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.
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 since with not even a hickup.
5 stars: Very easy to add and manage your smart speakers. Not sure how it runs with 3rd party brands. I have 2 Google Homes and 3 mini speakers throughout my house and they sync perfectly fine. However, when casting through the browser to stream videos, there is a significant sound delay, about 2-3 seconds. I wished that would be ...