3 stars: Chromecast is handy for the most part. There are times when it'll just cut off randomly or I can't connect for some reason. The only thing that would make my life so much easier when using YouTube, the shuffle would continuously shuffle. For example, I will put on a playlist and it will play in order unless I stay on my phone and make sure it keeps shuffling. Other than that, I enjoy chromecast.
4 stars: It is good when it works. When there are problems support is minimal and consists of blaming your device even if everyone has the same problem. After resetting, reinstalling, reconfiguring and wasting 2 days of your time you are exactly where you were 2 days ago. This should be expected since it was quite clear in the outset, that your device is not the problem. Very frustrating.
4 stars: I used to be able to tap on the current picture displayed on my Chromecast and see the picture information. This was helpful when you see something you like from your library of tens of thousands of pictures and want to find or share it. Now it just takes me to ambient settings, which is already accessible from other areas of the app. Very annoying.
5 stars: Updating my rating. Originally I had some problems with devices disappearing randomly because we didn't follow the instructions. Everybody in the house setup their own group with the same name but they were not the same group. It's actually much easier than that. We've been using the Google home app for over a year s...