HomePod mini and HomePod now showing proper icons and labelling! Are they now Roon Tested?

[Guy_Brown]

I noticed this morning that we now have icons and proper labelling for the HomePod mini and HomePod.

Did this just silently happen? Are they now Roon Tested? What did I miss?

Also, it appears to be sending HD audio without first converting it?

[Guy_Brown]

Still no native HomePod Stereo support, though…

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Guy_Brown

What did I miss?

Are you using Roon‘s Early Access version? AirPlay 2 support was added there for testing.

EarlyAccess: Roon 2.0 Build 1410 and ARC Build 270 is Live!

Hello Everyone, For the first time, today’s release includes support for steaming over Airplay 2. This brings first-class Airplay support to Roon, including Apple products like HomePods and AppleTV, as well as many popular Airplay devices from a wide range of partners. Roon will now properly support stereo pairs of HomePods (addressing them as a single stereo device) and in many cases configuration tasks (such as entering passcodes) should be streamlined. We also expect full backwards compatib…

[Guy_Brown]

Possibly, although I don’t remember opting for it, where is the setting made?

Here’s the version details:

@Suedkiez

AirPlay 2 support was added there for testing.

Does that mean support for HomePod Stereo Pairs is coming?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Guy_Brown

Here’s the version details:

OK, you don’t, as the version info says „production“, not „early access“.

However, then I have no idea why the AirPlay info changed for you

@Guy_Brown

Does that mean support for HomePod Stereo Pairs is coming?

Yes, I have highlighted the part in the link I posted earlier:

@Guy_Brown

where is the setting made?

If you were to change to EA, the instructions are here:

Roon Early Access Program

However, note that currently not all is well yet, as testing feedback shows:

B1410 AirPlay 2 feedback

Just my first impressions: Playing to a Naim NDX-2 via AirPlay 2 (which the Naim supports) in one zone seemed to work flawlessly. (Though I hadn’t had the odd AirPlay issue that causes a lot of complaints in production with the NDX-2, either - I tested it prior to updating to 1410). AirPlay 2 confirmation: [image] Playing to my Apple TV individually also worked flawlessly. I enabled the Apple TV output, switched to it, it asked me for the AirPlay password that was shown on the screen, …

[Guy_Brown]

Awesome, thanks for the info