"To cast, give Chrome access in system settings." -- which system settings?

I tried everything written on this page but nothing worked. I am an engineer and had worked on casting in the past. So I thought of trying to start the casting and discovery protocol manually using terminal for the first time and see post that other applications start picking it up or not. And it worked!!!

1. Open Terminal on your mac
2. Install socat on terminal

brew install socat

3. Start a listener

socat UDP4-RECVFROM:6789,ip-add-membership=228.5.6.7:0.0.0.0,fork -

4. Open another terminal, press cmd + n

5. Broadcast message.

echo "Hello world" | socat - UDP4-DATAGRAM:228.5.6.7:6789

You would have received a Hello world message in the first terminal window. And that's it.

Go to chrome or youtube now and try casting.

After a recent update to Sequoia 15.2 my chrome cast would no longer work. This fix worked, previously posted below.

In order to enable casting I have granted Google Chrome two permissions in system settings:

In Privacy and Security:

• Local Network
• Screen & System Audio recording

I have tried this, and it doesn't work. Not sure why.

You should ok at modern browsers build in off Crome! I went the third party browser called Brave! It has never let me down!

Thanks, Cccolas. I tried that without success. What I don't understand is that both my M1 MacBook Pro and M1 iMac have the same settings. Cast works in the former but not the latter.

Hi, I share your frustration. The strange thing I'm getting now is that it is inconsistent! One day it works, the next day not. Presently it's working.

download Google Canary and use that. Casting works 👍

Try it in an incognito tab. Worked for me only when using an incognito tab.

Sorry, double post.

This seemed to work for me. Thanks.

I’d suggest downloading Brave browser as it’s the same as Chrome and even better. So much easier than going through all these hoops.

This solution worked. Giving Chrome access to "Local Network" seems to be a new thing, on top of "Screen & System Audio recording"

This worked for me. Thanks @aprimrose1.

Would like to know the pros and cons of doing this.