Meridian Ellipse speaker marked as uncertified?! [added Oct 2024]

Hello,

I received my Meridian ellipse today, and wanted to test some music using Roon (RAAT), but it lists the speaker as uncertified and I’m unable to activate it. What next? When can I use this device with Roon?

Frans

The Meridian web site lists the Ellipse as being Roon Ready, but the Roon site does not list it as being Roon Ready. So it look like it is, in fact, not Roon Ready so RAAT won’t work, but maybe the evaluation is still in progress.

As a work around it looks like you can connect to the Ellipse with a USB cable. Of course you would have to be near enough to your Roon server for that to work.

It supports Airplay and Google Cast, so these can be used over a network connection to the Ellipse as well.

I suspect that Meridian have jumped the gun, and that certification by Roon Labs is still in progress.

Yes, AirPlay is working. Looks like the certification is not completed indeed…

I suspect Roon @support may have a better idea of when this will be completed than Meridian, but it would be nice to know when it’s coming.

Any updates no this? @support

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Roon Labs never comments on expected certification dates for specific devices.

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Looks like it’s just been certified:

https://www.instagram.com/roonlabs/p/DBhEe2Wt_Ju/

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Following on from my previous post about Roon announcing it has now been certified, it doesn’t seem to work. Possibly waiting for some software updates to become available…

At some point in the past few hours, Roon is now working over RAAT with the Ellipse. Not sure whether a reboot was needed, but it’s quite happy now.

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