rooUPnP: Finally a Roon Extension for UPnP Streamers

rooExtend v1.3.1 is out!

There are changes in rooUPnP ONLY which is now at v1.0.1. Users of rooDial don’t need to upgrade.

There is one major change regarding license handling: You don’t have to revoke the license any more before flashing an update to the SD-Card. Revoking is necessary only if you change your Raspberry Pi.

You can download from here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c72vVpuuVlIWJpB8flVAZlHXmW2KNd1k?usp=sharing

All info about rooExtend can be found here: https://rooExtend.com

Here the changes regarding rooUPnP:

All your UPnP devices are now listed in the Squeezebox settings (Setting->Audio) with the name of the UPnP device followed by it’s unique UUID.

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The UPnP devices can be enabled and disabled here. If enabled a given name can be entered that shows up in Roon in the Zone setting.

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In the rooUPnP status line (Settings->Extensions->rooUPnP) only the given names of the enabled devices are displayed.

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In the settings dialog of rooUPnP also these given names will be displayed. All is in sync now.

There is a new UPnP Audioformat “Transparent” that directly passes data from Roon to your UPnP device without any modification by rooUPnP. In the device setup of your UPnP device (Settings->Audio) you can decide if Roon sends FLAC or PCM Data (Switch “Use Flac Compression”).

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In all other UPnP Audioformat options, data sent by Roon (either FLAC or PCM) will be decoded and re-encoded to the selected format inside rooUPnP. Despite using MP3 this will be done in a bit perfect way.

Transparent also might be able to transport DSD via DoP to UPnP devices supporting it. This feature is experimental and not yet not yet tested. To use it disable the “Use FLAC compression” switch in the device setup. Please report your findings :slight_smile:

Hope you enjoy
Best DrCWO

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