Roku -- time to re-visit?

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Now that Roon is allied with Harman, perhaps it is a good time to re-visit Roku. Its installed base of users could become a new growth opportunity if there were an app-based method to treat any Roku TV or streaming box as a Roon endpoint, without an external audio streamer or input switching.

Roku does implement Apple Airplay, but that solution obligates an Apple phone, so far as I have been able to determine. Mine is Android.

It is too bad that Roku and Google had a disagreement, and as a result, Chromecast disappeared from the Roku streaming service.

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You can use an Android device as a remote to control Roon playback on a Roku endpoint using Apple Airplay. It doesn’t need to be an Apple device.

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Thank you. Sorry. I could not get that to work.

I have a good endpoint solution, because it is a Google TV running a Roku Ultra streaming box. I get Chromecast seamlessly and easily whenever the TV is on and I choose it via the Roon android app as the endpoint device. The TV automatically switches input from Roku to Roon (and back when I leave Roon and press the Roku home button). Then it’s a Toslink out to a Cambridge Audio Dacmagic and then into a CA AXA 35 integrated amp and overhauled Baby Advent 3 speakers. Excellent.

This was a business-related post. A simple Roku Roon app solution could reach out to a large installed base of users.

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Given there isn’t one for Google TV or Apple TV which have just a large share I don’t see this happening. Roons UI won’t easily translate to the large screen format and controlling it would be not great. It’s been designed for mouse and touchscreen. It would be a very limited and slow experience on TV.

Getting Roku to make their devices Roon Ready would be better as it’s not an app. This is down to them to reach out to Roon and implement it using their SDK. FiiO did this for their line of Android Music Players.

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