RAAT [was Roon Speakers] - What , When, How and for Whom?

[brian (Brian Luczkiewicz)]

The short answer is “not yet”, but work to enable this is in the pipeline. Check out these two posts for more information:

Private Devices - should be switchable

The “Private Devices” feature is very sensible. I don’t want my kids starting music on my laptop while I’m working as a joke. However, I want to use my NUC/touchscreen combo as a Control-like unit, using the USB output, the App in “Remote” mode. Because of the “Private Devices” feature, this is not possible, or at least not properly: although I’ll be able to control the zone from the touchscreen, I won’t be able to control it from anywhere else, which is not what I want. The mode needs to be s…

Zones and Private Zones

To clarify some confusion on Private Zones: Zones are composed of 1 or more endpoints (multi-endpoint zones are what we called grouped zones, so you can play the same thing in two locations or more). We only support grouped (or some people called it “linked zones”) with kind types… so for example, Meridian zones can link to Meridian zones, and Airplay with Airplay. USB zones can not be currently linked, but it is on our roadmap. A Roon Remote exposes its own outputs as zones, but the idea is t…