Howdy:
We are having troubles with provisioning Google Chromecasts on our wireless network and was wondering if anyone else has seen this.
As a quick overview, we are end to end Aruba Wireless and ClearPass. Any EAP-TLS capable device is allowed on our WPI-Wireless and eduroam networks. When connecting this way, the ClearPass Endpoint record is flagged as being EAP-TLS capable.
We also have a WPI-Open unsecure network for media devices/game consoles/etc. To be on the WPI-Open network, the device must be registered in our IPAM which then creates a ClearPass EndPoint and Guest Device. Due to the magic of Aruba ClearPass, we are not allowing EAP-TLS flagged devices on WPI-Open.
Then due to the voodoo – a much higher level of magic – of Aruba AirGroups, devices on one network can talk to the other without problem. This has been proven with an AppleTV and iPhone – so it does work.
Enter the "Google Home" app on Android devices. This app appears to communicate from the phone on WPI-Wireless to the Chromecast on WPI-Open during the provisioning process. But near the end of the provisioning process, the Google Home app attempts to move the phone from WPI-Wireless to WPI-Open. This operation is not supported in our environment so the process never completes despite the two devices seemingly being able to communicate.
I have been told that before the Google Home app – back when the app was the Chromecast app – you could provision a Chromecast and it would work flawlessly in this type of scenario.
Has anyone ever run into this problem the field? How did you solve it?
Many thanks!
--ben