Hello All.
I have been using Roon for several years now and been listening to music at home. I would like to have Roon available though in my summer house and was considering three alternatives:
Have a site to site VPN between the two locations. From reading through the forum I understand that this might be quite challenging and is unsupported by Roon. In such case Roon core as well as speakers need to be discoverable in two different networks.
The other more expensive option is to buy a second NAS (currently Roon is running on QNAP NAS), install Roon on the second NAS and share the same music folder on the first NAS via VPN (so minimal storage capacity on the second NAS). Not sure if Roon makes any changes on the music folder thought, which would lead to a lot of issues in both Roon instances
Third and least preferred alternative is have the second NAS replicate the whole music folder locally and run Roon locally. Same consideration remains is Roon makes any changes in the music folder.
Is there anyone out there able to provide some guidance and/or advice?
Use a ROCK/NUC as your Core, and keep the NAS in your main home for just music storage. You could have up to 8TB internal storage in the “H” NUC models, and take the NUC with a subset of your local music to your summer house.
Thank you @Geoff_Coupe. I could find any minimum specs for a NUC device on Roon’s page. Can you please help me there?
Also, know of any online shops one can order a NUC?
Great thanks both! I suppose Roon will not make any changes in the music file folders, correct? All changes will all be stored in the local Roon database?
Roon, in any circumstance, never writes to your files and leaves them untouched. All edits done in Roon are done in Roon’s database, not, the file’s metadata. The only exception, is that if you tell Roon to remove a local file from the database, it will delete the actual file from the hard drive as well. So don’t do that.
