How to make an Arcam rPlay work with Roon?

[hallo_leo]

I have an Arcam rPlay network streamer (product page link) which feeds into my living room HiFi sound system. With its own (iOS) app “DTS Play-Fi” the streamer works and can play perfectly from Qobuz.

Now I would like to make the rPlay work with Roon. The streamer is approx. 7 years old but claims to be able to receive music from sources via AirPlay, so it should be possible to connect it to Roon.

However when I try to add the rPlay as a Audio destination to Roon via Settings → Audio I cannot make it work: The rPlay (I called it “rPlay-Tuby”) sometimes appears in the Audio panel as available, but when I try to enable it the streamer might show up for a little while as enabled, but never play Roon music - and after a few minutes it will just disappear from the Audio panel in Roon.

Also when i use my iPad to connect to the streamer via Airplay (tapping “rPlay-Tuby” in the iOS Airplay list, I always get an connection error:

Although the connection does work with Arcam’s own DTS Play-Fi app as we can see from the About screen in the Play-Fi app:

Is there a way to connect the rPlay to Roon which works? Does anybody have experience with this?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Sound like you might be running into a current issue that is unrelated to the Arcam as such:

Audio devices disappear on Roon Server and then re-appear [Roon Investigating]

Hello Everyone, We know this issue has been disruptive, and we want to thank you all for your patience while we’ve been investigating and working on it. Our team has made progress in narrowing down the possible causes, but we’re not quite at the finish line yet. This one has been particularly tricky, since, despite numerous attempts, we haven’t been able to reproduce it in-house. Many of you have proposed rolling back to a previous build to resolve this issue. We’ve also considered that, but u…

[hallo_leo]

Thanks @Suedkiez.

I personally doubt this is the issue, but it is certainly possible. So let’s wait until Roon Labs fix the issue with an update.

Would be great if that solves it!

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

I don’t think so. There was a workaround if your RoonServer was hosted on a MAC or PC; but not if your using RoonServer on a Linux box.

See this thread

Play-Fi and Roon [not on roadmap]

I owned Play-Fi speakers before I started using Roon and needed to make them work together in order to really justify the cost of building a Roon core system. I now use Roon to send the output to the Play-Fi device and it does a good job as a whole house system. While, I have had good luck making the two inter-operate, it is not always reliable or simple as I would like it to be. I think better integration would be good for both Roon and Play-Fi users as it gives us the freedom to send what w…