As volume via iPhone and Airplay works this should also work if you use Airplay from Roon. But in this scenario you are limited to 16/48 so no hires output to the Marantz.
My recommendation would be to use UPnP instead. Roon don’t support it but I offer rooUPnP
With it activated on your Raspberry Pi you can stream Hires via UPnP. There is a seven day trial License you can get for some few dollars. This is a recurring license every seven days. If rooUPnP works for you please let me know. Please don’t forget to cancle the test subscription before getting a lifetime or annual license for it.
In my download area you find the rooExtend-Box manual and the Quick Installation Guide helping you to set up rooUPnP. You also find a list of tested devices in there. There is one Marantz device in the list so there is a good chance that this solution will work for you.
If you prefer a free UPnP streaming solution you can also try out this solution and install it on your MAC for example.
Hi DrCWO, thanks for your input.
I have all ready tried installing Rheos, but never got it to function properly.
I will give the RooUPnP a try. This will route all the traffic through the Raspberry Pi, will it not?
Forgive me for being ignorant, but will an UPnP solution have any limitation on the channel count?
Best regards Per
You are right, the traffic will be routed through the Raspberry Pi. But this is digital data only and therefor there will be no quality loss at all.
To be quite frank I have no multichannel audio files so I don’t know. You have to try.
Hi DrCWO, I have the RooUPnP installed and it works good.
It was fairly easy to set up and it transfers the volume control to the AVR as you said.
Only problem is, that Roon do some channel mapping 5.1 —> 2.0
So I am not sure about the way forward and will spend a while to consider.
Thanks for your help…
Best regards Per
Sorry for that but as said: I never tested with multichannel. Do you have a lot of multichannel audio tracks? I ask because you are the first complaining about this missing feature…
No harm done - I got a chance to test it myself and could not make it work.
With regards to number of multichannel tracks, I wouldn’t say I have a lot, but it is my opinion, that for some albums it is really a major gain for the experience, so I would like to go further down that route.
There is by now quite a few Dolby Atmos high res tracks on Apple Music with very variable quality. Problem being, that you have to play it via the Apple TV or via Airplay.
Just got mine. The setup was the easiest of all the roo* extensions yet. Loving it!
Is there a way to make it so when I play a playlist, it plays a shuffled / random track right away? Right now it starts from track 1 and I have to click shuffle and next, like a peasant (lol).
Hello,
I have sent back the Raspberry Pi 3a+, and I have received the Pi 3b. I have got the Dial working properly now! I have two questions:
Can I have two more dials+licenses attached to one Raspberry Pi for different zones?? It works all over my house, just maybe getting one for my kids room/ different zones??
Will the Xencelabs Quickkeys work with the Raspberry Pi 3b or do I need the Raspberry 4?? The Quickkeys that I got has a usb 3 plug in instead of a regular usb, so I am not able to plug it in to test it. Wondering if I should order an adapter or the Pi4??
Heather.
Great it now works for you
Regarding your questions:
One Raspberry, One Dial One License Key. The Bluetoothimplementation did not allow for more than one Bluetooth device at a time. So you can Either runnSurface Dial or Nuimo.
What you can do is run other devices in parallel for same or different zones with the Surface Dial. The SpaceMouse for example or the Quick Keys Controller or the Apple Watch.
Quick Keys works with Pi3B. Funny, my Quick Keys dongle has USB-A and was shipped with an adapter to USB-C. Are you sure that you can’t plug the USB A dongle out of the adapter?
Oh, I figured out the dongle and it is now working perfectly! It’s a great remote!
If I were to get a second Quickeys and second license, can I just plug it in and have two working? Or do I need a seperate Raspberry Pi for that? I would like to have one more for upstairs…
Hello @DrCWO I am enjoying RooMax very much, thank you. I am wondering whether it will be possible to integrate the new Listen Later function in future by mapping it to a Control Set button?
I would I could. But there is no functionality for that in the Roon API I have to use. Please send Mail to Roon support and ask for additional playlist support in the Roon API.
Thank you for the prompt reply. I suspected that might be the case. I hope Roon adds the functionality in their API. Listen Later seems to be a high profile expansion of the functionality judging by how deeply embedded it is.
I just got rooEntend and Quick Keys and I am very disappointed. I can not hook my playlists (not seen b extension). And the only reason I bought this thing was for my wife to have 6 buttons to push to get Jazz Ballads or Dan Gibson’s Solitudes and this type of stuff.
I went thru all those posts about renaming folder or webhooks. Renaming folder did not work, webhooks are above my paygrade. I did also started new clean database another unneeded hustle took me few hours. Any way - since I bought a solution I would expect someone to tell me what to do… So far it is das Katastrophengebiet
