Google Chromecast Audio receiver with rebooting in progress, showing orange pilot lamp.
Gives the Restart Chromecast Audio Directions. Now you may wish to do this if you notice the following.
Always try a Chromecast Audio device restart first (described here), as this often clears up many problems, and avoids the unnecessary action of hard resetting your receiver.
To restart Chromecast Audio if you’re near it, you can do the following.
The best way is to unplug the far end of the USB cord from the AC outlet.
The Chromecast Audio will finish rebooting in less than a minute after you plug it back in.
But perhaps you are far away from your Chromecast Audio receiver. E.g. Maybe you are downstairs from it. In that case, you can send a restart command to it via the Google Home app as follows. Plus, you don’t have to get near it.
This method depends on the following.
If all of that is in place, then do the following, to effect a remote device restart.
We’re using an iPad Air computer tablet in this demo. And, this app is located on page three of the iPad’s home screen, although yours may appear in a different location, depending on how many apps you have installed as well as how you might have arranged them.
Upon running this app, the Google home screen appears, as follows.
This control is found in the top left corner of the Home app Home screen, as pointed at in the last picture by the pink arrow.
So tapping the Hamburger control brings up the main menu as shown next.
This brings up a list of your local Google devices that have been configured on the current Google account, as shown next for our case.
Look for that Chromecast by scrolling down through the list until you find it. We currently only have one of these, called “bedroom speakers.” So we found ours straight away, as shown next.
Fine that control menu link in the top right corner of the Chromecast Audio card, as shown inside the purple circle in the last picture.
The Chromecast’s control menu then appears, as shown next.
The Reboot option is circled in purple in the previous picture. The Reboot Confirmation dialog then displays, something like that shown in the next picture.
This initiates a remote restart of your Chromecast receiver, closes the reboot confirmation dialog box, and returns you to the Devices List screen. Your receiver will temporarily disappear from this screen as it restarts, and will reappear once the restart finishes.
Note the light on your Chromecast Audio device. It should indicate that a restart is in progress within thirty seconds of your issuing the command, by turning from white to orange, as shown next. The purple arrow points at the orange pilot lamp in the next picture.
Once the receiver again appears in the Devices List in the Home app, and its pilot light has turned from orange back to white again, restart has finished successfully, and you can once again try casting to it. Hopefully, restarting the unit has solved any issues you were having. But if not, you can always try more drastic measures, such as resetting your Chromecast, and then setting it up again.
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