So, I am trying to set up a new zone for Roon on a Windows laptop. I downloaded and installed Roon on it, seems fine. I downloaded Roon Bridge, installed it. I did see my laptop somewhere in settings, but of course, I can’t get back to it now. Roon Bridge setup says to go to Settings - Audio - and in the “Network Section”. There is no network section in the Audio tab. This is really frustrating and stuff like this happens all the time with Roon. Layers upon layers of menus make it impossible to find what you need. My left arm for a search function.
Sorry, but this was supposed to be a work around for the failure of getting my Squeezebox Touch to function as a zone, and this too is a huge fail.
It’s connected, I think. But how do I set up my audio? The laptop functions as a remote, but the audio plays only through the one zone I had set up before. No audio from the laptop, it doesn’t show up as a zone.
On your Roon server, go into Roon - Audio and you should be able to find the laptop with the attached DAC. Of course, the laptop and DAC must be turned on with the laptop connected to your network by ethernet or WIFI.
Make sure you are still using your Roon server and haven’t switched to your laptop server. When you install Roon on a laptop, it will install Roon server and Roon GUI. In your case, you’re just trying to use the laptop as an endpoint.
So, I was hoping to use the soundcard inside the laptop, no external DAC. Is that not possible? Is that why I don’t see the laptop under the audio tab?
Thanks, but the laptop does not appear in the audio tab or when I long click the zone icon at the foot of the Roon screen. I can open roon, and control my original zone with this laptop. If I play music, it is played through the original zone only, no choice to play it on the laptop.
Please uninstall Roon Bridge - it’s not needed if you have installed Roon for Windows on your laptop and may in fact be interfering with Roon’s discovery of audio devices.
In addition, please check that you have a Firewall exception for roonappliance.exe
I see Roon.exe and Roonbridgehelper.exe are allowed through firewall. No roonappliance.exe is on the list of apps. Also, Roon Bridge will not uninstall, says “Please quit all instances of Roon Bridge before continuing.”. Task manager does not show Roon Bridge running.
Well, if you don’t have a Roon Server running elsewhere, then it must be running on your laptop, and was installed as part of the Roon for Windows installation package. And in that case, you need to add roonappliance.exe as a Firewall exception in addition to raatserver.exe.
Look in C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\RoonServer\Application for the roonappliance.exe file.
