I just replaced my Denon AVR with an Arcam AVR-550 and thus needed a new integration for volume control. If you are already running the Roon Extension Manager, the Arcam extension will be available after updating to the latest repository.
If you want to run the extension without using the extension manager, it’s available in GitHub.
Please keep in mind that I didn’t have much time to perform any long-term testing yet 
Too bad you did not buy an NAD AVR … 
Yeah. I’m hoping someone makes a NAD volume control. It’s just a bunch of serial commands over the network, but I don’t have the bandwidth to code it myself.
Looking at the protocol, it should be pretty straightforward to adopt the Arcam extension to NAD. Changes would be pretty much limit to arcam_client.js, which implements the actual communication protocol.
Hmm. I’ll try and give this a shot. Can I hit you up for advice, if I need it?
Sure. I’ll be happy to help if I can.
This looks great: thanks for putting the effort in!
I followed the install steps and Roon now tells me that the extension is connected to my AVR850. The external volume control options for my zones remain grayed out however. Any idea what I might be missing?
Did you go to the setup for you zone to associate the receiver with that zone?
Associate you receiver with your zone you must. Dear Yoda, please Guide me 
The extension shows connected, the external volume control setting in the zone I want to use is grayed out. How do I associate the receiver with a
zone? Is this in Settings -> Audio -> Device, or in Settings -> Setup -> Configure?
The latter keeps searching for devices, but never returns.
I am not in front of Roon right now, but if there is a menu for the zone itself. I believe you can get there by clicking on the zone (bottom right). There you can set up a volume control extension for the zone.
Let me know if you don’t find it and I’ll try to give better instructions over the weekend.
The setting is indeed in Settings -> Audio -> Device.
Initially the option remained grayed out. Not sure if there is a causal link, but once I had changed the IP address of the Arcam to the wrong address, the option became available. I could then correct the IP address and things started working.
Hello Boris, I found your Roon driver for Neeo on Github. How do I determine the correct settings in settings.json? If I just copy your example, startup fails with “Error: Cannot read property ‘reduce’ of undefined”.
Yeah, I got a little bit stuck with the Neeo extension and they did work on the SDK quite a lot. Not sure if that can easily be made to work at the moment. Sorry.
That’s a real pity! I wrote some simple drivers for my devices, but your Roon driver is definitely more complicated.
Might be something I’ll have another look at during winter.
Excuse the linux newby simple question.
I have Roon core running on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. I installed it using ssh from my MacBook following the manual installation instructions on the git hub page and have the extension running happily in Roon. but my question is how do I make the extension run continuously as it stops as soon I close the terminal window and so disappears from Roon.
Thanks
Most extensions are run in the extension manager in roon under settings. I dont use this extension so maybe others will chime in here if this is not the case for this particular extension
As mentioned by @wizardofoz you can use the extension manager to run roon extensions. There are a few other threads that describe running it. Personally, I would suggest running it inside docker.
The Arcam extension is available there, so you just need to follow the instructions.
thanks @Boris_Pruessmann if that’s your suggestion I will look into it after the break.
Thanks a lot @Boris_Pruessmann for this extension. I realise we now have the year 2025 and the devices are a bit dated, but I saw that you recently pushed an update on Github so I thought I’ll ask: the extension regularly loses connection to my Arcam AVR850 even though IP & HDMI ON are active. I guess an interruption is not necessarily a problem, but the issue is that the extension seems unable to reconnect. I see the error “connection closed reconnecting…”, but it’s never reconnecting unless I manually restart the extension (or reboot Roon server, of course).
I am also seeing this error if power cycle the Arcam. I always need to manually restart the extension when the connection to the Arcam is interrupted.
If the connection is established, the extension works great and as expected. Is there a way to make reconnecting more reliable? Thanks!