Room 1.7 on Kindle Fire

[Ewan_Gunn]

Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number)
Intel Nuc 8 running ROCK Version 1.0 (build 183) stable.

Network Details (Including networking gear model/manufacturer and if on WiFi/Ethernet)
Wired network using powerline.

Audio Devices (Specify what device you’re using and its connection type - USB/HDMI/etc.)
Simple Audio Roomplayers running Reloaded which allows them to be used as Roon endpoints.

Description Of Issue
Prior to the most recent update I was able to use my Kindle Fire 7 as a Roon Remote. Since updating the software the app seems to start up with the big “Roon” text on screen and then just shuts down again. I’ve tried a factory reboot and still no joy. This is using the apk download. I can’t get the other Android one to download.

[dylan (Dylan Caudill)]

Hi @Ewan_Gunn,

Is this the 2017 model of the Kindle Fire 7? if so, please see Mike’s post here:

Roon's OpenGL Requirements

Roon 1.7 taps some previously unused OpenGL 3.0 features to enhance Roon’s text and color rendering, and to increase the performance of Roon’s UI engine across all of our supported platforms. OpenGL 3.0 was originally released in 2008, and has always been a minimum requirement to run Roon. While Mac users should be unaffected, we recently became aware that on Windows it was possible to run Roon with unsupported versions of OpenGL, which was causing instability when combined with the changes in …