rooDial a Wireless Volume Knob for Roon with Microsoft Surface Dial

Is part of next release, still working in my home :+1:t2::grinning:

1 Like

Has the speed that the dials rotation changes the volume changed with Roon 1.8?

Before it was great, now it is way to fast. I barely move the dial and it is jumping up in 5, 10, or more. Goes from medium level to off with a small movement. Makes it hard to turn the music down.

Remove batteries and retry please. Should work as it did before in 1.7.

I have followed all the instructions.
Pi zero

When I put the key in it reads:

Not Licensed in Red

Please advise

You may need to select the ā€œLicense Actionā€ dropdown just above where you enter the key, I missed that yesterday myself :slight_smile:

Yargi Thanks that did itā€¦:slightly_smiling_face:

1 Like

Also having licensing problemsā€¦ I had it working before, but now 2 things have changed:

  • Updated roon to 1.8
  • Installed new internet modem, so also a new Wifi ssid.

So I flashed the memory card again (v1.2.0), got it connected with Roon, but the license key doesnā€™t seem to work. After I select the License Action to read ā€œLicenseā€, and copy/paste my key and click Save, it immediately returns to the Roon extension overview screen, still reading ā€œnot licensedā€.

Tried it with Roon on Windows and Android, both same behaviour.

Iā€™ve had the same behaviour occuring a couple of times, after the pi was restarted, p.e. because I moved it to another power socket.
Every time removing & inserting the batteries of the dial it worked ok again.

Have you revoked the license before flashing the memory card?

Aarrrgh I totally forgot to do thatā€¦

We have all done itā€¦well many of us failed on this step :upside_down_face:

1 Like

Everything seems to work now. I can see the R&L on the Extensions line.

However the volume remains resolutely at the same level.

Do i need to change something in device setup ?

Have you selected the zone you like to control :thinking:

By ā€œZoneā€ do you mean the output device? ie DAC.

If so yes. I have a number to chose from.

The Roon CORE is a ROCK with a Hard Drive directly attached.

All devices a (apart from the PiZero bridge) are on Ethernet.

The Dial makes the line in Extension change from L-> R but the volume does not change

I now see what you mean by ā€œZoneā€

It needed setting in the Extension Setting dropdown !!

All working

Operator Error

Thanks for everything

1 Like

Awesome, that worked! Thanks

Upgraded to 1.2 today and latest Roon. Are the shortcut for pause changed? Volume respons but not the pause.

I did take a view on the shortcuts and it use a space based on the info in Roon, but the command in extension seems sending a P

rooDial does not send characters. The P means ā€žPressedā€œ. What happens when you press can be customized in the settings of rooDial. There was no change in the Roon Extensions API in v1.8.

Thanks. I tried set short and long press to pause. Also double press. But music keeps playing regardless how much I hope for it to stop.

Since it respond to press, what is to try next? Any suggestions?

Double press