Moving from windows to linux, Roon control options

[tahsu]

Hi there,

I am making the move to Linux as my daily machine (from win 10) however I would still like to control Roon via the desktop. My fall back is to have a tablet sat next to me, but this is not quite right, plus my other half keeps nicking it!

So, I would either like direct control of Roon in linux, which I don’t think is possible, does anyone know different?

Or, I could run win 10 in a virtual mode and put the Roon control app in it (and maybe hqplayer, but that is another story). This all worked out fine until I got a “Roon could not find WGL functions required to initialise openGL”. I have googled around but I am not sure how to solve this, does anyone have any ideas?

Just to be clear, this is just control, I run ROCK on a separate NUC machine.

Thanks

[Martin_Webster]

@tahsu

So, I would either like direct control of Roon in linux, which I don’t think is possible, does anyone know different?

Yes, you can run Roon on Linux using Wine. See the following thread.

Roon control GUI working on Linux using Wine

Sorry to necropost. I also have this requirement, but I have Roon control working on Linux using Wine. The key is to create a unique Wine instance just for Roon. Create the Wine instance, I create a 32 bit instance, I can no longer recall why but haven’t changed it as it works (note WinRoon is the directory name I choose, its not overly important) env WINEPREFIX=/home/alan/WinRoon WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot Set the Window version to Win7 env WINEPREFIX=/home/alan/WinRoon winecfg Instal…

There’s also a script …

GitHub - RoPieee/roon-on-wine: Running Roon with Wine on Linux

[Jason_Carle2]

Yes, this is the option I was going to recommend. The script is super simple, basically a click and install solution to get Roon on Wine working.

[tahsu]

So are these two different things? Should I do the ropieee/roon on wine or look through the tinkering thread?
Thanks.

[Martin_Webster]

They are both related. The script is mentioned in the thread, but the script is hosted on GitHub.

[tahsu]

Thanks @Martin_Webster! It worked! I don’t know how much functionality it has, but it is great to control via the desktop.

[Jason_Carle2]

I haven’t been able to find any functionality missing.

[tahsu]

Thanks @Jason_Carle2 - nothing missing so far!