Yesterday, in an attempt to root cause another problem, I swapped the physical location of 2 of the 3 Raspberry Pies that I am using as Endpoints. One (Front Office) had a Douk Audio U2 Pro USB to Coaxial converter, the other (Lounge) a Schiit Bi-Frost USB DAC. These got swapped over. The third (Kitchen) also has a Douk Audio U2 Pro USB to Coaxial converters as output.
ROON now seems to have conflated the 2 Pies (Front Office and Kitchen) with Douk Audio outputs. In Settings > Audio, I can see all 3 Raspberry Pies. For a while, when I changed the output name of one of the Douks, the other changed as well. By going into Device Settings and fiddling with the Identify Device option, I have no managed to get them with 3 different names.
Any ideas how to fix this problem? I’ve already tried turning everything off and restarting, unplugging the USB output devices, turning everything off, turning back on and then replugging the USB outputs and fiddling about with the Identify this device in Device setup.
Update: Without me touching anything, ROON has again gratuitously changed the output name of the Kitchen to be the same as Front Office
I can imagine the ‘same identity’ bug could cause a host of strange issues, so fingers crossed.
FWIW It does only seem to happen when Roon first assigns an ID to the endpoint - although I think I found that that doesn’t mean it was the endpoint that you most recently added that is the issue (I think the incorrectly assigned ID can be an old one).
I’m not absolutely sure, but I suspect that it was caused by moving a RoPiee so that it had the same type of output device as another RoPiee in the system. I realised that the two that were being confused both had HiFi DSD as the output device.
Thanks very much for the help.