I did not follow up at this time, becuase somewhat tired of the missing and partly very unclear documentation.
Now I had to do updates in Windows and question is relevant again.
I have the Roon server installed on a windows 10 mini PC. My expectation would be, there there is a web admin interface as described here …
where I configure all settings, update to new versions etc.
According an answer in …
there is no web admin interface when I install the Roon server on win10?
If yes, why this? Every software, be it a media server, router etc. has an admin interface to configure all needed parameters.
If there is no for Win10 installations, how can I configure server settings? Can I update software versions only via the mobile app?
2nd question
In the link provided above a user recommended this article
I am sorry, but for an expensive product like Roon, could there not be a more useful documentation? There is no information how to add watched folders.
3rd question
There is an explanation with a admin interface. Back to question 1 above: Where is this admin interface?
Roon has no web admin. You need the remote app to set up on either another pc, tablet or phone to do anything to do with Roon. Only Roon OS devices have a basic web interface to stop, update or restart the server. Everything else in regard to configuration is controlled by the app. The app should find your Roon server and ask you to connect to it. You login using your username and password and then configure what’s required.
The Web Administration interface is provided as an administration tool for the Roon Operating System, it is not for configuring Roon Server.
The configuration of Roon Server itself is handled by the Settings pages in the Roon user interface.
Windows has its own set of administration tools built into the Windows operating system, hence there is no need for the presence of a Web Administration interface for Windows…
If you are running Roon Server on Windows, then you can quit the application by accessing the Roon Server icon menu that will be in the background apps listed in the right hand end of the Taskbar.
If you are running your Roon Server on Roon OS, then you are using Roon Server as an appliance - if you want to stop it, just turn off your NUC. Same as your microwave, if you want to stop it completely, turn off the power.
You need third-party software to control the Roon Server process remotely. This is true for all users who run a headless server. The OS of the server machine has nothing to do with this requirement (it is a consequence of running the machine headless) – just the tool (third-party software) you need to control the server may change.
Microsoft provides an RDP client for Android for example. For Linux there are often (for server distributions, for desktop distributions not necessarily) web front-ends available to install from the distribution’s repositories so you can control the server from a web browser. I dunno what’s on offer for MacOS as I don’t use that stuff.
To some extent, it’s an overkill for Roon (NUC 13, I7 1360P, 2 SSDs) and it would be a waste of money to install Rock on it (this was my set with my previous 200usd HP). As it is close to my tv set, I use it for 4K movies as well.
