Roon Extension Manager for Windows [Deprecated]

Tinkering Roon API
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Edit: I made a PDF guide:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rPdoc2LAvgsF7cCq_3buUWvKORVbEw-o/view?usp=sharing

Ok I figured it out. IMHO, using a DietPi-via-VirtualBox-VM should be the preferred way to install on Windows, as it doesn’t require junking up your Windows System with anything and theoretically won’t break with any future Windows Updates.

  1. Follow this: https://github.com/TheAppgineer/roon-extension-manager/wiki/VM-Setup-Instructions

  2. Then this: https://github.com/TheAppgineer/roon-extension-manager/wiki/Installation#dietpi--v610

  3. Then on the DietPi VM command line enter: dietpi-software install 86 162 to add Docker which is required for many extensions to function.

Aside from waiting for the downloads to finish, the actual install took like 3 clicks and less than 5 minutes. Showed up in Roon immediately. Didn’t need to reboot or restart anything.

Got the “Web Controller” extension working beautifully.

For better integration, on iOS when you load it in Safari, click on the Share icon and select “Add to Home Screen”. This gives you an icon to click to directly launch it, and it shows up as a separate process in the app switcher (instead of a tab in Safari).

On your desktop OS, start Google Chrome like this and it’ll put the web controller in its own window with no tabs or title bar:

start "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app="http://192.168.1.102:8080/"

(just edit the location of Chrome on your hard disk and the IP address of DietPi as appropriate)

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