Chromecast: How to clear receiver cache

google-cast

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There are two things you can do that should prevent it from caching:

1) With the receiver running in debug mode, visit your.chromecast.ip.address:9222 and load the developer tools. Click the 'settings' button (the gear) in the bottom-right of the dev tools window. In the settings pane, make sure the 'disable cache' box is checked.

2) In your receiver app, add a reference to a cache manifest:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html manifest="cache.manifest">
<head>
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/cast/js/receiver/1.0/cast_receiver.js">
</script>
.....

And a cache.manifest file that tells the chromecast's browser not to cache anything:

CACHE MANIFEST

# Cache manifest version 1.0

CACHE

#no cache

NETWORK
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amit

Updated on July 25, 2022

Comments

amit almost 2 years

How do you ensure that the receiver is using the latest code deployed to the whitelisted url? Sometimes it appears to be using cached code.
Alex Gilleran over 10 years

Both of these make sense but I find that neither of them actually work 100% of the time... even physically unplugging the device sometimes fails to clear the browser cache.