Hi - I am wondering with the shortage whether there is such a thing as a ready-to-go WiFi Pi solution I can plug into my Schiit stack as a Roon endpoint for my headphone rig? I have read the guides and watched the videos - it’s just not in my wheelhouse to set this up on my own. Any advice on a standalone solution (doesn’t have to be Pi-based) would be much appreciated!
Here’s some options.
ifi, projekt, musical fidelity and others have some pretty much plug and play solutions
Honestly, an RPi running RoPieee is a piece of cake to set up and it’s phenomenal value for money. If you don’t have the confidence to do that, send me the parts and I’ll build it for you and send it back!
I’d never touched an RPi before Roon. Now I have 3 of them, all with touchscreen displays, powered via PoE.
There’s no need to pay over the odds for an endpoint - it’s job is to take the network data stream and convert it to a digital output via USB, preferably, to feed a DAC.
So irritating that all UK stockists have no supply at present😤
Wow, really expensive. Nice looking boxes though if you want form over function.
Just built a 60wpc amplifier/DAC/Airplay/Roon endpoint for my wife and her bookshelf speakers using a Pi 3 ($130) and a HifiBerry Amp2 ($40). Needless to say the pi 3 woulda cost probably $30 before the pandemic.
Took about 15 min. Although spent an hour trying to diagnose why AirPlay wouldn’t work before I realized that I had downloaded the wrong version of Ropieee.
I wrote a step-by-step account of setting up a ROC-RK3328-CC as a roon bridge here:
https://community.roonlabs.com/t/setting-up-a-roc-rk3328-cc-as-a-roon-bridge/234596
This device is available for $40 or $50 on Amazon depending on the RAM and works beautifully as a Bridge. The instructions are somewhat Mac-centric and I understand this is not in your wheelhouse… however, the price is right and it’s really not too difficult.
I just got one of these for $35 on eBay. You have to search for the ones with WiFi cards, and it’s not utterly foolproof - but if you just want a Roon bridge, this is one very smart and inexpensive way to figure it out. But it is not as appliance-like as the RooExtend or Ropieee and certainly not as feature-rich as either.