Running Roon on Windows 10

[CJT80 (Chris)]

Good Morning, I am new to Roon having subscribed to the Black Friday deal of 3 months for $3. I am currenting running Roon on a NUC via Windows 10 as the Server but I am not sure I am doing it correctly.

I have two programs installed one called Roon and the other called Roon Server, however I am not sure which I should be running.

If I run Roon it seems to work fine for a while and the crash (see pic).

I do intend to run Roon as ROCK but I wanted to try it out first.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Mike_O_Neill]

Roon runs the GUI and server Server just the server in the background so run Roon

[CJT80 (Chris)]

Hi @Mike_O_Neill thanks for clarifying this. So I checked the Win10 Taskbar and the Server is running. So I think it’s working. Thank you for that.

Now I have another issue I have an iPhone 17 and I have the Roon iOS app installed, when I load the app it finds my server but just say’s “connecting” and never connects.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Ensure on the iPhone that Roon has network permission and that the phone is on the same network (same subnet IP range on the LAN) as Windows is.

You may also want to ensure on the iPhone that the Private Wi-fi Address setting is Off or Fixed (and not Rotating) for your home WiFi.

Furthermore, ensure that the network type setting is „Private“ (not Public) on Windows for the home LAN.

[CJT80 (Chris)]

@Suedkiez thanks, I’ll have a look into that. Sorry I didn’t reply sooner.

[CJT80 (Chris)]

Good Morning,

I’m sorry I’ve not been back sooner. I have not had a chance to fully look into this, however I decided to purchase a new (to me) NUC as the one running Roon also runs Plex and can only run Windows 10. It’s possible the current NUC is up to date enough to run Roon as a ROCK Server instead. I intend to look to resolve the networking issues 1st before seeing if I can install Roon directly onto the old NUC.

[CJT80 (Chris)]

Good Morning,

Just a quick update, good news, after a lot of investigating why the server wasn’t working and visible on my iPhone last night we have got it working. One issue was ESET blocking Roon and RAAT. There may have been another issue with routing but we’re seeing how it goes for now.

Been enjoying Arc on my iPhone and using Roon with my Eversolo Play