Roon and using VPN

Tinkering
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Roon Core Machine

Mac mini M1

Networking Gear & Setup Details

Ethernet

Connected Audio Devices

NAD Receiver via LAN

Number of Tracks in Library

1000

Description of Issue

It’s correct that Roon doesn’t work via VPN ?

When VPN is active I have problem to see all covers and pics in the overview

When it’s stopped no problems

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This has been my experience.

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I’ve had mixed results, but best by excluding Roon from VPN on both server and client machines. On my PC running Roon Core, I exclude both roon.exe and raatserver.exe. On the client Android device, I exclude the Roon app (as well as other audio apps). Except for a short delay recognizing the Core, this seems to work well.

I’m using ProtonVPN, which allows such split tunneling. I don’t know if all VPN providers allow excluding certain apps or IP addresses.

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Using Roon through a VPN; this works but needs tinkering.

Using Roon while connected to a network with VPN:

  • some clients can ignore local traffic through settings
  • some clients tunnel everything
  • lots of other (network) rarities can be experianced

As always, YMMV

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No problems with ExpressVPN so far (iMac). Lots of problems with other VPN-services.

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