Google cast stops after 30 seconds - Nest hub

[hemandk]

Hi,

After the Nest Hub is updated to Fuchsia it stops if I cast home assistant after 30 seconds now instead of 10 minutes as before.

Would it be possible to Use disableIdleTimeout as mentioned in Google docs?

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/web_receiver/cast.framework.CastReceiverOptions

window.castReceiverManager.start({statusText: "Application is starting", disableIdleTimeout: true});

this was also mentioned in the following issue that was closed:
#335

[skorokithakis]

Hmm, @theychx, would a custom receiver solve this?

[theychx]

I think this relates to cast_site, so we would have to roll our own version of dashcast (or similar).

[scooper1]

Can we clone dashcast to make a update I am having similar problems

[tungmeister]

same issue here - dies after ~30 seconds unless I interact with it

[maxi1134]

Would love for a solution to this!

I can test anything on my end on multiple Nest Hubs if you guys need!

[dannymertens]

Same issue on one off my hubs :-(

[mw1066]

It seems Google have removed the only useful feature of the Nest Hub - being able to cast to it with CATT, 10 mins timeout was bad enough, but 30s is crazy. Time to bin it.

[jimbovp]

Same problem here. +1 for a solution. Any chance to find a way to "keep the hub busy"? Like having cast_site behave the same way cast does?
For what it's worth, I send a feedback to Google to change the timeout back to 10 minutes or alternatively make it configurable. Don't know if it will change anything, but maybe if enough of us ask the same thing....

[Joost1985]

Same problem here, would be fantastic when somebody can solve this.

[lolouk44]

Chiming in as I have the same issue too.

[dannymertens]

Any updates about this, or someone another solution because it is really annoying now for the family not one of my dashboards is working now, makes it very hard to control stuff in the house for the wife who does not have a smartphone or something like that :-(

[scooper1]

You can do a Google pub sub to control ha via Google hubs just can have useful status display

[dannymertens]

You can do a Google pub sub to control ha via Google hubs just can have useful status display

Hi @scooper1 thanks for your quick reply! I tried to Google it but to be honest not completely clear how to go further here, do you have some example on how I can use this for casting my dashboards to the Nest hubs?

Thanks!

[scooper1]

Sorry no dashboard cast   but it does provide way for Google to control things on ha via a simple screen display.   It's not like a dashboard      it you really want dash board then a old  tablet might solve problems long term.    

[dannymertens]

OK, clear I already use Google relay in HA for devices that are not native supported by HA but do work with Google Assistant, works great for things like that.
But for easy controlling devices, scripts, automations I have almost in every room a Nest Hub with a dedicated dashboard what was working great then we got the 10-minute timeout but that we could overcome by casting every 9 minutes again, but now 30 seconds is just crazy!! Thanks for your support, so still hoping that the team can fix CATT because that was working flawless before!