Recent content by criticowl

That makes sense... Roon really is expecting only Roon commands to control the endpoints. I've found that hitting the play/pause button on the WiiM Pros doesn't always work reliably too. Luckily, the volume control buttons do work reliably. Speaking of which... It'd be awesome if the WiiM Pro...

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/linkplay It works alright for controlling basic things like transport controls (play/stop/pause/etc) and it's what I use to trigger some sounds being played through speakers as workaround for not having a real "smart speaker" built yet. I plan to make...

Harmon, formerly Harmon Kardon is a major electronics firm that bought Roon. They are the owner of RAAT and certification for RAAT/Roon Ready devices. Only the farmer remembers the hogs while eating their bacon. I don't care if you don't value your data and privacy. Some of us prefer to have...

To confirm my point that Roon Ready certification isn't transparent and more than a checklist? Absolutely.

I got the impression the certification process was a checklist. No performance metrics were used for any test. Simply a yes/no check, but I'd love if they published exactly what ROON Ready means to help promote the product and inform customers.

Sorry, I meant Roon should tighten the certification to test for grouped devices to ensure they stay in sync within some specific time, like under 20ms (time most musicians can detect timing being off). Then WiiM would have to fix their RAAT implementation to account for their software...

I've done both... WiiM was completely unhelpful and blamed Roon. Roon said they only certify that it plays to one device and that multi-room isn't tested beyond you can group and something is played. The back and forth and lack of any ownership of the problem is what led me to finally figuring...

How would RAAT know that the processing times in the software based DSP after decoding has variable delay? To be fair to WiiM they have made a very capable Swiss Army knife device. It's able to do a lot. It just isn't purpose made hardware, so you have to tune in the delay for each unit as...

Replying to myself here... Update - I gave up on WiiM integration (and app altogether) and now just use my WiiM Pros as Roon RAAT endpoints. Got all the integration working in Home Assistant using the Roon Player integration. The several rooms are driven w WiiM Pro units connect to a ARCAM...

I've got a ARCAM AV860 and have been asking them repeatedly to do this and their response is always "no longer supported" or "we can offer a discount on a new receiver". It sucks they won't support existing customers with a software update on expensive gear that should have the ability to do...

You know they make multi-channel amps with matrix audio switching right? Why buy so many devices and struggle with software to do something that single product that is purpose made for this task could do instead? Seriously, get a matrix zone amp and three WiiM minis and be done with it...

I do both these things using Roon with Home Assistant. I use the Roon display to show the currently playing, Roon Music Player integration to control the playing, and device tracker. Every room has a small tablet with dashboard with a tab for music.

The hogs rarely complain about their free food.

Thanks for letting people know about your DNLA issues. I don't update my fw unless there is a specific thing I need in the update (security fix usually). Don't fix what ain't broke is my philosophy for firmware.

Oh, I also should add that I have all my audio devices on their own VLAN, with broadcast traffic selectively forwarded to devices on the office and home networks. This allows me to control Roon and the WiiM devices with my PCs and mobile devices without compromising the security of the network...