Chromecast: How to clear receiver cache

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amit picture amit · Sep 26, 2013 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

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.

Answer

jlmcdonald picture jlmcdonald · Sep 26, 2013

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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