I’m early in my trial of Roon. The biggest issue standing in the way right now is that the Roon app on my Kindle Fire HD8 keeps repeatedly crashing. It initially worked fine for several hours, but then crashed and would not restart. The Roon screen would come up, it would try to log into the server, and then everything would disappear and I’d be back at the main Kindle screen with all of the app icons. Rebooting the Kindle didn’t help. I finally had to delete the Roon app and reinstall. That worked for a short while and then, boom, back to the crashing noted earlier.
The Roon server (on a Linux machine with Fedora Core 31) seems to be fine. I can still run things through my Samsung S8 phone, but I am not at all fond of using such a small screen for this task. I thought I might use my wife’s iPad, but discovered it is too old a version and it won’t run the Roon app. I can’t use my laptop because it is also a Linux machine and you don’t have a control app for it. (I’m rather disappointed that a high-tech company like Roon has such poor support for Linux, but that’s a different issue.)
My Roon trial is going to be a short-lived affair if I can’t reliably use the Kindle Fire as a control application. (I’m an almost 20 year user of Squeezeboxes and have been using the Kindle as a LMS controller for many years now.)
Any suggestions or do I just bail now. I’m not buying any more equipment to make this thing work.