Hi noris,
Thanks a lot for responding so quickly. I’ve tested it in a way that the IP nets of the Ethernet accesses are 192.168.178.something (same as my home network), but that does not work. And that is against my idea anyway: I want to have a cable connection between the Roon ROCK server and the Volumio Rivo bridge completely separated from the (here wifi) connection to the home network.
I think Danny said to do it with different subnets (though he does not endorse the setup):
In the meantime I’ve monitored my network traffic. Even if the Roon Remote shows “192.168.178.106” as IP address, there is not much traffic going to the 106. It’s different if I pull out the Ethernet cable so Roon → Rivo have to connect via home network: then there is a lot “application data” and many other stuff going to the .106, so the Rivo.
Nevertheless I’m sure there are cases where the connection is indeed via home network, as I was able to see in the logs.
So the issue is probably two-fold:
- Does Roon Remote always give the correct IP address of the bridge if more than one is available?
- Can the connection be forced to use Ethernet? It seems to use Ethernet in 99% of the cases, but can somehow the connection via the home network be forbidden (even if that means that the connection breaks should the ethernet connection be interrupted or pulled out)?
Anyway I’m happy that this setup works at all and it does in 99% (maybe 99.9%) of the cases (even if Roon Remote is not reflecting that)!
Thanks a lot!