I want to announce that there is ROON driver coming soon. Development have been on the way some time and its getting closer to release.
The aim of the driver is to be able to create a bit more simplfied GUI for inclusion in a Home Automation system. The different apps will still have more features, this will be a more direct version to control Browsing, searching and playing music.
RTI is a more cost effective control system than C4, Crestron, Savant & AMX. To learn more about RTI, please have a look at www.rticontrol.com
Pricing and terms for the driver are not finalised yet.
This post will be updated as the project proceeds (I am not the one who writes the code, thank god)
Unfortunately frogress is very slow. But there is a alternate ROON project going on with the guys at Habitech UK. That is currently your best bet. I have tried it, it works well, but not all functions are fully implemented yet.
Some time ago I learned that Habitech UK was developing a driver and I have tested it for a couple of weeks and it is working really smooth. I guess there will be an announcement for this driver very soon.
Meanwhile we are waiting for the driver mentioned above still, but something will turn up eventually.
Yes, it is working relly well. Bear in ming I have +10400 albums and +140000 songs and it performs really well on a XP6s processor, even with coverart in the browsing.
The only major drawack is that you cant sort the order in which the Albums are being sorted. It is strictly Alphabetical. My wish is to be able to choose sorting between Alphabetical/ Recently Added/ Recently played. But according to the programmer, the ROON API doesnt support this function, which is a pity. So if anyone at the ROON team is reading this, that is on the wishlist.