Remote access to home Roon Server 2.0 with Laptop over VPN

[hammer]

Hi, I was hoping with Roon 2.0 that when I am away from home, say at a friends house, I can access my Roon Sever from my laptop over VPN using my friends internet service. The reason I am using a Laptop instead of Roon Arc is because I would like to plug an USB dac to the laptop. However, this does not seem to work. Should it?

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Hi Hammer,

At the moment ARC is only for mobile phone devices.

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

Other people have gotten this to work, so it should be possible. See for instance

Success with Tailscale VPN

This might be of interest to anyone who’s been struggling to get Roon working over a VPN. I installed Tailscale VPN on my roon server and on my iPhone… and it just worked. No extra configuration or tinkering required. Roon Remote auto-detection and streaming work over the VPN connection. Tailscale is a commercial VPN based on Wireguard, it’s free for personal use. I’ve found it to be excellent. https://tailscale.com

and

Roon 2.0 -- Remote Playback Works with VPN (No ARC Required)

For those of us who don’t want to open ports on our router/firewall for security reasons, Roon 2.0 remote playback works over VPN on a different subnet. I just updated to Roon Core 2.0 (build 1128) & Roon Remote for iOS 2.0 (build 1127). With wifi disabled I was able to connect via VPN over LTE (Wireguard VPN on pfSense firewall) and the iPhone was listed as a playback device.

[starlir]

Yes I too have Tailscale working, initially on my iMac and afterwards I installed on my Raspberry Pi and will now use that as my main Tailscale node. They have good documentation on how to do it and in fact I have migrated a number of other devices, previously using port forwarding, into the Tailscale environment using their subnet capability. Incidentally I’m running Rock on NUC 10th Gen i3.