There are two topics to consider in your question:
First, will the Roon IOS client be able to support audio playback? This has been addressed by the folks at Roon - unfortunately the cross platform development tool used has an issue with this capability on IOS (Xamarin, now owned by Microsoft). When and if Xamarin fixes this, Roon should work as it does on Android. There are a few threads on this if you want more info.
Second, can iPeng stand in until Roon supports IOS? iPeng is a wonderful app used in the Squeezebox/Logitech Media Server environment. If @Joerg_Schwieder is able to work his magic, it is very possible that you will be able to “Enable Squeezebox support” on the Roon server, purchase iPeng in the app store, and be happy
iPeng 9.3 with the Roon playback support is now rolling out on the App Store.
I’ll write a bit of a bigger announcement in the coming days but just wanted to let you know here since this has been going on for quite a while.
Please let me know how it works for you.
Just to be clear in case you don’t have iPeng, yet: you’d need both the App (iPeng 9) and the “Playback” In-App-Purchase since iPeng is essentially not a player app but a Squeezebox remote control app.
I’ve been an iPeng user for a long time and it’s the app that made LMS work so well for me over the year. When I bought my Roon subscription I really missed the iPad playback that iPeng provided. I am so happy that it works so well now. I can now listen to music throughout my farm.
Wow! This is terrific. Now I can play selections from my Roon library to the waterproof Bluetooth speaker that lives in my shower. Really one of those moments where technology is (to me) indistinguishable from magic. Well done and many thanks, @Joerg_Schwieder.
Could someone lay out the steps that you need to take to get this to work?
If one has never had anything to do with Squeezebox, is there something one needs to do, in order to get this to work? (Other than turn on the support in Roon?)
Got it working now. Seems I just had to turn everything on and off a few times before iPeng was being picked up as a new device in Roon’s Audio setup. So, this is terrific!
Works. Had to turn off and on a few times too, not just initially but after I had put the iPad to sleep for a few minutes.
It is particularly great because I have the Audeze EL-8 headphones, with the Audeze Lightning cable that contains a DAC and amp, powered by the iPad. Like it better than the iPad’s built-in DAC and amp. I have used the EL-8s plugged into a SonicOrbiter SE plus a LHLabs Geek Out on my bedside table, works fine but it is stuck in place, now I am mobile! Well, mobile within my wifi range, but still. Lovely!
(With this setup, hardware volume control is in the Audeze DAC/amp/cable, but it all works, I can adjust volume with buttons on the cable, with the iPad’s hardware buttons, with the Roon app, or with iPeng, and wherever I adjust it, it is reflected accurately in all the places. And the cable has a mute button, and it pauses Roon! Isn’t it lovely when things work like they should?)
Also worked on my iPhone 6, but volume was low, and the system didn’t recover well when my cooking timer went off, had to go here and there to hit play and volume was set to zero. This was a more difficult test.