Lately, I have been encountering music stop playing, with the seekba moving left and right, and I can’t pause it, too. This can only be solved with RoonServer being restarted. It will be nice, if I can restart/reboot RoonServer (headless) from my Roon Remote.
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Hi Gary,
A restart RoonServer from a remote would be convenient so +1 from me for that.
If the stopping playing is continuing, please feel free to open a thread in the Support category. I expect @mike would want to know all about that.
Cheers,
Andybob
roonserver is designed to restart itself. User should not have to intervene.
I expect the guys will need to see what is causing your remote to hang.
Hi Nick,
“should not” can be different from “doesn’t have to”.
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I don’t think it was the Remote issue or hanging as you had put it. I can click forward or backward and songs jumped to next or previous title, this proved that Remote is not hanged. I can’t paused and the progress bar keeps swiping left and right.
Only after I restarted my RoonServer, I can start using my Remote to play song again.
Andy, I agree. Was just referencing Brian’s post yesterday which is the “should” version.
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Would be great if you could restart the headless core (server) via the room iPad remote.
Have had the occasional issue where things have ground to a halt - tidal tracks not playing for example - and requiring a core restart. It’s then quite tricky especially for a non technical user to fix the problem. A ‘restart server’ menu somewhere in settings would be ideal.
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I support this
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Able to restart RoonServer from Roon client would be useful. I have DAC which I turn off when not used. When I turn my DAC on, RoonServer won’t work until restarted. Doing this by logging to headless server via TeamViewer or remote desktop (i’m using Windows 10 as platform for RoonServer and ASIO for output) is uncomfortable.
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Even with the improvements in 1.2, my core is still at times “stalling” when playing 24 bit tracks.
My guess is that my local network is the cause of the bottleneck, unfortunately the Roon Core doesn’t deal with it particularly well and basically freezes up.
My workaround is to simple reboot the cost on my host PC. Unfortunately, it’s in a completely different room, which is rather inconvenient.
Can you please add the capability to reboot the core remotely from an App, or a remote install of the software.
That would at least give us a far more easily actioned manual resolution.
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Yes, please!
Wouldn’t you rather they fixed the root problem?
Sure, but there may not be a single root problem? So until the time comes when restarting the Server in all setups and configurations is never required, it would be a convenient feature to have….
As per hifi_swlon, yes, of course I’d like a root cause solution.
However, as already suggested, the root cause might take months to resolve and this would a far more convenient workaround
Additionally, it’s quite possible that future upgrades might “introduce” a new issue that would require this type of workaround, meaning that this could have future as yet unknown benefits.
I am on the 14-day trial and I have had to restart Roon server on my headless PC twice in the last week due to clients (iPad & Google Pixel) not being able to connect. I know the network connection is fine because I used remote desktop to connect to the headless machine and while connected, I restarted the client apps which failed to connect to Roon server. I dd confirm that Roon server was running and clicked on the Quit menu option.
Regardless of how confident Roon devs are about the watchdog service, it would be useful to provide client support for a forced restart for corner cases you may not have encountered in your testing.
Let me know if I can provide logs to help debug this if it happens again.
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One more vote for the ability to stop and restart the Roon Core from a Remote.
Twice today, Roon Radio has tried to play a song from Tidal (both times, by the band The Comsat Angels, by the way) and failed, and thereafter has been unable to play anything from Tidal or Qobuz until I quit and restart the Roon Core. Being able to do this from the iPad I am using to control Roon (rather than having to remote in to the server) would be very helpful.
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+1
Additional vote for this. I went to add this as a feature request and found this post from 2015.
Periodically my Roon environment gets glitchy – messages about Tidal songs not found (although playing the song fine), Display issue (happening today), problems with iOS remotes not finding my server.
I would like to be able to restart my server periodically.
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Since there is a lot of instability in the Roon Core (in Combination with QNAP and LINN DS)
I want to have a restart Button in the Roon Config Menu just beside the disconnect Button.
I don’t want to reboot the whole nas just because of Roon Problems.
best regards,
Thomas
Welcome to the forum, @Thomas_Koch1!
This isn’t normal behaviour, so you may want to open a thread under Support to look into the stability issues. On my Ubuntu server Roon runs for weeks or months without need for a restart.
However, you should be able to stop/ restart Roon on the QNAP using the init.d script. For example, issue the following command from an ssh session.
/etc/init.d/roonserver restart
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