Hello,
I want to listen to my music whilst I’m outside of the house, without my phone. Is that possible?
I may be wrong but is it the case that you can only access your music remotely using Roon Arc?
I’m on my laptop in my office. My home server is turned on and I can connect to it using Roon Arc on my phone.
Roon Remote doesn’t connect.
VPN might be an option.
How do you mean outside of the house?
How are you going to select music etc?
Need a bit more detail.
So I listen in the garden with Roon playing to a Sonos Roam.
@haikushane, currently Roon won’t work outside your home LAN except for using ARC on a mobile device. As @BeeKay, some users have had success by configuring a VPN to connect your Core to a Remote outside your LAN, but this is not officially supported.
Another option could be setting up a Roon Core on your work laptop and authorize/de-authorize your home Core or your work Core depending on which one you want to use at that moment. Roon allows more than one Core to be created, but only one can be active with a single Roon license. In this approach, you will need to have a separate copy of your music library, and each Core will not be synchronized unless the music libraries are identfical and you backup the active Core and restore it on the other Core each time you re-activate it.
By outside my house, I mean outside of the network. I was hoping to use something like Arc, but on my laptop. Using a VPN has been suggested but that sounds fairly ridiculous.
Between this issue and not being able to play music at all from my Core locally, Roon may not be the software I want to use.
My use case is:
I’ll look for another service.
Thanks, everyone. You’ve all been very generous with your time.
I use a second Roon core on my laptop when I travel. Simply authorize the laptop and unauthorize your at home Roon core. If you have local files you want to play, you need a copy of them on your laptop or a USB drive to plug into the laptop. You don’t need a second Roon license to do this, but Roon ARC will stop working when you unauthorize your at home Roon core.
You might look at Ampache or Airsonic-Advanced. You’ll need some technical handyness for those.
At that point, I’m not sure why I wouldn’t just use iTunes if I have all the music locally anyway.
By all means, if that’s what you like. But, you asked how to remotely listen to Roon on a laptop. You didn’t ask about iTunes.
You can also use Roon ARC on a tablet if you don’t want to use your phone.
Have a look at subsonic
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
PlexAmp also works, though you’ll have to set up some RPi based endpoints with PlexAmp headless on them, which is relatively fresh, though I’ve heard ok things. All depends on how much you value discovery, content, and signal path control. If in your use case you’re not that excited about any of those 3 features, PlexAmp can be a very solid option - and it has a web player.
Plex/Plexamp will let you do this. No need to take a big library with you. Easy to set up.
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