Another patch release as there was still a minor WiFi regression. Pretty sure we caught all of them.
Anyways, this patch release also sees some improvements to the new ‘UPnP Bridge’ functionality. Huge thanks to @Richard_Wright for his willingness to test and live through all my beta builds
Here’s the changelog for completeness:
NEW: [XL] UPnP Bridge: support for volume control
IMPROV: [XL] UPnP Bridge: support for Marantz/Denon devices
IMPROV: bump Linux kernel
FIX: [XL] librespot (spotify) not working from Scandinavia aria
FIX: WiFi configuration can’t handle passphrase with multiple special chars
Thank you Harry for this update.
My 4 “RPI 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3” updated without any problem. 2 are wire connected, and 2 are updated over WiFi. No issues encountered.
Great work, Frank.
I updated my two RPi4’s running RoPieeeXL with no issues.
I’m now testing my “away from home” unit running Roon core on my Dell laptop connected to my iPhone 13 Pro Max 5G hotspot. The RPi4 is connected by WIFI to my Dell hotspot which is just an extension of the iPhone hotspot. Output from the RPi4 is USB to Mojo 2 and Focal Clear headphones.
I’m not sure anyone else is running this setup, but it works great away from home when using different iDevices for hotspot data. There is no need to fool around in the RoPieee program changing WIFI settings, such as iPhone to iPad to iPad2, etc.
This works very well and avoids using USB out of my Dell to the Mojo 2 which proved to be very noisy at resolutions of 96 and 192. There are other ways to do this, of course.
Normally updating is a breeze, but not this time: Getting a “can’t connect to the server ropieee.local” message. Reloaded the page after waiting, and Ropieee is back up, but don’t seem to be updated, as my version is RoPieee 2022.06.2 (0397).
Just installed 2022.06.2 a few minutes ago on my Allo USBridge Signature (RPI 3B Compute), and now playback is plagued with lots of clicks and pops.It unusable. I wish I could revert to 2022.06.2 which worked fine.
I normally resample to DSD128 and turned that off in Roon, it’s not skipping when playing 44k 16 bit. It will not play MQA files without skipping. Playing 352.8k 24 bits there are ticks and warbles.
This feedback is while trying to play an MQA file. (Note that my dac does both unfolds so this is essentially a 44.1k 24 bit stream.)
Hi Harry,
Thank you for the update, I will switch to the beta channel and let you know what the outcome as soon as I know (working hours right now unfortunately.)
Hi Harry,
I have the pops as well. If I change the sampling rate in roon to lower values it will go.
It looks like buffer handling, saw in the netwok traffic to roopieee a not really consistend behavior…
my be I am wrong…
I switched to beta as well.
best bernd
PS: running not XL only pure roopieee 2022.06.3 (0433)
Hi Harry,
Loving ropieee with roon, but have had a longstanding issue with the next generation and remote control (works perfectly under 4.017, failing under 2022.06.3 (0450) and earlier).
I’m unable to control volume/play/pause with my remote on a grouped zone.
Logging seems to indicate the name of the grouped zone has " + 2" appended (as there are 3 endpoints in the zone) but that breaks the grab remote lookup, and the web configuration ui won’t allow the suffix. Can provide the logs if that helps.
Hi Harry,
Just wanted to let you know that the beta has worked perfectly over two listening sessions playing a variety of different formats. I think the issue is resolved. Again many thanks for addressing this so quickly. I understand that you have other things to do.
