# Casting failure

**URL:** <http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** handled\
**Created:** [October 15, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357 "2026-10-15T13:59:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![johnvella.tx](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@johnvella.tx](http://support.symfonium.app/u/johnvella.tx)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357/1 "2026-10-15T13:59:45Z")

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### App version

Production

### Issue description

Casting over Google home fails. The speaker acknowledges the connection, but then the app’s play button animation just spins and spins with no sound coming out of the speaker. Eventually, the error message “too many errors” pops up. The app won’t play music again until the cast source is switched back to “this device.”

Log was uploaded as johnvella

### Device type

Phone

### Media provider

Subsonic (Open)

### Steps to reproduce

1. Play song
2. Click cast icon on now playing screen
3. Choose speaker
4. Speaker alerts successful connection
5. Wait, no sound, play button has circle animation on it
6. “Too many errors” message

### I searched existing issues first

on

### I understand that logs are mandatory

on

### Log upload name / description

johnvella

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357/2 "2026-10-15T14:17:40Z")

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Thanks, I found your logs. The speaker connects successfully, then fails while loading the music directly from your server. The server address looks like a VPN address, so I suspect the speaker cannot reach it. A speaker does not automatically share your phone’s VPN access.

Please enable **Proxy via Symfonium** in the settings for that cast target, then reconnect and try again with your phone and speaker on the same Wi-Fi. This lets the phone fetch the music and relay it to the speaker, at the cost of more battery use. Alternatively, use a server address the speaker can reach directly.

If it still fails with proxying enabled, please send me [debug logs](https://docs.symfonium.app/faq/how-to-gather-logs-and-open-an-issue/) covering that complete attempt, along with the upload description and the time you reproduced it.

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**Author:** ![johnvella.tx](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@johnvella.tx](http://support.symfonium.app/u/johnvella.tx)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357/3 "2026-10-15T14:53:41Z")

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My ecosystem is

PC: Navidrome → Tailscale

Phone: Tailscale → Symfonium

I’m casting to speakers that are part of my Google Home set up. I couldn’t find anywhere in the Home settings to enable “proxy via symfonium” neither in the Home app itself nor the individual speakers.

In the settings for Tailscale, I can grant access to it for specific apps. In that list, I have Symfonium allowed, but Home is greyed out.

Am I just out of luck here for casting to Google Home since it can’t be granted access to Tailscale?

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357/4 "2026-10-15T14:55:01Z")

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> **[Casting issues with Chromecast or UPnP](https://docs.symfonium.app/faq/casting-issues-with-chromecast/)**
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> Fix Chromecast and UPnP casting issues caused by renderer DNS, VPN access, or proxy playback requirements.

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**Author:** ![johnvella.tx](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@johnvella.tx](http://support.symfonium.app/u/johnvella.tx)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357/5 "2026-10-15T15:14:47Z")

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THANK YOU!!! This fixed it.

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**Author:** ![system](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/system/32/726_2.png) [@system](http://support.symfonium.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/casting-failure/15357/6 "2026-10-17T15:15:26Z")

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