I'm trying to use an old iPad as a Roon display. When I enter the Web display URL, it displays the roon logo as expected, but it does not show up in the Roon settings as a display that I can enable. I'm guessing this has to do with the iPad running older browser versions (I tried both Safari and Chrome), but I'm wondering what exactly the requirements are for the browser to work. I'm thinking that it can't really be that demanding to display some images and text...
Describe your network setup
TP-Link devices controlled via the TP-Link Omada network controller
It’s tricky to do this, especially if yiou are trying to do it from Roon Remote on your iPad, because it sends the browser to the background and Roon Remote can’t see it suddenly. Try doing it from a different device running Roon Remote while your iPad’s browser is in the foreground.
Roon display via URL works for me on an iPad Mini 2 from 2013, running iOS 12.5.7 which dates from Jan 2023
I have Roon display configured as icon, so it is easy to setup.
Thanks for confirming that it works on iOS 12.5.7. My iPad has iOS 9.3.5…
But I’m not sure whether the iOS version matters at all. It might rather be the browser version or certain browser features that need to be activated. But in that case, the question is: which ones?
I’n hoping that there are no sophisticated requirements and the fact that I’m seeing the roon logo on the ipad points in that direction, but then the question is: why does it not show up in the roon settings?
Thanks for that hint. It is on the same subnet (I only have one). The ipad is showing the roon logo, so it is seeing the server, but the server is apparently not seing the ipad. Or it’s not recognizing it. It’s really strange since the server is serving the logo, it knows the client exists, but it is not showing it as a display for me to enable.
I’m very open, the problem is that iOS 9.3.5 is the highest iOS version that can be installed on this iPad.
It is not immediately evident to me why OpenGL ES 3.0 (let alone a 64-bit CPU) would be needed for displaying some metadata and album art, I assume that this is simply a base requirement within the Roon ecosystem. Fair enough.
To save hours of troubleshooting for affected users, I would suggest that instead of serving the Roon logo (which indicates that the device is compatible) to instead serve a text explaining that the device is not compatible with Roon.
We’re sorry to hear you were stuck in this frustrating position - we’ll certainly escalate your consideration to the relevant teams. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts here.
It’s been some time since we last spoke, so I wanted to check in with you here, are you still seeing this same issue? Note, to enable the iPad as a display zone, you would need to click on your Volume → Display Icon → Start Display. Do you see this option on your end?
I suspect you may not have properly started the Roon display functionality, you mentioned seeing just the Roon logo, but for it to display anything, it must be started as a display zone via the Volume icon while music is playing:
No, unfortunately, we are not implying this to be the case. We were more so just confirming that you attempted the second part of setting up the display functionality properly. Thank you for clearing this up.
We’ll bring this up with our development team no matter, but you have our apologies for any confusion along the way.
I’m not sure I understand the question. How else would I use the iPad as a display? And why is this a question, given that Roon doesn’t work on iOS 9.3.5?
I believe @benjamin is asking if you manually type the display URL into Safari, does it work
My URL is below. Yours will be in the Display settings page from the Roon Client. You would normally click in the ‘copy link’ and paste it in the browser search bar.
Although the Roon control app may not work on iOS9.x.x, the web display should.
I’ve also tested this with the Chrome browser, but without having a ios9.x.x device I cannot confirm if that’s available for this version. Other browsers should work. YMMV.
