Hardware End Points Supported by Roon

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Will Roon run as an end point on my Android based Amazon TV with HDMI out. I can see how I could use the Amazon TV as a remote for my Sooloos end point which could be quite cool!

If only the speech recognition worked on non ATV apps too. I guess it would eventually get old but “ladies and gentleman please welcome insert band of choice whilst holding down the remote” and then the music starts!

What is that Amazon TV box? The Fire TV? Is it Android? Can you install Android apps on it?

Hi @danny

Yes it is the Amazon Fire TV. Android apps can be side loaded, but there is a way of getting it into the official amazon store.

Some Amazon Fire TV Apps

Developing Apps for Amazon Fire TV

Installing Android Apps on Amazon Fire TV

Cheers

We really want to release RoonSpeakers app for Android. Old phones, your Amazon device, etc… all could be good streaming devices.

Look for it sometime this year.

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@danny Would RoonSpeakers be a great way to use my iPhone 3GS and i80 dock to get Roon into my F80?

I am not super familiar with the i80, but I’m guessing it sounds better than the headphone jack. A software iOS RoonSpeakers app could pull that off – but no volume control on the F80 :frowning:

Meridian never did good volume controls for it. I loved that product, but lack of control made it a weirdo transient device for me.

Yeah, possibly clutching at straws here…

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Astell & Kern makes portable devices, but they also have a streaming mode. Very useful: I have loaded my favorite music on the AK240 (384 GB of storage) for mobile use, but when I’m at home I can access the entire library over wifi. But it has a conventional artist/album/track user interface. Would benefit from Roon. A&K has a PC-based streamer, the protocol may be usable for Roon. It operates in a pull model, with the UX on the device, but protocols are protocols…

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Hello great piece of software…is the aurilac Aries on the end point list?
I am using this to stream to new Devialet Phantoms, also it would be great if room was integrated into devialets system.
Thx

@davidad - I am not with Roon but am an Aries owner and yes it is!

Aries & Roon

“I’ve had 2 by MS200 feeding into 2 off my Sonos players”

Can you elaborate a bit on this? Are you taking the mini-jack out of a MS200 (analog, I presume) & just plugging it into any Sonos ZP in your system?

Why the need for the 2nd MS200?

OH I wish! I was as their office 2 months ago in Paris, talking about integrating with their Expert line by supporting AIR natively. They were open to that, but we’ve both been very busy and it hasn’t gone anywhere yet.

When I brought up the Phantom, they flat out refused, as they want users to use their Spark app.

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Direct communication with Devialets expert line would make a dream come true… Both sides could gain some happy customers, that’s for sure.

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Back to other hardware endpoints- I use Synology NAS to CH Precision C1 DAC thru its ethernet streaming renderer. How likely do you think it is that Roon would ever pick up/ see this hardware?

BTW- FANTASTIC interface. Just amazing. Obviously would love to use in place of the Synology Audio Station in their DSM as controller.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Synology supports some USB DAC’s, not sure if that helps your situation or if you’ve already tried that.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/faq/392

Anyone happened to know whether Boelit 12 will work as an Airplay device? From googling I haven’t been able to work out what Airplay version it is and whether it’s new enough (early 2012).

Flaky machine, or was in Spring 2012 when I set it up for my friend.

Shame. At the time of writing Spark is still very buggy, Roon+Phantom would be a match made in heaven! Hopefully some lobbying from customers will help Devialet see sense and they’ll do the right thing… :pray:

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