i tried to explain problems with automatically determining ip and port of roonserver for arc.
as a solution i was presented using another service (tailscale), which for me isn’t a solution, but another problem. i don’t want to use another service, to solve a problem whicht isn’t a real problem.
All i need, is to tell arc, where to go for my roon-server. so i’d like to suggest, a manual configuration option, for peolpe who are used to work like that.
As far as undertstand the mechanism, either arc has to be told, where to look in local network, accessing roon, or the ip and port are saved in my account.
both would be easily possible, using an manual configuration for arc. so why do i need to use this script, which clearly doesn’t get, what is going on?
By default Roon ARC attempts to configure automatically using UPnP. However, you can manually set the port (the external IP address is often dynamically assigned by the ISP, but in single NAT this isn’t an issue.)
Manually setting the (external) IP address is pointless since Roon (i) already knows the subnet of your server, and (ii) the external* IP address.
*What Roon cannot do, other than using UPnP, is setup port forwarding “manually” or traverse multiple subnets, i.e., double-NAT. If automatic config fails, it is the home network, not Roon, that needs attention. By default, routers reject all traffic.
Likewise, port forwarding cannot work when the ISP uses CGNAT. This is why Tailscale is a valid solution in this scenario, or when a VPN is preferable to port forwarding.
Unfortunately, your suggestion has no legs, and isn’t viable.
But every time i had some reconfiguring, changing this or that, geting new phones or internet/mobile provider i started your script and it din’t get it right. After that it seems to depend on luck, how long it will take to work. This time it just took way to long and i started contacting you.
My provider doesn’t use cgnat or dslite (which i specifically had switched off) and if so, i would have to use another provider or tariff.
UPNP was never used here and never will be, because it is up to me, who or hwat communicates with whom or what thorugh my firewall and i never had a single issue working with firewalls, presenting my used services to the internet over the years
roon seems to be the first one, telling me, i can’t determine ip/FQDN and port manually? I don’t understand that.
If it is some restriction in your software or maybe even policy, then tell me, but please stop telling me, there is something wrong with my network,because there isn’t. only trhing is, i will never provide upnp to anything. and if you ask me, noone should these days in which anything in your network can be used to spy on you.
No, and it shouldn’t be necessary to trawl though another thread to understand an entry in Feature Suggestions.
Furthermore, I do not represent Roon and am a community member just like you. I made no reference to your network in my post.
And finally, a FQDN is not something associated with home broadband, so I fail to see the relevance. For ARC to work successfully, it needs (i) your public IP address (which you don’t need to specify), and (ii) a route to your server via a port forwarding rule. The latter can be done via UPnP or manual intervention.
Since your network is atypical and not representative of home networks it is, as Roon states in their reply to you, not a supported configuration.