Given that Roon doesn’t incorporate WOL, and now with ARC third party WOL workarounds probably don’t work remotely to the home network, what is the most efficient NUC which will run ROCK with the least amount of power usage at idle?

ROCK idles the CPU very aggressively when not it is not used. If you pick a 15W TDP NUC, you’ll cap it at 15W, and usually, you’ll hover in the low single digits of wattage. I have a kill-a-watt meter on mine, which runs about 2kWh/mo – or here in New York, about US$0.50.

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mikeb November 14, 2022, 4:51pm 12

Yeah, I should have put 10 watts in the box, which is fairly constant for my 7i5.

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