Hello Roon Community!
I am about to build a second hi-fi system, for another house in the countryside. Distance from city house where my main Hi-Fi and Roon server are located, is about 150km, and in the second house I am not sure there will be a permanent DSL Connection.
That said, is it possible to use the very same Roon core server for both installations? How then?
Or would I be obliged to have a second license?
ps.: I forgot to mention: Roon Core server runs on a i7 16GB Big Sur Mac Mini, while music files are stored on an attached HDD via Firewire, just aside of the Mac.
You could buy a second license.
You could take a snapshot of your roon core, put it on usb and take it with to your country place. Import it and go.
Either way I’m unsure how you will keep your music archive in sync.
Portable drive maybe?
Yes! If you only have one Roon license, you can simply log in to Roon at any location, and Roon will prompt you to unauthorize the previously active installation. However, you can’t run Roon in two locations at the same time with only one license.
If you would like to run Roon in two (or more) locations concurrently, you will need to purchase an additional license(s) so you can run a new Roon core in another location.
I use two NUCs running ROCK - one at home and one at our holiday apartment. It all works very well indeed, deauthorising whichever core I’m not using.
@Valter_S You could simply open a VPN tunnel into your home network. So, your 2nd location would be “part” of your local home intranet.
Advantage: no need for a second Roon, but a prerequisite is: you should be an it-expert as misconfiguration on VPN might lead into serious security threats…
I would not trust ARC. It opens a firewall “hole” we cannot really control.
A VPN allows to create a secured and trusted connection having full control over the traffic.
And you can be sure u have the full Roon functionality…
almost an oxymoron