INSTRUCTIONS: “1. Simply open up the ASUSTOR adminstration web interface and launch the App Central. In the “Beta Apps” section, you’ll find Roon Server and can install it with just one click.”
Yeas, but HOW? I control my Synology on a web browser running on Mac OS. I have downloaded the files on the NAS. And then what should I do? I doubleclick in Finder, I did the same in Synology. I copied them to the NAS first. I also tried in Windows. The “simple” installation appears impossible: the *.SPK extention is not recognized.
Has someone a better experience? I have a QNAP also and this one came with a RoonServer app. But not for the Synology.
Help will be great!
Philip
How to install Roonserver on a synology DS414 NAS?
Hello and thank you for your message, Nuwrity. Sure, I can download the file. I can now try to run it in Windows or iOS, but the *.spk extention is not recognized. I have changed the Trust Level to “Any Publisher”. I then go to Package Center in the Synology screen, and choose for “Manual Installation” and try to run the installation but also here the file format is unknown…
Here is a screenshot which says “Fileformat unclear”. No need to share this because I think I was allready clear, but any how it has a file format that cannot be recognized.
Don’t do this. I tried to run roon server on an apparently eminently capable NAS (one more powerful than yours) and while it worked at times, it failed so often and in so many different ways that I gave up and used an Intel NUC (exactly) as described on the roon website. My system now works flawlessly.
Thank you Wilfred, You might be probably right. I have a QNAP also an on that one it works quite okay. May be not an ideal situation and if one does not do many things simultaneously it works on the QNAP253B. I wish to try it on the Synology also. Things I can not stand is instructions that are faulty…! The *.SPK is probably a compressed file, one that no one ever heard of…
Bad documentation annoys me too, one just has to figure out how to read between the lines.
I’ve had both a Synology and a QNAP NAS, I got roon working on a high spec QNAP and, like you, assumed that roon failures might be due to NAS loads (CPU, network, disk I/O). Well, after some detailed experimentation I found zero correlation between QNAP loads and roon failures. I concluded that it was some weird mystery that I had no time for and followed the excellent roon NUC documentation to get a working system. That documentation mentions that future upgrades might break any roon server setup not identical to what they recommend - so you might get a NAS to work today and find it fails after a future upgrade.
Hi @Philip_Feenstra,
The installation for Roon Server on Synology depends the the linux version of Roon Server. On linux Roon Server is only available for x86-64 cpu architecture (=64bit Intel compatible). According to the specification of the the DS414, it has a ARM architecture and therefore won’t install Roon Server.
Thank you Christopher, for your input here also. My experience with Roon on the QNAP253B was not that good either. Searching and scanning directories simultaneously was some bit too much for the NAS. I have a Mac mini Core i7 2GB with SSD and 8GB memory attached running the Roon core also. So I could switch between both. Mac mini is doing these tasks much smoother. My Devialets Expert Pro 1000 CI is translating the DSD so not much prosessor activity is asked from the Mac mini and the fan speed off.
