There’s excellent news on the horizon for Chromecast homeowners annoyed that their units have stopped streaming and begun displaying error messages as a substitute: Google says it has began pushing out a repair.
As Iain Thomson of The Register experiences, the corporate says that its deployment of a repair for the crippled units will roll out in phases over the subsequent few days:
Though there isn’t any official message on the help web page as but, Google has confirmed to us it would push out a patch over the web to folks’s Chromecasts in the course of the subsequent few days to handle the error. Leaving your ‘solid powered on and related to the ‘internet needs to be sufficient to select up the repair.
The firmware replace shifts the units over to a brand new Google-owned certificates authority, with an expiry date of 2045. Which suggests Chromecast customers ought to have an additional 20 years to complete the binge of their favorite Netflix collection, huzzah!
The information cannot have come too quickly for the various Chromecast customers who’ve discovered themselves unable to stream their favorite TV exhibits, motion pictures, and different media.
Many customers have expressed their annoyance with Google in regards to the size of time it has taken the tech large to contact affected customers.
As an illustration, product supervisor David Graham posted on Twitter that it had taken Google 4 days to acknowledge that there was an issue together with his 2nd Era Chromecast, leaving him to ponder that if he hadn’t seen social media posts in regards to the challenge he would have thought he was the one one affected.
Sadly, though there may be excellent news for folks’s Chromecasts which stopped working because of the expired certificates, there isn’t any repair but for these customers who took it upon themselves to conduct a manufacturing unit reset considering (incorrectly) that it could not do any hurt.
One reader of The Register, as an illustration, posted about his frustration after having adopted Google’s customary on-line recommendation to carry out a manufacturing unit reset if all different treatments to issues didn’t assist.
Sadly, it seems factory-reset units can’t presently hook up with the web, and it seems to be probably that Google should push out an replace to its House app in an try to resolve the difficulty.
