Laptop not Core anymore ... unable to use it as a Playback device

[Womaz (Steve)]

This is my screen shot, I appear to have 2.
Should I set them both to private?

[Womaz (Steve)]

Ok so in a post above someone said to disable my windows defender. I have done this and the PC and a host of other things are now there.
However I cant leave this off indefinitely. How do I solve this?

[Geoff_Coupe]

Right so this tells us that indeed there is something wrong with the setup of Windows Defender Firewall for Roon. You need to have RAATserver enabled for access on your local home network (“private”). Your screenshot shows that RAATserver is enabled for access over the Internet (“public”), however, the rule for the raatserver.exe entry for your private network is actually unchecked. So then the Nucleus won’t see your endpoints on your laptop.

Enable your Windows Defender again. Then try enabling that unchecked rule for raatserver.exe that has “private” enabled (the first entry in the list). See what that does…

[Womaz (Steve)]

Tried this and the Burson disappears again

@Rugby

I would start by temporarily turning off the firewall and anti-virus on the laptop and then see, if the laptop and its audio devices appear under Settings/Audio. If so, then you need to add Roon, RoonServer, and RAATserver as exceptions. Even if you had previously set them as exceptions, Windows updates sometimes can change the settings back, forcing you to do it again.

This was posted above …I will try this now.

[Womaz (Steve)]

OK so tried all of the above and the Burson still cant be found.
I could not find Roonserver in my settings but the other two Roon and RAATserver I have checked as exceptions but it makes no difference.

So the only way to find the Burson is to disable the Windows Defender. Not really a satisfactory option.

I have two Roon entries on app section of the exceptions page and three RAATserver entries…could this be causing a conflict?

[Geoff_Coupe]

You won’t have roonserver in your list, because you haven’t installed the Roon Server software package - you have installed Roon (which contains raatserver.exe and roon.exe).

It may be that having wound up with multiple entries for raatserver.exe, Defender is getting confused. First thing to try is to make sure that all the entries have “private” checked. If that is the case, and still no joy, then I think the next step is to remove the raatserver.exe entries from the list, and then explicitly add a new entry for raatserver.exe in the list.

I have to go to a meeting now, but I’ll come back later…

[Womaz (Steve)]

I tried the above but still no joy.
So I deleted all of the rattserver.exe entries bar one and made sure it was set to private.
This worked. Geoff thanks again for all your help , and to everyone else who contributed.