Roon Cannot Play to Grouped Stere-Paird HomePod Minis

[Ali_Shafai]

I am able to stream to a single HomePod, but when I group them in Roon, I am not able to play to them.

The play action looks to begin, but within a second fails to play and stops.

What may be going on?

[Ali_Shafai]

@beka Can you please pick this up and help?

[beka]

Hey @Ali_Shafai,

Sorry for the delay and thanks for following up.

Actually, Roon does not support stereo paring of your HomePods. There is a feature suggestion for this.

If this is extremely important to you, one of our subscribers seems to have gotten it to work:

AirPlay 2 Support in Roon for Paired HomePods

I found it’s possible to create a stereo pair within Roon if one really wants this. Here’s what you do: Enable each HomePod, making sure the Volume Control is set “Device Volume”, and within Roon send some music to figure out which one is Left and Right and then label them appropriately (using little pencil icon). While playing on one of the HomePods, click the signal path and at the top select “DSP” [Screenshot 2020-06-11 at 12.43.27 PM] Within the DSP, click “+Add Filter” and selec…

[Ali_Shafai]

Thank you! I will check out the workaround.