Yeah, I'd been using the Chromecast support in the earlier 3.0 betas. Seemed to be working just fine, although it wasn't getting the "friendly" name that I'd set for the device. So instead of "Living Room TV", I'd see a big hash-code.
Chromecaaast! I might ditch my HTPC currently running OpenELEC on a Acer Revo, and just waz out movies from my phone. There's always some damn problem with OpenELEC - the whole library/file management is confusing as all hell for one thing.
Do you have a source for that? I thought Google only broke the APIs when people tried to clone Cchromecast functionality in another device form factor, or create an emulator for a Chromecast, not just implementing the normal "Cast to" functionality.
It can also play audio over Google Home speakers.