Spinning up ROCK on an old shed

[TJUK]

Hi all,

I’m new to Roon and have had great results installing ROCK on my repurposed (and now fanless) NUC8i7BEH.

It’s got me thinking of getting a couple of family members up-and-running with a cheap NUC off eBay, stick ROCK on it and hide a Raspberry Pi behind their posh looking HiFi kit for streaming.

But I do like a bargain. If I didn’t already have a spare machine ready to go I definitely would have done some testing on some low-end devices.

So the question is this - who has the best ‘shed’? The best low-end, bargain basement ROCK? Who’s salvaged an old Optiplex from a skip and is using it to serve them multi-room streaming? Who’s repurposed Grandma’s old cream desktop for some DSD goodness? Who’s that guy who’s answer to every computer question is ‘Old ThinkPad’ (guilty).

Let the shed posting commence!

[mjw]

@TJUK

The best low-end, bargain basement ROCK? Who’s salvaged an old Optiplex from a skip and is using it to serve them multi-room streaming?

ROCK is designed to run on the NUC … so you may find this thread interesting.

MOCK - Tell us what strange gear you've installed ROCK on!

This discussion needs to be prefaced by the words from the Roon KB: Will ROCK run on my existing hardware? How about this other hardware? We have only tested with the above mentioned NUCs. It may work with other machines, but the drivers needed may not exist there. Try it out and let us know. We can not comment on whether any different hardware will work, as we have not tested it. We will not make any guesses, educated as they might be. If you do manage to get it to run, that’s great, but we…

[TJUK]

Can’t believed I missed that thread, thank you!