@Rugby private messaged me to explain that The Frame TVs come with an external box you can hide away into which you can plug source components. Then you run a single, thin cable from the box to the TV which carries both signal and power. That is a really elegant solution and I wasn’t aware of it. Thanks for the info, @Rugby.
These The Frame TVs seem really nice. Too large for what I want, though. I want something smaller that can sit tabletop.
The smallest is 32" but they also have an easel as an optional accessory, see…
So, it could sit by your desk 
i‘m thinking of moving the frames i already have and put a 32“ the frame on my wall….on top of my hifi rack….in the middle….all other frames around……
connect my apple tv 4k which should be somewhere. then use the roon tv remote app. sound goes to my wiim pro plus….(still waiting for the firmware update for roon ready 
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You folks inspired me so I built the device that I speculated about earlier in this thread.
If you’re interested, here’s what I did.
I’m curious what @Michael_Harris will come up with - if he figures out a comparable or better solution built around a Raspberry Pi, that could easily be swapped in. The Apple remote is a nice part of this. I didn’t realize earlier that controlling zone volume is done with up down presses on the control wheel. It all works really well.
I’m just waiting that my The Frame 32" (2023) model is mounted on the wall…and then I will show up some pictures😀
Nice work 
I have a partly build Android TV with Chromecast, but my son has come home and taken over the Man Cave for the Christmas holidays.
It will only act as a Chromecast display though and will not support volume changes
Looks nice, but does it update when you play vinyl 
Bonus points for the music as well 
when i start vinyl, roon rock starts a request to google…google sends back a request to google nest hub…ah no, wait…shizzle…
In the living room I have a small now playing block stand but I am not allowed to have them on the wall 
In my man cave I have them stacked ready on the wall and at the front of the Kallax units.as well so I can plan ahead 
I’ll do whatever I like
I need now only to figure out, how can I manage the tv, apple tv and wiim incl. roon only with one remote…
for example: i’ll start roon on my iphone, play music, the tv, apple tv goes on and I’ll see the cover art etc
You win.
That looks outstanding. I would so something identical if my primary listening room allowed for it. I don’t think my wife would go for “do you mind if I have the window removed so that I can mount a Roon display?”
You could probably do this with the right Logitech Harmony remote and the Deep Harmony extension. The remotes are discontinued but they’re not hard to find new or used.
I like you. You make me feel better about my situation.
I feel we already push our luck (I know I do).
Any attempt to take over more space in the living room is going to lead to me getting in serious trouble 
too young to die 
My solution to this is to run a Roon display in the Opera browser on my Mac mini M1 (which runs roon server) and cast from there to the Google Nest Hub on my desk. It’s a bit more fiddly to get it up and running, but once you’re got it set up it’s flawless from thereon in. Oh, and I also have an AppleScript that launches Opera and initiates the cast, bound to a function key, so pretty much a one-button press solution.
i don‘t know if Logitech Harmony is a good choice.
What I liked from Harmony was that you could define everything with 1 Button…for example: start tv, then apple tv and…etc etc…
i think that the new remotes are connected also thru network…not so easy to find a solution
I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing.
Some Logitech Harmony remotes do nothing other than emit IR. The versions that have a hub, however, allow you to automate through a combination of IR, bluetooth, and IP. I know you can control an Apple TV with one, but I’m not sure what it can do with which strategy.
The “Deep Harmony” extension (GitHub - Khazul/roon-extension-deep-harmony-release: roon-extension-deep-harmony releases) can be a little tricky to set up but, once you have it running, it causes your Roon zones to appear as devices which can be controlled by a Harmony remote with a hub.
If you were to use the remote pictured below, you can make one of the “zone” buttons at the top do whatever combination of changing device state you want after which the remote’s transport and volume control buttons can do whatever you want for that particular “state”. One of those buttons could turn on your Apple TV and then the buttons would control the Apple TV (or, if you wanted, the buttons could directly control the Roon zone whose content is displayed on the Apple TV).
It’s hard to imagine you couldn’t make it do whatever you want
Just a couple of things.
@Piero_Ballistreri - I dusted off my Harmony Hub + Companion and got it up and running with Deep Harmony. Harmony discovered the Apple TV and is fully capable of controlling it over IP. Works pretty well.
I also use Home Assistant. I did a little bit of automation for the screen. Unlike most modern TVs, the screen I bought doesn’t have the ability to power up and down in response to a source component powering up and down. It does have a setting that allows it to return to its previous power state when power is lost and then restored. I plugged it into a smart plug that I can automate from Home Assistant, where I’m also running the Roon integration. I have an automation that triggers when the relevant Roon zone goes from paused or stopped to playing. When that happens, the Apple TV and the screen power on. When the zone goes back to paused or stopped, the screen turns off after one minute (some minor complexity here to handle the case where the delayed off is canceled if playback starts again). This automation also powers the Apple TV up and down.
This is a bit tricky but if anyone is interested, I can share details.
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