Airplay 2 Support for Apple Airport Express breaks Roon

I lost connectivity 3 months ago to my airport express’.

I’ve tried everything. It is ROON!. I can get all my other devices to play. Roon ‘acts’ like its playing, but no fiber’s’ light or sound from any of them.

Ver 78000.12 is on my 2nd gen apples. Running latest OSX and alll updates.

Xpress says connected to correct IP on Xpress, but when i hit the stream quality it says "airport10,115…when the address is 192.168.1.177

Is this meaningful?

And it does not allow a change in versions like shown in “downgrading software version in apple.”

I will have to get rid of roon if this is not resolved as the ‘remote feature’ is the reason i own it. ROON needs to own this upgrade issue and resolve. I’ve spent over 3 hours on this. Thx,