Headless Roon server/core installations

[Geoff_Coupe]

I don’t know what you’ve been doing for years, but it probably wasn’t a method supported by Roon Labs.

Roon has never run as a service on Windows or MacOS. Danny stated this back in 2015, and nothing has changed since then.

Windows service

Auto-starting on login will be a standard feature of RoonServer (the “headless” Roon Core). However, we won;t run as a Windows service. That usually has annoyances related to SMB access, so you will need to setup your Mac/Windows machine to auto-login as a user. That said, the RoonServer runs in the OS X menubar or the Windows System tray (that thing in the lower right), and from there you can quit or set the “Launch on Startup” option.