How am I connected to my home core from my hotel room?

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Hi
This is probably an idiotic question, but I’d genuinely appreciate any explanation anyone can offer.

I’m currently in a hotel at Stansted Airport (UK), waiting on the results of a Covid-19 test before (hopefully!) flying out to join a vessel on Saturday. My Macbook is connected to the hotel’s wi-fi and “What’s My IP” reports my IP address as: 195.89.xx.xx. I opened Roon a couple of days ago expecting to have to change the core to the local machine, as I’ve had to do many times on my travels in the past. However, I didn’t have to and when I go to Roon - Preferences, it says that I’m connected to my home core (xxx-imac-4) with the IP address 172.25.xx.xxx. Both machines are on 1.7 (555).

I can browse my full library (on a Synology NAS at home) and I can play music from that library that I 100% know I don’t have on my Macbook (it’s not coming from Tidal or Qobuz either). In short, I seem to have full functionality as if I was sitting in my lounge at home and connected to my home network?

Did I completely miss a significant update announcement or something? I’m sure there’s a simple explanation that will crush my current joy!

Thanks in advance
Fraser

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Your hotel WiFi bill might curtail your joy… :wink:

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Free access…hallelujah!

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Yay! Maybe VPN?

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Thanks Andy – it appears so. I messed about with Zerotier One months ago and pretty much gave up on it. Actually deleted it, so it’s not showing in Launchpad, Applications folder or my taskbar, but when I go into Little Snitch Network Monitor there it is, showing a steady green download! I see it’s still in my Trash, but I’m going to leave everything as is and just enjoy seamless remote Roon experience while it lasts. :grinning:

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ZeroTier is the best solution I have found thus far but only good for a core running on Windows or Mac or nas/Linux but not for rock or nucleus users sadly

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Certainly seems to be working for me, Wizard – even though I didn’t think I had it anymore! Rock solid connection.

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I just tried as I always VPN to the network where my ROON lives whenever I am outside of my house. That said, the results were not in my favor as that of yours.

I hope ROON is rolling this out to certain regions as an upgrade? Not sure, but if so, I’ll be super thrilled.

Good luck and cheers,
– Vick

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For ZeroTier the core must run on a ZeroTier connection and the remote must be pc/Mac/Linux based…I don’t think any iOS and perhaps android remotes will work