I am trying to get an RPi 3B with the latest RoPieee recognized in Roon. The Roon Core is a Mac mini on WLAN 10.0.12.55. The firewall is off. The RPi is on WLAN 10.0.12.51. I can ping it and, obviously, access its web interface. The green LED on the Pi is flashing slowly. The audio HAT is an Allo DigiOne. I unticked the USB toggle on the General page of the web UI. And I did reboot the Pi.
Does the info contained in the feedback provide any clues to what might be wrong? Grateful for any pointers.
Thank you for looking into this, I really do appreciate this. Yes, it’s the WLAN. Ethernet works. WLAN cannot be active on the Ropieee at the same time. The Highlander Pattern applies here, I reckon.
To confirm, I reversed to WLAN-only. Doesn’t work. Went back to LAN-only. It is working. Nice. Unfortunately I really need this to work on the WLAN.
Any chance a USB WiFi dongle would work better than the on-board WiFi? Can you suggest a brand/model which has a good chance of success?
The macOS firewall on the Roon Core Mac mini has been switched off since when I first installed Roon.
My router (Ubiquiti USG) has default firewall rules for LAN traffic. These cannot be edited. They are set to permissive anyway, so I doubt they are causing this. Plus, I have another Mac mini in the 10.0.12.0/24 network which is working just fine as a Roon Bridge. Ditto for a MacBook running full Roon; both via WLAN.
I am going to purchase a 3B+ (Plus) model. It’s been months since I bought the last one. Maybe it’ll work with RoPieee over WLAN, maybe not. If not, I have other applications for it, no problem. I’ll report success/failure here.
By default my router blocks multicast/broadcast traffic to WLAN devices. I added an exception to allow the Roon Core computer to send multicast/broadcast data. That was it.
Interestingly, with RoPieee on the new 3B+ the WLAN path worked even without the exception, i.e.
3B: LAN OK, WLAN fail
3B+: LAN OK, WLAN OK