How do I get Roon to work with Dragonfly (dac) on my iphone?

dancremeans · October 22, 2016, 7:59pm

It doesn’t seem to “see” the Dragonfly DAC on the iPhone. It does find Roon I have running on a computer in the other room, it just doesn’t see the Dragonfly hooked into my iphone, thus it plays music the the HDMI port in the other room. Confused.

dancremeans · October 22, 2016, 8:01pm

I’m seeing that it can’t be done. Apparently it’s only a “remote control.” Ugh. Why? When?

David_Rocheleau_Houl · October 22, 2016, 8:04pm

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-1-2-can-ipad-now-stream-music-or-not/9553

It is for iPad, but I think the same is true for iPhone.

RBM · October 22, 2016, 8:05pm

As to why, you may want to read @brian’s explanation [here] (https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-1-2-can-ipad-now-stream-music-or-not/9553/4):

If we turned on playback on iOS right now, there would be clicks and pops and dropouts and sound quality issues.

We have a solution to this problem, and we use that solution on the other four platforms, but Apple won’t let us release it because of App store rules.

The root cause is an interaction between audio playback and the technology that allows us to deploy Roon across five platforms without doing five times as much work. This is a technology that we depend on for strategic reasons, not something we can migrate away from.

The people who make that technology are working on the problem. Once their fix is available, we can incorporate their latest code and see if it fixes Roon. It’s a complicated change for them, and they are an established team with lots of customers that depend on them to build stable infrastructure, so their pace is not super fast, but they are working on it.

dancremeans · October 22, 2016, 8:38pm

Thanks for an explanation, being out here in la, la, land with no info whatsoever, just knowing something you’d like to work does’t work. Obviously it’s a little more complex than it seems.