For users, like me, who have only few ripped discs and which rely mainly on Qobuz or Tidal, having an hardware Roon Core at home does not make a lot of sense. A virtual Roon Core in cloud would be sufficient.
Even for people who have a music library, this library could be also in cloud.
Is a virtual Roon core being investigated ? Even with a small monthly fee, this would be very interesting.
Anyway, Microsoft is about to announce Windows 365, and we could install a Roon Core on it ! But Roon can optimize a virtual Roon Core, and a customized VM, and do a better offer.
A VM will be on an hardware NUC⌠I propose this for those who donât want to buy a NUC, donât want to backup it, donât want to hear fans, donât want to find a good place for it near router etc⌠This is all the point.
So, have you ever tested a rented cloud service where you run your own VMâs ?
It would be interesting to know if this work or not with Roon. I guess ROCK is the best option.
Roon doesnât natively cross VLAN boundaries so unless your audio devices are also in the same cloud space its not likely the hosted Core will see any output devices. Maybe once Mobile is in place you could do this.
It would be no issue with resources etc. of course just the nature of how Roon is designed to communicate over the network. It assumes/demands all devices be in the same subnet.
This could be overcome with an IPSec tunnel but that sounds too much like work.
This is the reason why Roon should have his own offer with all these problems solved or adressed. This is a âfeature requestâ. A âvirtual Nucleusâ.
My apologies. I didnât get that you were proposing Roon host the Core. It seems as it is there are enough problems network-wise on a local flat network. Abstracting to the cloud only compounds networking âissuesâ to support.
This could be a monthly income for Roon, from those who canât afford a Nucleus, or dont want to bother with hardware. Not only issues to support. Roon get nothing from thoses who make their own core, and would prefer a cloud solution.
I donât see the relationship between mobile and my request ? My request is about having only a Roon bridge or a Roon ready devices at home, freeing the burden (and cost) to have a Roon core at home.
In such case, running Roon Core on NAS, or running you own PC / Notebook(best for frequent traveler) add no extra cost to you, or even can recycle some old computer from buddy, intel core processor with 4 to 8G ram, onboard video will do, install Ubuntu/Roon Core software and OS for free, can be very low cost solution.
