You need the app or the remote to switch to another input on the Atom, such as a TV input if you use that. But not for anything else
For firmware updates, you need also the app.
By the way: Hating someone or something, produces mostly unneeded problemsā¦
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If you want to change inputs and update firmware you need the Naim app or the remote control. Other than that if all you do is use Roon it will do it all.
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The Naim app is set and forget. Hide any inputs you donāt use, name the inputs, and check for updates every once in a while. Apart from that it works seamlessly with Roon. I have the HDMI model, so with eArc attached, it wakes from standby and automatically switches inputs. If you play Roon, it will wake automatically.
Windows based Roon server - Uniti Nova - Kef R11 speakers - Martin Logan Depth i sub
I used to have a separate dac, amp etc ā¦ switched to this and never looked back.
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Yeah, for the basic device management itās just fine
Same here! It works perfectly.
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Hi all,
Apologies for bumping an old conversation. I see there are a lot of Naim Unity Atom users using Roon.
Question for those with this device: Can you the Naim Unity Atom be configured to control Roon while Roon is playing to a different endpoint?
Imagine this use case: you have the Naim Unity Atom HE, and listen on headphones using your Roon library. But you also have a pair of speakers connected to another Roon endpoint. Can you select music and control Roon volume on the Naim Unity Atom HE when that Roon Core is streaming to a different endpoint?
Seems obvious to me that should be possible (for instance, the Roon iPhone app is both an endpoint (iPhone speaker) as well as a Roon interface that lets you select any other endpoint and control Roon).
But before buying the Unity Atom, I wanted to ask to make sure.
Thanks.
The Naim is a Roon endpoint like all the other Roon ready endpoints.
The control (only volume or pause/play/next/previousā¦ can controlled directly on the Naim) for selecting Roon sources occurs with the Roon remote.
And with this, you can surely control all Roon endpoints, youāve in your system.
One special thing with the Naim Uniti Atom is, that is has for Roon a hardware (analog) volume control integrated.
Not too sure why you want to do this ?
The obvious way is to use the HE as a pre amp , it has RCA and XLR analogue outputs . Then to an amp CD input and hence speakers. At least that way you get the benefit of the Naim DAC and volume control in Roon.
While running through Roon you can adjust volume by using Roon or the big circular volume knob on the unit
Have I understood your question?
Either way the HE is a super device. I run mine through Sennheiser HD800, Focal Clear Mg and HiFiMan Arya
No you canāt. The Atom is a Roon Ready endpoint only it cannot control other devices. Roon Ready doesnāt work like that, itās a centrally controlled system. No Roon Ready device can control another thatās the job of the server via the remote app or Roon app on pc. They happen to enable playback as well due to the architecture of the app.
I think the short answer is yes. Roon can select and play music, and control volume, on multiple devices simultaneously. It can do this either with a multiroom group playing in sync (which could be your iPhone and an Atom) or it could do it while playing different music to each of the two (or more) devices at the same time.
The point is, though, that Roon can control the volume of each āendpointā device, rather than one endpoint taking control of another, which is not how it works.
Thatās not what heās asking. Heās asking whether he can control another end point using the Atom - the answer is no.
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Yes, but thatās not really what he means, is it? To control his Atom heās likely using the Roon app on his iPhone. He can then, without leaving the Roon app, control volume and playback on other Roon endpoints, including the iPhone itself.
I hardly think heās wanting to quit the Roon app and open the Naim app, or pick up the Atom remote, or use its physical volume control to control the device thatās in his hand.
This is right. Sorry if my question was unclear.
I guess I figured that, since Atom has an interface to browse Roon and select music, you could also control what Roon is sending to another Roon endpoint. (Much as you could use the Roon iPhone app to both control what that iPhone is playing and what another speaker somewhere else is playing.)
But I guess the Atomās Roon interface isnāt actually Roon Remote. Itās a limited, localhost-only version of Roon Remote.
No, you canāt browse and select your music for Roon directly on the Naim. There isnāt anything like Roon remote integrated in it.
You can only (also with the Bluetooth remote) stop, play, next, previous,ā¦ the with an external Roon remote selected playlist.
Again: This is the normal behavior for Roon ready devices.
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The Atom doesnāt browse Roon. You use Roon software on the Roon Core and/or Roon remote to browse, and to select an endpoint device to play it on.
The Atom has no version of Roon remote. Your iPhone is what runs Roon remote. The Atom is just the streaming client.
Thanks @ChrisSU. You are right. I thought that the Atom (probably because of its large screen) would allow full browse of Roon. That was my faulty presumption. Thanks for the clarification, all.
I assume you are referring to the Naim app. The home page offers āServersā , I see Plex and JRiver only. Roon is not a source neither incidentally is Audirvana. The actual device screen would be far too fiddly to navigate by routinely , I have mine remote from any access so I never try.
The rest of the home page offers built in applets for Tidal etc and attached USB (20k track limit)
After that you basically SEND to the Naim. The Naim app will display what you send and what the source is so you will see artwork and Roon Ready (Chromecast UPnP etc) but that is definitely "Read Onlyā
Perfectly happy to have Roon controlling the source material, and the amplifier controlling the playback volume, via the pre-amp stage.
In my case Roon feeds the UPnP stream to a Naim NDS network player, Roon Remote is an iPad/iPhone device, and the Amplification is a Sim Audio Moon i5. Source selection and volume control is either via the physical Moon remote, which is lovely to use, or I have consolidated all functionality on B&O remotes, either a Beo4 or a Beo5 with a touchscreen. Commands are processed via IR through a Lintronic module. This covers the Naim NDS, CD transport, Virgin STB, AppleTV, DVD transport & Chromecast plus control of the AV Preamp for source and volume selection.
We wish ā¦
I assume you mean RAAT !!
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