I have been running Roon core on a HP 405G6 mini computer running Win 11 set up headless as a music server for about a year. Everything has worked great, including have the server go to sleep at night and turn back on in the morning. About two months ago, Roon stopped autoloading in the morning and now I have to remote in everyday to launch it. I have checked:
-Startup apps Shows three roon labs LLC and one roon server, all enabled.
-Task Manager show shows “roon” twice in startup and Roon server. All enabled.
I made no changes to the system. Any thoughts. Do I just do an uninstall and start from scratch? Any directions on how to do a clean uninstall to get rid of any gremlins?
Finally, I thought Roon had merged Server and Roon. Should I be installing roon server, roon, or both on a Win11 running headless that I access through remote desktop. It is not used an endpoint, only a true server.
I’ve never had this kind of problem in three years of using Roon server on Windows, but there have been reports of things getting changed by Windows updates.
If you’re remote desktop’ing into the machine, is it to use Roon’s GUI to control playback and such?
If so, you need the regular Roon application, since the server version comes without GUI (nothing to see and control there).
You can also install both the server (as the core) and the regular application (as the remote) on the same machine.
Explanation:
It does happen, although very seldom in my environment, that the regular version somehow gets confused and reacts erroneously or even quits.
If only the regular version is installed, music stops.
With both applications running, music continues and restarting the regular application brings back the GUI.
Thanks. I am going to try uninstalling. I only remote in for servicing. I do use the gui on remote desktop to view what is going on, but control everything from the endpoints. So it looks like really on need server the headless unit. Will try starting with just the server.