Ferrum Wandla Update: Roon Integration One Day?

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I saw this update the other day: https://ferrum.audio/introducing-ferrum-streaming-control-technology-in-wandla-2-0-0-firmware-update/

It made me wonder about what this new control tech could mean for interfacing with the Roon endpoints, in my case Roon Bridge on RPi4. I don’t expect much, like actually control, but you never know (display tracks?) until you try it, which I will after release.

There is a Ferrum streamer in the works, which this may be related to; this also suggests more possibilities for Roon integrations.

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Being a fellow WANDLA owner, I’m looking forward to this as well!

There is a video link in the press release on the ferry website which demonstrates the functionality using roon on a laptop. The link doesn’t seem to work anymore, but I could watch it the day the announcement was released.

Demonstrated functions in the video were (IIRC):

  • Artist/title information on the WANDLA display
  • track time information (progress bar) on the WANDLA display
  • track skipping forwards/backwards in the queue by swiping on the WANDLA display
  • play/pause and track skipping using the WANDLA remote

From what I have seen and read I assume the FSCT doesn’t directly integrate into roon itself but interfaces with the playback control functions of the operating system which is interfacing with the roon remote app on the PC/Mac connected to WANDLA.

While this two step approach seems complicated in the first place, I think it’s a pretty smart approach because it makes FSCT independent from a specific playback software. Consequentially every playback software which is controllable through the operating systems playback control features should work with FSCT.

So let’s wait for Munich High End and the release of Firmware 2.0.0 afterwards.

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I appreciate you writing much more about this than my quick fire message.

I am very interested in this and share your views.

Let see what happens this weekend or after Munich and what is announced. I’ve many threads of speculation, but they are probably nonsense.

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I saw a post from Golden Sound saying this would work with Roon. Not sure how, but I will try it as soon as it’s released.

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There’s a new announcement on the ferry.audio website according to which FSCT will be available from June 17th.

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