I have two main Roon zones - one high end stereo USB DAC, connected to RoPieee USB plus multi channel over hdmi. It would be really neat if RoPieee could monitor two zones for activity. Main one would have priority if primary zone was playing and secondary would be used if primary zone was idle but secondary zone was playing. That way one RoPieee could be used to display what’s playing on either of the two zones.
Does that sound interesting? Reasonable amount of work for what can be gained?
I think that there’d be quite a few others who would also have use for it.
That’s not what I had in mind. Sure, you can reconfigure which zone to display, but it seems to me that it could happen automatically if RoPieee was aware of one primary and one secondary zone and selected which one to display based on whichever zone was playing. No manual intervention needed.
It’s more straightforward than that. I agree it still needs intervention and is not quite what you proposed, but it’s “instant click" as opposed to a reconfigure.
So Daniel, you don’t have to reconfigure it in the GUI by browsing to the IP-address of the display.
Simply push on the name of the present zone on your screen, and select the zone you wish to display. It is as easy as that. No reconfiguration, just a selection on the actual screen.
Try it out. It is very handy.
Kind regards, Frank.
My display is over by the speakers and not by my chair, so it would mean walking over to the display each time I switch between stereo and multi channel music. (It would also mean buying a new display that has working touch input, but that’s doable if I believed in the method.)
So without my suggested feature, I will fallback to listening to only using my consumer grade multi-channel even for stereo music, which would be a waste of my reference quality DAC staying mostly silent. @spockfish , I made the mistake of not tagging you in my first post, so maybe you haven’t seen it. Is this something that seems feasible to add without too big effort relative to what it would bring?
I’m not sure. I understand it from a functional perspective, but I did not had the time (yet) to investigate what this means from an effort perspective. I’ll add it to the list.