (from v1.28 to v1.44 or higher). 

I updated my M3 and Essences with a new release today.  For now, they show up in Google Home, not that I had any problems with the M3.  Hopefully, they will stay all with it now.  Still having issues with my BS2 (first gen).

Can confirm the same behaviour, received the update for my M5's couple of days ago. the issue with Chromecast is still there...
What a fail B&O, I'm having multiple expensive but worthless pieces of sh*t M5's now thanks to your absolute failure to support the basic functionalities.

I guess it's time to kick out the B&O shi*te and replace them by a real premium brand like B&W

Interesting.  I don't have an M5, but my Essences have been more stable since the most recent update.  My M3 has always been stable.

If you go to B&W good luck, and I hope it works out.  Personally, I think chromecast is just unstable in general.  Up until my B&O devices started flaking out over the last few months, my Google chromecast audio was, by far, my least reliable chromecast device (so unreliable that my wife has given up even trying to use it).  Granted, it only cost $40, but if Google can't even get their own devices to work reliably, what chance do 3rd parties have? 

A6, A9MkII, Edge, Core all still not working with chromecast, hopefully it will be back soon as my multi room is not functioning.