Chromecast vs SPDIF auto sensing bug?

[workingintro]

First off - love the streamer! Finally a great product to replace my raspberry pi streamer.

My Wiim Pro is a pre-amp with TV coming in via SPDIF-In, and streamer outputting via SPDIF-out. With turned on auto sensing of Line In/SPDIF in- it works most of the time but seems to be running into chromecast specific bug?

Auto sensing does not seem to be working when using Google Assistant to cast music to a chromecast device. For example Google Assistant is told to stop music but auto sensing never kicks in no matter how long I wait. And weirder, if you open the Wiim app on phone, there appears to be a "ghost" track playing without any album / sound details. Really strange.

Other methods like normal YouTube music app to Chromecast or Apple Music via airplay 2 seems to work fine with auto sensing.

Has anyone else encountered this?
@WiiM Team

 

[adias]

Yes the sensing is buggy.

 

[WiiM Support]

First off - love the streamer! Finally a great product to replace my raspberry pi streamer.

My Wiim Pro is a pre-amp with TV coming in via SPDIF-In, and streamer outputting via SPDIF-out. With turned on auto sensing of Line In/SPDIF in- it works most of the time but seems to be running into chromecast specific bug?

Auto sensing does not seem to be working when using Google Assistant to cast music to a chromecast device. For example Google Assistant is told to stop music but auto sensing never kicks in no matter how long I wait. And weirder, if you open the Wiim app on phone, there appears to be a "ghost" track playing without any album / sound details. Really strange.

Other methods like normal YouTube music app to Chromecast or Apple Music via airplay 2 seems to work fine with auto sensing.

Has anyone else encountered this?
@WiiM Team

Hi there, thanks for reporting this bug to us. We'll reproduce in our lab and fix it shortly. Please stay tuned!

 

[WiiM Support]

Yes the sensing is buggy.

Hi Adias, could you please help elaborate your issue so we can reproduce it in our lab? Thank you!

 

[workingintro]

Hi there, thanks for reporting this bug to us. We'll reproduce in our lab and fix it shortly. Please stay tuned!

Thanks for looking into it. Hopefully you can reproduce and find a resolution.

 

[WiiM Support]

Thanks for looking into it. Hopefully you can reproduce and find a resolution.

Yes, we can reproduce the issue with the Google assistant and will fix it shortly. Thank you!

 

[adias]

Hi Adias, could you please help elaborate your issue so we can reproduce it in our lab? Thank you!

It happens this way: Initially the streamer is streaming from WiFi and sending out to SPDIF OUT. I stop that steam (usually in the WiiM app) and turn on a TV sending audio to the WiiM Pro SPDIF IN. The steamer should detect the SPDIF IN and start streaming that to the SPDOF OUT. It does not do that. I have to open the WiiM app and manually (in the Browser) select the SPDIF IN input.

 

[adias]

It happens this way: Initially the streamer is streaming from WiFi and sending out to SPDIF OUT. I stop that steam (usually in the WiiM app) and turn on a TV sending audio to the WiiM Pro SPDIF IN. The steamer should detect the SPDIF IN and start streaming that to the SPDOF OUT. It does not do that. I have to open the WiiM app and manually (in the Browser) select the SPDIF IN input.

Ok… I had the Standby setting set to Never. Changing it to 30s the port change works fine.

 

[WiiM Support]

Ok… I had the Standby setting set to Never. Changing it to 30s the port change works fine.

Thanks Adias for your additional information. Now the auto-sensing only happens when the device is in the standby mode. I'll raise this issue with our team and get this fixed. Thank you!