I have roon server setup and it works with my WiiM and Bluesound devices just fine. I have the roon app installed on my windows11 pc and i can configure the system and devices. My windows11 pc has a FiiO K7 attached to USB and is using the ASIO driver from FiiO. It plays to my powered desktop speakers just fine. Why doesn't my PC audio hardware show up as a roon endpoint. I checked the firewall and the roon apps are configured. I even turned the firewall off and the PC still doesn't appear as a networked device.
Hi @Scott_Weiler,
Thanks for writing in to ask us about this issue. I see you mentioned switches in your network setup. Are these managed switches? If those are misconfigured they can cause problems with your server reaching the rest of the network. Can you try bypassing the switches and connecting directly to your router?
Thanks for the reply
I can’t really bypass the switches. My PC is on my main backbone and running 10G on DAC to core switch.
My topology is 10G between PC and network storage devices, 2.5G to access points, and 1G to all other devices. If the network is the reason that the roon server doesn’t find my pc then too bad for roon. The network is the priority here. I am not running some plastic consumer all in one router and cheap unmanaged switch.
My roon server is on a different switch. The other devices that work all are on the same network, some connected ethernet some connected wifi.
Everything seems to point to an issue on the PC.
I can access the roon server from the PC that is the issue and change settings, and control playback on other devices, so my PC is connecting to the roon server. It is just that the PC is not showing up as an end point.
I am using an external DAC on the PC connected to my nearfield speakers. I suspect that is the issue.
The audio device on the PC is shown as FiiO Q series.
It is an expensive DAC I hate to think that I need to use the 10 cent chip on the motherboard to make this work.
I guess I should ask, should the roon server see my PC as an endpoint? The server sees the audio components in the server hardware, ( I am running on a NUC running Debian 12 )
The issue was stupidly simple - network on PC set to “public”. Changed to private - everything worked.
How about an error message???
Also, change troubleshooting tree - should start with network mode not firewall and switch settings.