I have a love / hate relationship with Chromecast.

When it works, it works well, and it is nice to just press a button and whatever I'd like to use is up on my TV. It does feel a little magic.

But even when you're using compatible tools / devices that should work together, sometimes they mysteriously don't, and there's absolutely no way to know what's going wrong. Approximately 25% of the time, my Chromecast device just doesn't seem to exist according to my computer. Both my computer and the device have network connectivity, but there's just no ability to cast. I'm reduced to randomly restarting things in a vain hope that things will work.