Spectrum conked out for a few hours this afternoon, so I sat down with a book and went to turn on Roon, to access all my local music files - but nope! It might have to do with the idiosyncrasies of my own network, but - do the Roon designers expect it to work in an environment without Internet acce…

With the Roon Core on version 2.0, the grace period is not 30 days anymore. You must have internet access to run the Roon Core 2.0. If you require offline access for any substantial period of time, you must stay on 1.8 Legacy.

Yes I use googles dns settings.

[image] 7StringJazz: though the 4th is not a global holiday. Your point? Roon is a US based company so they follow US Holidays.

Disconnect from your internet and see what happens. That is the answer.

[image] 7StringJazz: Given the maddening amount of time the remote spends spinning waiting for a response, Sounds like you have an underlying problem that needs sorting. Remotes shouldn’t do that. Raise a support thread.

Thanks for your help. There exist a thread here started from last year asking this question. All I see is anecdotal experiences. I’m asking for a Roonlabs response, like others have asked before me. This info should be in the FAQ and the marketing copy.

Not sure what you mean ‘underlying issues.’ I agree it should just work.

It doesn’t sound like it is, so get support to look at your system.

There was a definitive answer age back from @danny , I can’t just find it (I’ll look some more) but the essence was that Roon periodically checks back to base for a valid license but otherwise all metadata etc is copied to your local library and should not require an active internet connection. Obv…

[image] Roon functionality offline, with no internet [not on roadmap] Feature Suggestions The number is 30 days. Roon software requires an internet connection, but supports going offline for up to 30 days. This is a core part of our license checking system. You may not be …

That’s from roons point of view. However, if for example your router won’t serve DHCP once it’s offline then some of your clients may fail immediately or at end of lease. Over the years as people have responded to actual offline incidents it’s pretty much pot luck if it will work or not. In one of…

Does Roon work without internet? [answered: no]

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