Roon server will not connect to my iPad

[Antonio_Jones]

Need help connecting iPad to my Linux system, it’s just stuck on connecting

Any help would be appreciated if not I guess I’ll have to abandon Roon sadly

[Glimmer]

Are they both on the same subnet? This would be my starting point, second would be, have I given my iPad the correct permissions?

[Antonio_Jones]

Yeah they are both on the same sub net

The first 6 numbers are the same

[Antonio_Jones]

And yeah the iPad is allowed local connection if that’s what you mean

[AceRimmer (Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!)]

the first 9 numbers need to be the same to be on the same subnet.

[Antonio_Jones]

The ip address for both devices are different

192.168.0.48
192.168.0.32

They both have the same subnet mask

255.255.255.0

[Carl]

@Antonio_Jones

And yeah the iPad is allowed local connection if that’s what you mean

Is the Roon app on the iPad allowed network access?

Settings → Apps → Roon

Do you have a firewall running on your Linux system?

See …

Installing Roon on Linux

and …

Android Roon Remote looses connection to Core (daily)

@Noris, it’s been three days since the last Linux Roon core restart, and the Android remotes / endpoints are continuing to connect fine. The Roon documentation currently does not treat IGMP and Broadcast as something that needs to be addressed in the local firewall configuration, only that it’s possibly an issue on the switch. At this point, IGMP snooping is ON on my switch, and I don’t think it is relevant on or off. The point is that the Linux firewall natively blocks IGMP and broadcast (ri…

[Antonio_Jones]

Yeah I have seen that post and I added the rules mentioned with sudo, I have allowed the ports Roon uses to be open in my firewall as wel, maybe I done something wrong but hear are some screen shots

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

I would first deactivate the firewall and check if Roon works this way, else it’s easy to start chasing ghosts

[Antonio_Jones]

It connected straight away [after I disabled the firewall] so obviously it’s my firewall I just got no clue what is wrong with it.

[connor]

Hi @Antonio_Jones,

Roon relies on dynamic port negotiation for its suite of network-based protocols. This covers a wide and shifting range of ports. Although the rules in your screenshot capture most multicast traffic for Roon, it’s exceedingly difficult to create static port safelists for each service. When possible, we recommend just safelisting RoonServer/RAATServer/RoonAppliance if you have application-level security.

If you can’t create an inbound rule at the application level, the heavy-handed solution would be to safelist all LAN traffic via sudo udf allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx to any or similar.

Please let us know if this helps.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Antonio_Jones

It connected straight away so obviously

Well the thread started with

@Antonio_Jones

Need help connecting iPad to my Linux system, it’s just stuck on connecting

[Antonio_Jones]

Oh sorry I wasn’t trying to be sarcastic or anything I was just saying it’s obvious to me now that it’s the firewall

[Antonio_Jones]

I have got it to work now by doing this

sudo ufw allow in on wlan1 to any proto udp from 224.0.0.0/4
sudo ufw allow in on wlan1 to any proto udp from 192.168.0.0/24
sudo ufw allow in on wlan1 to any proto udp port 5353

Although I’m not sure exactly if it’s safe to do so haha but at least it’s working

Thanks for the help hopefully I’ll be good now

[alex_h (Alex)]

Good day @Antonio_Jones !

Thanks for confirming.

Feel free to come back if anything does not work.

Have a nice day!

Regards.