It was my believe that the mobile builds for tablets (landscape GUI) are complete controls for Roon, offering all the features and options the desktop builds have, but lately I discovered the missing cog wheels in the about screen to configure the update policy for Roon.
I’m fully aware of the fact that this option is not needed for the mobile clients as they get their updates from their respective app store but there’s still the core and maybe bridges too.
Missing "Browse for image..."
On mobile OS’s, Roon insists that the user has to enter a valid URL instead of offering him the ability to browse for images in various places on and accessible to the mobile device.
Missing "Export" option
The export options seems to be completely missing.
I’m sure a Nucleus, maybe some bridges to connect all the audio equipment and one or more mobile device(s) to control Roon sounds appealing to many users but this differences make the use of a desktop version mandatory for full access to all options and settings of Roon. As today’s tablets are powerful enough to replace desktops for common use at home I think this should be corrected.
From the supported platforms I only have windows and android at hand. Does this difference also occur on OS X an iOS? Are there maybe other differences that are not listed here?
Please feel free to join the discussion and leave a +1 if you wanna support the request.
Especially agree on the “Missing Export availability” on iPads. There is no reason to disallow export of playlistst and other material on an iPad. It even makes the Export to Soundiiz kind of useless to me…
A way to circumnavigate that is setup your convolution filters on a Mac or Pc and then save them as presets.
Thereafter you can easily switch between them on your tablet.
I know that, but the purpose of this thread is to eliminate the dependence on PC based remotes for Roon. Modern tablets are powerful and versatile enough so that many could live without a (complicated to setup and maintain) PC, just using a Nucleus (or some other pre-built Roon Core from an other brand) as their Core and a tablet as main Roon Remote (and what ever else they might want to use it for).
I don’t get why it’s not already the case. Having to install roon remote on a computer and power it up each time for maintaining, correcting identification, optimizing playlist (it is the core which works so why is it not accessible from phone/tablet ?),… your database is a burden. Please, after so much time, upgrade this part of the experience.
It is accessible from tablet and phone, provided that the Roon Server is running. Of course, the Roon Server must be running, this is how Roon works: all data is held on the server, and all playback goes through the server. The GUI apps (be it PC, tablet, or phone) are just remote controls for the server.
If your Roon Server (Core) is not accessible from tablet or phone, you should open a technical support request: Go to Support ( ← click here) and then click the big Get Help button.
This is a different topic, though. This thread here is to request that tablet and phone remotes should have all features. This is by now already the case for tablets (expect for a small number of features that only work on PC remotes, like exporting to Excel/CSV files and adding a local image file as the album cover during editing).
The phone is currently intended only as a playback remote and most editing features are not included.
I presume I didn’t make me clear enough and apologize for that.
I read that the reason why roon remote on android doesn’t have these features is because android smartphone are “weak”… My point was only to say that all the work is done by the core which is, as you mentionned, on the server not on the phone. So I don’t get why those features are not implemented on android roon remote as well as on roon remote for windows PC.
I see. Though upon re-reading the thread and its title, I believe now that it may actually have been meant to be about tablets. The title says „tablet“ and phones were not mentioned until your post. I don’t know if there is a separate request about phones or of it’s meant to be here now. Certainly, with the growth of phone screens the difference got a bit muddled.
I don’t think the limitation is about phones being „weak“ as such, but more about display size. Though certainly both things have changed since 2019. Maybe it’s time to offer a switch so that the user can choose to use the tablet UI. It might work on larger phones. After all, the tablet UI is automatically used for Android devices with at least 8“ size and a Samsung Galaxy S26 has 6.9“. If this is too small for the existing tablet UI, then I guess that reworking the phone UI to include all features would be a lot of work.
