Your very wrong here. This has nothing to do with Chromecast devices at all. That is all about Roon ready certification not Chromecasts. Roon Ready is when an appliance uses Roons own code on the machine and uses Roons streaming protocol RAAT. Manufacturers where releasing bad unfinished code in products so thet tightened up on certification. Chromecast is not Roon Ready it’s classed as Roon Tested which is very different and unaffected by the change to certification as they are not certified at all by Roon some are tested such as the official Google products some are not but this bares no relation to them stopping working or working in the first place. Roon continues to support Chromecast as a protocol to stream to tested or otherwise as I have several untested devices that have Chromecast built in and all work and are seen.
As for no warning all Roon ready partners were given over a year to get their ship in order to reach certification and some still failed, customers got a good few months warning. Apple nor Google would allow Airplay or Chromecast on a product if it didn’t work to the specs it should. Roon is doing the same. But as I said the thread you posted has zero to do with your problem and Chromecasts. Sony has never been a Roon partner and has only worked with Chromecast and still does.
Greetings CrystalGipsy Simon, As for the truth, I will not argue, but it does not work for me exactly as indicated in the link to Roon, in the previous post. Read carefully what is written there. I can additionally give a link to the Russian authoritative source:
Sorry but it’s wrong.very wrong. It’s only to do with Roon ready devices which Sony never has nor likely will release. I have a Sony TV works with Roon via Chromecast. I suggest you do your research a little more thoroughly.
Yes and I have had issues from time to time with Roon and Chromecast but it’s nothing to do with the post you put up at all. This is either some network interaction or bug that’s not showing in the majority of users and yours is an edge case.
Are you using any VPN at all? I have seen some odd behaviour when a Vpn is active on the same network also mDNS repeaters in routers have also thrown things off.
Hi Andrew_Mueller.
We, users of Sony SRS-X99, will either have to contact Sony support, which is more likely to be ineffective, or switch to another player. Roon is more likely to stick to its policies. I am already trying different options. And there are prospects.
Hi Geoff_Coupe.
I’m sorry, but you probably did not read the first posts. Airplay works fine, but its quality (16-bit limitation and 24-bit file transcoding) does not suit me. This is a flawed Hi-Res.
I had a temporary failure of CCA with my Onkyo 740. It would not show up as CC device until I completely shut down the entire network and restarted everything from the scratch piece by piece. I have some 25 devices in my network of which are 8 parts of my Roon audio network.
IMHO there is no connection between the announcement of Roon to employ their zero tolerance policy and the disappearance of CCA from your network
My Sony SRS-X99 has not disappeared from the network. And Roon sees it, but doesn’t connect. As it should be, according to the description of Roon himself.
I have updated the firmware to 1.60.3351 this has resolved the Chromecast issue.
Please be aware after updating the SRS-X99 you need to disconnect the ethernet cable connection and then use the wireless connection first time you attempt to use Chromecast or it won’t connect or work.
