FYI: RoonOS 253 earlyaccess will move to 254 production automatically

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

Yep, again presented without comment as pure factual fodder:

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Same here also

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

I don’t want to be a drag, but my Rock is still on 253 earlyaccess and not updating to 254 production as the OP wrote. I am happy to switch manually, but I held off because I wanted to retain a test case for @AMP, because the observed behavior is not the same as the expected one.

Would be nice if you could let me (and others above) know if you abandoned this and we should update manually

[Geoff_Coupe]

You’re not alone - mine is still on 253 as well…

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

Wierd. FWIW, my secondary ROCK is now OSv254. Not trying to flex. Can’t tell what my primary home one is right now.

[CrystalGipsy (Resisting the flow!)]

Still no sign off 254, is it actually a real thing or an urban myth.

[Jim_F]

IIRC, it showed up on my Nucleus a week or two ago.

RoonOS (Nucleus / ROCK) build 254 production is live!

Hi Everyone, It’s been a while since we’ve issued an update for RoonOS and we have a major change along with some minor fixes which do need to be released. The largest change in this build is support for booting via UEFI which is especially important as Intel phases out NUCs with legacy boot options. Taking this release as an update will not change your device to UEFI boot or require any other intervention. This change will only apply to new installations. There is no practical (or audible) r…

[CrystalGipsy (Resisting the flow!)]

Did you have early access version before?

[Jim_F]

I had early access in September, but went back to production in October.

[CrystalGipsy (Resisting the flow!)]

I mean RoonOS not Roon. We all tried early access RoonOS which was 253 and where promised it would upgrade to the release vsn, thats not happend.

[Jim_F]

I don’t think so, but not certain. So many things have been updated recently, it’s hard to know.

[John_V]

Reinstalled, but still on 253 ea.

[CrystalGipsy (Resisting the flow!)]

You had to manally install it, so if you didnt do that you have just recieved the released update from previous release Roon OS. Everyone who tried out the earlyaccess is stuck on it.

[Jim_F]

The best I remember, I was out of the early access program at the time and Roon OS 254 just showed up.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Yes then this was the recent production release from the old IIRC 223 and is expected:

RoonOS (Nucleus / ROCK) build 254 production is live!

Hi Everyone, It’s been a while since we’ve issued an update for RoonOS and we have a major change along with some minor fixes which do need to be released. The largest change in this build is support for booting via UEFI which is especially important as Intel phases out NUCs with legacy boot options. Taking this release as an update will not change your device to UEFI boot or require any other intervention. This change will only apply to new installations. There is no practical (or audible) r…

We are having a different problem because we were on the manually installed 253 earlyaccess that immediately preceded 254, and should have been moved automatically to 254 but weren’t

[ToneDeaf (Ozzie)]

@AMP

We don’t want to have you end up orphaned on the earlyaccess branch of RoonOS so we’re going to setup the update server to migrate ROCK and Nucleus devices which were updated with RoonOS 253 earlyaccess to 254 production. This rule isn’t in place yet, but at some point in the next day you’ll see an update notification in Roon and once complete your device will be on 254 production.

Hi @AMP, just like other posters here, I see still no sign of an update from 253 to 254. Seeing that you did not want us to ‘end up orphaned’, do you recommend us triggering the update to 254 via a Production file, or is it useful for Roon that we hang around on 253 for now? Thanks.

[Geoff_Coupe]

Hmm - I’ve just tried using the roon-production.bin file in the Reinstall directory and that hasn’t bumped me up to build 254 of Roon OS.

Now switched back to Early Access using the roon-earlyaccess.bin file, and still stuck on build 253…

Oh well, at least the Reinstall mechanism for Roon itself seems to be working.

[RBM (René)]

Hey @Geoff_Coupe –

You’ll need the roonos-production.bin file instead of roon-production.bin.

It’s available here:

Roon OS 1.0 Build 253 Observations

@mikeb Instructions for the Reinstall directory are here: https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/roonos-reinstall-directory-instructions#Using_the_Reinstall_Directory You will need to use this file: roonos-production.bin (above download link edited to be the correct one for RoonOS) Short version is: Download the file linked above to your computer Mount the Data folder from your RoonOS device on your computer and navigate to the Reinstall folder Copy the downloaded file to the Rei…

[Geoff_Coupe]

I thought as much, but couldn’t find it… Thanks.

[Geoff_Coupe]

OK - now up and running on Build 254 using Roon 2.0 Early Access…