Restart Roon ROCK remotely?

[GregD (Greg Dowling)]

If you’re running ROCK - then therer are a few basic url commands you can use.

I used the power off one to power mine off at night (along with a WOL to start it again) using home assistant (which runs on a Pi)

Roon module for Home Assistant

Home Assistant on off switch for Roon Rock In case anyone is interested I’ve added a switch to my home assistant - which will turn on and off a Roon ROCK. I’ve set up an automation to turn mine off late at night - and turn back on early in the morning to try and save a little power. [Screenshot 2023-02-11 at 11.28.16] This uses two home assistant integrations - neither of them roon specific! One allows you to send wake on lan packets - the other allows you to call rest services. To send a w…

You’ll find the reboot command here (along with a possible useful wget command):-

Restart Roon ROCK remotely?

Apropos of nothing, (though I agree a proper solution is required with ARC) here is how I do it at the moment. My Synology NAS allows a remote connection to its management interface via a web browser. This is simple to setup, but obviously presupposes you have a NAS! I create a scheduled task in the NAS UI that just performs a GET connection to the reboot URL for ROCK. The script looks like this; #!/bin/bash wget -nd --delete-after http://rock.local/1/reboot When away from home I login to t…

Of course you’ll need to find a way to schedule this via another machine on your network.