I run Roon Core in docker on my NAS and have a pfSense box running OpenVPN. I was in another state for the last week and with the OpenVPN client on my iPhone was able to listen to Roon remotely using this: How I got Roon working over OpenVPN (hard for me, easy for you)
Hi @Aaron_Turner I tried OpenVPN in the past and it would work for awhile, but once it cutout on the road (which it would always do at two specific spots without fail), I couldn’t get it to reconnect to Roon. Or, if I could connect, my phone wouldn’t be listed as a device. But that was on my Netgear router. Now that I have my PfSense, I’ve gotten on the Wireguard bandwagon because it’s a lot easier to setup than OpenVPN is on PfSense. I figure if all else fails w/ Wireguard, I’ll go back to OpenVPN.
Just testing my softether VPN running on RPi (connected directly to router by ethernet) on WIFI out of my home network and I cannot seem to connect to the Roon core. I can see it in the roon app but the connection fails. The place I am testing from is somewhere I can access the network settings on the router.
Do you have any ideas how I can connect by WIFI using the VPN on my device? Works fine on 4G but the signal is very poor at this place.
Thanks
Is there anywhere a step by step guide about setting up remote access with a Synology NAS?
I know it might have already been mentioned somewhere above but there are 263 answers in this thread and it’s very hard to search in it due to the time it takes to refresh to load newer responses.
Many thanks
Well, I have successfully set an OpenVPN server on my pfSense router and when I connect to it from my phone with mobile data I find my Roon core and sometimes I can see my phone as a zone and play music as normal.
When it works the connection and overall user experience is rock solid!
My problem is (and that’s why I say sometimes) most of the times I’m not able to set ‘‘this phone’’ as an output zone. It will not appear in the list while it will show all other available zones in my network.
Any idea why is this happening?
Hi,
I would like to ask, i use a Mikrotik router that has a working VPN.Synology running ROON.
The problem is that I can’t stream to iPhone or NB with Win 10. They are not seen as audio devices.
The question is, is it somehow set up only in Mikrotik without program installation?
I read different threads but I’m not very wise about it. Thanks a lot for the info
It is truly unacceptable that the entire roon message board is full of thousands of posts and replies to simply use roon on a mobile phone outside the house 
And yet 3-4 years later roon have still done cuck all about this desperately lacking feature
It’s simply not good enough and drives away most people. All my friends tried roon until they realised they couldn’t use it on the road, massive amounts of lost business everywhere from this oversight.
ITS NOT tHAT HARD FFS BUILD IN REMOTE ENDPoINtS!
If you think it’s so simple why not design your own software streaming system and make millions…
Obviously it’s still not far up enough their list of priorities to be worked on yet…or simple enough to just slot in.
Maybe try orastream if you are so desperate to have something.
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People already strugging with streaming to their home, with dozens of ISP issues and what not. Imagine how many people are gonna have connection issues when trying this outside of their home over cellular. Not to mention that many ISPs provide significantly less upload speeds than download speeds.
Well of course YMMV but it should be no different to a streaming service. Just build in a transcoder so you can set it to a lower quality outside home if needed etc.
Plex and other apps already do this flawlessly and it works great, but because they are not a dedicated music metadata service I’d prefer roon to be able to do this too.
It’s not too much to ask it’s 2022 FFS and coding good apps is an expectation not a luxury when it’s a paid service and others are doing it already for free in some cases.
Just sort it out already roon team clearly the board is full of these requests for years.
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What makes me laugh, is Roon’s focus on Streaming only customers, somebody paying for Roon just to stream Qobuz or Tidal at home and not being able to use Roon outside their home just doesn’t make sense to me.
I cancelled Tidal to get a better local library experience and ended up losing new music discovery, I ended up connecting a Qobuz download only account as a “hack” to get new music discovery back.
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It is actually very simple. You can do it with logitechmediaserver, a software made 15 years ago and opensource.
They just need to add the option to locate server/endpoints with IP instead of relying completely on multicast/broadcast packets (which is actually way more complex)
I’ve had roon remote for a few years now with ZeroTier…no need to reinvent the wheel here.
What would be great is if somebody from Roon Product team chimed in here. I am an ex-network engineer and have Roon running in a container on ProxMox combined with all my other home services such as Plex and PiHole, so “making it work” is not the issue. Some things though, should “just work”. It’s very frustrating to be at a friends house and try to remember those three new artists you found, and added to your Roon library. Then you explain to your Spotify friend how cool Roon is, but you are not able to see your own favourites. Weak marketing.
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I have to agree, zerotier takes 5 minutes to setup and just works. I now have roon at work…
Happy me
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I was able to get remote access working in Wireguard under Unraid 6.10.0-rc4. My core runs in a docker under Unraid as well. Choosing Remote tunneled access under Peer type of access while defining my peer enabled me to both connect to the core as well as play music to the local endpoint that the VPN is connected to, such as the Roon client on my phone while on the cell network.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with ZeroTier but I can’t find the Core on iOS. To make matters worse, the little box to force an IP when you click Help in the iOS app doesnt seem to work – any where you tap just closes that dialog box.
I’ve had the Windows machine running roon and the iOS client on the same subnet via ZeroTier, I’ve even attempted having ZeroTier use the same subnet as my home network, but nothing.
I guess I’ll try a wireguard config next.
edit: tried ZeroTier with an android device. Roon just stops at “enabling” and the android app cannot act as an audio output
Wouldn’t it be nice if Roon just offered an active agent that creates and maintains an outbound connection constantly to a Roon proxy which then allows your applicatoin to instantly connect from outside the house as needed.
And even better, provide a transcoder with a tick box for ‘transcode items to X quality when playing over proxy/remote’
HOLY ■■■■ that would be so good. And its really not that hard, COME ON ROOOOON!!! This is standard practice for IT software nowdays, I know this because I work in the industry around this all day. PLEASE PLEASE hurry up and implement this.
How this is not TOP priority right now astounds me, I have had so many friends try Roon and throw it away because it can’t stream outside the house. You are losing SO MUCH business here, and its so simple to fix with a feature. I want roon to get more money and grow, as it only helps us. COME ON!
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Exactly. I use Room because I love being able easily to connect to / route to many disparate devices in my house, but once I get more than 20’ outside the house, I simply lose access. Meanwhile, despite their geeky look / feel, JRiver, Plex, and OraStream (among others) allow me to listen to my collection pretty much seamlessly anywhere in the world, and have for years 
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It needs a transcoder to stream lower quality over the air/mobile network/s.
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