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Home Assistant Connect AUX-2 gives your old speakers and TVs a second life for $69
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No Thread support is kind of weird.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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Very nice. I have some ancient Chrome cast audio dongles that I don't think I could even set up any more. Google has kind of abandoned them. They were really nice for what they were. Now I have a good candidate to replace them all.
Chromecast Audio was such a cool thing that they just killed for no reason whatsoever. Chromecast was a thing, you could cast music, there was no deprecation needed.
It's been years but I have one of these home assistant ones (A different model) and it's just like the Chromecast Audio was.
My personal theory about why they killed it off is because you could only get an audio ad and not a video ad on them, lol.
They killed them because Sonos sued them.
Edit: Or do you mean the updates that basically bricked them so Google didn't have to continue providing the infrastructure for them?