Running Roon Server on a headless Mac Mini pointing to a Synology NAS where my music files reside. My NAS server automatically shuts down (all the way down) every night and wakes up (read boots up) in the afternoon.
Roon Server can’t find the directories after the NAS shuts down. I believe it isn’t a case of can’t finding it, but that it isn’t looking for it. If I Quit the Roon Server and immediately restart it quickly finds the music files and all end points are immediately refreshed.
It does this 100% of the time. I’m running Roon Server 1.1 Build 99.
Hey @rayski – we’re working on some changes for our upcoming 1.2 release that should make real-time folder watching on NAS drives like Synology a lot more robust and dependable, and I think the changes should help in your situation as well.
I don’t have a firm time frame quite yet for the release, but the work is happening now, so stand by and thanks in advance for your patience!
Can you elaborate on the improvements to real-time folder-watching? I have a mac mini pointing to a Synology NAS as well. Build 99 seems to drop the connection to it even when it doesn’t shut down. I haven’t had the chance to troubleshoot it, life is just too busy.
Mike can you elaborate on the root cause to the issue? Is it along the lines of the NAS being offline for a prolonged time and ROON stops checking (mine if offline 12 hrs on week days); or is it some system event Roon is listening on that it isn’t seeing when the NAS comes back online? If the latter maybe there is something I can do either on the NAS or the Mini to help alleviate the problem somewhat if I knew what that event is.
Reading your description of the issue, it actually seems like this could be unrelated to the real-time watching issues we’re aware of, which are caused by how most NAS manufacturers appear to implement filesystem notifications.
Can you let me know a little bit more about how your NAS is set up in Roon? What’s the path you’re using to mount it? Are you using SMB3?
Hey @rayski – we’ve opened up a work item here to try and improve this behavior for our next release.
There’s some more testing to do but we’re hoping we can do better here, as it looks like the current implementation is timing out when we haven’t seen the NAS in a while. We’ll let you know how it’s going ahead of our 1.2 release.
Since I’ve upgraded to the 1.2 release I am no longer seeing this problem. My NAS automatically shuts down during the day when I’m not home and wakes when I’m home. My Roon Server is now finding the NAS once it wakes again. Plus one for Roon 1.2.