Can Ropieee do this?
I tried with one drive, and it doesn’t seem available.
Ropieee doesn’t allow me to SSH, so I don’t know how to debug.
How do I debug?
ropieee is an appliance. You are meant to just install it and use it without poking about the insides. It takes care of updates for you and provides simple configuration menus for the most common streaming needs.
If you want to tinker then you may do better to use a standard Roon Bridge on Linux installation, where you are free to install SSH and Samba or anything else.
You could just install Raspberry Pi OS on a pi, and then install Roon Bridge but have you looked at “DietPi” as an alternative? It might better suit what you have in mind.
Is UASP mount + Samba a common use case for Ropieee users?
If it is common = maybe it could be added to Ropieee
(making this post, effectively, a feature request)
If it is an edge case = then yes, folks like me will need a different distro.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I can’t even think why someone would want to do that.
The Roon core server can mount SMB if needed, as a general rule (and especially so in the case of Ropieee) the endpoint should be as lightweight as possible.
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I suspect not, given most people (I believe) use RoPieee to control Roon or stream music, not to act as a music server as such.
What is your use case?
My use case:
Roon Server on a Mac
Music on Mac SDD, backed up to a couple of drives (in an enclosure, NOT a NAS)
Movies backed up to a couple of drives (in an enclosure, NOT a NAS)
RaspberryPi to act in twofold capacity:
1/ Roon endpoint (and Airplay, for guests)
2/ Access the “couple of drives” enclosure over the network for fast backups of music and family sharing of movies
So is your goal that the drive enclosure “behave like a NAS” even though it’s just a UASP enclosure?
That’s definitely out of the realms of standard usage… I’d suggest you look at DietPi:
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Yes, a “like-a-NAS-but-not-a-NAS” enclosure, plugged in non-stop for backups and media sharing.
NAS devices are expensive and tie you into a specific config.
Raspberry helps me avoid that lock-in.
While also being used as Roon endpoint.
I will check out DietPi.
Thank you for responding here!
DietPi is great, I run the x64 version on a micropc for my Roon core (as well as Plex). I don’t use it for any of my endpoints (because these are dedicated use and I use Ropieee).
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