I’ve got rooDial running and rooWatch working well. Everything on rooWatch seems to work except Siri. No matter what I ask for, the watch tells me it wasn’t able to find it in my Apple Music Library. It is not searching my Roon library nor Tidal. I’ve gone into watch settings - Siri - Use with Siri and enabled rooWatch. I initially installed it from my iPhone. After reading the instructions more carefully uninstalled it and reinstalled it directly from the Apple Watch. Siri still ignores my search requests. With rooWatch running, I speak the simple request “Play”, and my iPhone starts playing something. Taping the watch works just fine to play music in the selected zone.
For Siri in rooWatch go to Settings on the Apple Watch, Siri → “Use with Siri” and turn on to rooWatch switch. You should now be able to activate Siri using “Hey Siri” or by long-pressing the digital crown.
A list of possible command sequences is listed in the rooExtend manual.
Very happy customer here with rooWatch and rooDial successfully installed. Both working well. Very well thought out. Thank you for a fine product well worth the money. rooWatch in itself justifies the purchase of an Apple Watch.
I’m not sure if you have any upgrades planned for rooWatch, but I would like to suggest adding it to the lists of apps you can start using the Apple Watch Ultra’s action button.
how setup that siri will play on roon ?
when i push on button - and say play command
i get "contiune on your iphone "
and something get "error bit . try later
thank
I can only repeat:
For Siri in rooWatch go to Settings on the Apple Watch, Siri → “Use with Siri” and turn on to rooWatch switch. Reboot the watch.
You should now be able to activate Siri using “Hey Siri” or by long-pressing the digital crown.
A list of possible command sequences is listed in the rooExtend manual.
Thanks - all of a sudden that looks very interesting I have lots of unused raspberry pis sitting around. I would be great if you get integrate this with Home automation systems like Homey somehow - maybe even install roonextend on a homey??
No integration in Homey yet but I plan to add the configuration of http requests so actions can be triggered by rooExtend. But you have to use the SD-Card image provided.
DrCWO did a great job with RooMax and the WEB-hooks option works great. Now with a press of the button on the QuickKeys controller I can start a Flow through a webhook on the Homey. As flows are so powerfull on Homey I can do anything I like with my home automation devices through RooMax. Currently I switch my source input on my Denon HEOS speaker with it for example. I can also switch lights or control my TV with Roomax and the quickkeys controller for example. this ofcourse next to be able to fully control roon and my zones playing. Great solution. Highly recommend the RooMax product with the quickkeys controller.
I have bought a lifetime license this week, installed it on my Apple Watch Ultra 2 and it works as expected. It was a bit expensive, but I am hoping for future improvements.
Some feedback I would like to share:
I would prefer to have the opportunity to test the app for a shorter time, like a month license, which should be cheaper than the one year version for 18USD. Its purpose would be to test the product only, so that I could go with an expensive version at my discretion later.
There is something that keeps the application hanging into “Lost connection to 10.20.30.39… Trying to reconnect… Please check the server address and network.”
I don’t know what causes this timeout. I do not wear my Apple Watch in Always On mode for the display, and therefore the app should jump directly in the connected mode, instead of what I see on the 2nd and 3rd point.
They are three logos while the app stays in the “Connecting…” mode:
This is a bit overbranding. The easier would be to use only one logo, in the middle eventually, and that’s it.
Just a personal choice, I would have the logo showing rooWatch, instead of ROOWATCH.
My observations are related to RooWatch 1.70 on watchOS 11.0. At this moment, my challenge is to solve the issue with the timeout on my Apple Watch Ultra 2, which requires each time connection to the rooExtend server running on a RPi4.
I have lots of unused raspberry pis sitting around. I would be great if you get integrate this with Home automation systems like Homey somehow - maybe even install roonextend on a homey??