Google’s venerable 2015 Chromecast attempted to self-destruct earlier this week, upsetting an enormous quantity of people that have been nonetheless utilizing the decade-old streaming dongles. Google was seemingly caught off guard by the units glitching out all on the similar time, but it surely promised to handle the issue, and it has. Google says it has a repair able to roll out, and most affected units must be proper as rain within the coming days.

Google remains to be not confirming the reason for the Chromecast outage, but it surely was virtually actually the results of a certificates expiring after 10 years. It could appear there was nobody keeping track of the Chromecast’s ticking time bomb, which is not precisely stunning—Google has moved on from the Chromecast brand, focusing as an alternative on the extra succesful Google TV streamer. Even when Google is finished with the Chromecast, its clients aren’t.

For those who left your 2015 Chromecast or Chromecast Audio alone to await a repair, you are in good condition. The replace must be delivered mechanically to the system quickly. “We’ve began rolling out a repair for the issue with Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio units, which might be accomplished over the following few days. Customers should guarantee their system is linked to WiFi to obtain the replace,” says Google.