Roon Server shows 'Waiting for Roon Server' on Mac after every restart (ref#US0VRX)

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Hi! What’s not quite right with Roon?

· None of the above quite fits

None of the above quite fits

· None of these quite match

Tell us what's going on

· Roon is working on my devices however on my server screen Roon shows "Waiting for Roon Server....." … this happens on every Server restart (MAC)

I reinstalled Roon…
I have to quit Roon APP and restart and all is fine… again .. I get that screen on my Mac.. but all my endpoits are running roon fine ..

Tell us about your home network

· TPLINK Mesh system BE11000, Server is plugged in direct in Mesh Endpoint

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Hi @Mzn50,

Have you tried clicking on “select a different Roon Server?

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Also …

Since you’re running macOS, the behavior you’re seeing is consistent with the newer, stricter Local Network permission controls in the recent macOS releases.

Please try the following steps:

  1. Open macOS System Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network
  2. Make sure Roon and Roon Server are both enabled
  3. Even if they are already enabled, please toggle them off and back on
  4. Fully quit Roon Server from the macOS menu bar / task bar
  5. Reboot your Mac
  6. After reboot, launch Roon again and check if the devices is avaliable again.

Please report back if the issue persists after these steps, and if needed Roon Support will continue from there.

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Hello Carl and thanks for the response
I did confirm that privacy setting… And all was in order
What I didn’t notice was I had both of the Room server app and Roon app itself both in Launch mode at login… i deleted the roon app and only the Roon Server is in the User Launch… I believe that may have been a conflict?

In any case, I’ve tried it a couple of times and rebooted, and that issue is not showing up so I beleive launching the Roon.app was the culprit .. However, I will keep monitoring…

thanks again,

Matt

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Hi @Mzn50,

Thank you for your post.

If you have both Roon and RoonServer as Login Items in MacOS, it can sometimes cause the GUI (Roon) to launch before the server and get stuck retrying the server connection.

The solution, as you’ve already found, is to only launch the background server on startup and remove the Roon app from Login Items to launch manually at your convenience.

If you’d still prefer that the GUI launch on startup too, you can create a small automation script that launches it a few seconds after the server.

  1. Open Script Editor (in Applications → Utilities).
  2. Paste this script:
delay 15 -- waits 15 seconds
tell application "Roon" to activate
  1. Save it as an Application (File → Export → File Format: Application).
  2. Add this new app to Login Items instead of Roon. Make sure RoonServer is also a Login Item.

Let us know if this helps. Thank you!

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Hi @Mzn50,

We’ve not seen any activity on this thread in a few days and wanted to ping it before it auto-closed due to lack of response. Please let us know if you require further troubleshooting here. If you find this thread has auto-closed, you can reactivate it anytime by submitting a new support request here that references this thread URL. Thank you!

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Hello Connor…having both Roon and RoonServer as Login Items in MacOS was totally the issue i had … removing Roon.app fixed the issue.. and only having roonserver at startup is working well…

thanks for following up..
Matt

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@Mzn50 ,

Thanks for confirming that your issue is solved.

Enjoy your music!