Latest software version for Roon Ready devices

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Hi.

I see there is an updated 2.65 version for Roon Bridge devices. Does this get applied automatically to Roon Ready devices, or does th manufacturer have to issue updated firmware?

Thanks

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Roon Ready devices use the Roon SDK, they don’t run Bridge.

(And Roon Ready = RAAT is designed to not require firmware updates in the normal case: https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/raat#Design_Goals)

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I realise that. The question was whether any of the changes in the 2.65 version of the Roon Bridge software would be automatically replicated to Roon Ready devices. This would presumably require an updated version of the SDK.

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Well, you asked, “2.65 version for Roon Bridge devices. Does this get applied automatically to Roon Ready devices”, so it was at least ambiguous.

I think this is answered in the link:

Support for new streaming services, file formats, DRM schemes, etc can be supported without a firmware upgrade. In fact, the only reason an upgrade should be required is to fix a low-level bug, or to access more hardware functionality. This is really important. Not all partners/hardware have easy firmware update paths that can be done at home. Our acceptance of this reality has deeply influenced RAAT’s design. Just as with Google’s Cast devices, the majority of the business logic is delivered to the device at run-time as a script. This means that we are capable of completely re-designing the audio streaming and buffering logic without updating device firmware. This is absolutely critical, since most of the bugs + evolution in a system like this relate to networking, not audio. Other than Cast, we are unaware of another system that is this flexible.

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I don’t think it does. I have two RR devices, each one with a different SDK, and both work fine after the update.

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Thanks both

I think the section Suedkiez quotes applies to both Bridge and SDK implementations, and explains why updates to the Bridge software are much less frequent than those to the Server.

The reason for asking the question was that the information about the new release (including the bridge) talked about a newer and more modern code base, so I wondered whether this would be implemented for Ready devices too.

Vitor’s experience show’s it’s not mandatory.

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