Synology: is Roon running with DSM 7.3

[Flo01 (Flo)]

Hi everyone,
DSM 7.3 is now available for various Synology NAS devices.
Does Roon still run smoothly?

Thanks,
Flo

[patrick_mccarthy]

Does you Synology have the CONTAINER app available [I know not all of them support that feature]? Have you thought of making it a docker image instead, this way, you remove any compatibility issues…

[DDPS]

That would make it unsupported vs. the RoonOnNAS package, which is supported.

I haven’t upgraded yet, but I don’t see any reason why the current RoonOnNAS package should stop working.

[patrick_mccarthy]

Totally agree with you - with the following exception: Have you ever actually used “support” here? there are tickets open since before the dawn of man.

Probably have to go to the roononnas.org site and ask when they plan to confirm 7.3x…I do believe there is a DSM on DSM feature I read a while back (virual dsm you can run) - not sure that is worth the hassle.

of course, you could upgrade to 7.3 and if roononnas fails, temporarily run a docker image while waiting on Chris and team to patch…

fun times..good luck.

[DDPS]

There are no major architectural differences between 7.2 and 7.3 (same for 7.1 to 7.2, etc.). @crieke only needs to make changes for major revsions, like 6.x to 7.x.

[Allman77]

It does on my 723+, no changes vs 7.2.
Cheers

[DigitalFrog (Ralph Lemarechal)]

Has anyone been successful with a Fresh 7.3 install ? fails for me with invalid package. (tried legacy and the others)

[BlackJack]

Sounds like “incompatible architecture”. Please note that Roon Server runs only on x86 and compatible processors and not on ARM (or MIPS).

[DigitalFrog (Ralph Lemarechal)]

yep - I had it running for years, worked after the upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3.
Then for some reason (empty logs) it would not, deleted the package, tried to reinstall …

Invalid file format…

[BlackJack]

Please check your NAS for malware. If this is no it, consider frequenting Synology support resources.

[DigitalFrog (Ralph Lemarechal)]

Right - thanks.

Hopefully someone will reply to my question

[Oldescratch (Scott)]

Any luck there? I’ve got the same issue.

[DDPS]

Process seems to work OK for me on DSM 7.3 at least up to this point:

[Scott_Crouch]

No problems getting that far. Once I have selected the directories and go to install it just says ‘installation failed’. Tried online and manual install too.

[DDPS]

At what point did you get the “Invalid file format…” message ?

[Oldescratch (Scott)]

[Steven_Hansen]

Thanks @crieke for all you do to support us folks using a NAS for Roon!

[gTunes]

@Steven_Hansen - @crieke hasn’t posted in about 2 1/2 years and my recollection is that he essentially handed maintenance of the NAS packages to the Roon team.

For those of you having issues with the Synology package - many of us have been running in Docker on Synology and other platforms for years with exceptional results. I understand @DDPS’ concerns around running in an “unsupported” mode but my take is that the amount of support for running in Docker far exceeds the support for the NAS packages.

I wrote a walkthrough in 2021 for getting Roon running on Synology in Docker. It’s here:

Walkthrough : Roon in a Docker container on Synology DSM 7

Hi, folks. Synology recently released a DSM upgrade which introduced compatibility problems with the Roon package a number of community members, including me, run. I’m using this opportunity to switch to running Roon in a Docker container. I put together this walkthrough to hopefully help anyone else considering going down the same path. This walkthrough utilizes the container image produced by @Steef_de_Bruijn, who I want to thank for his work. That work made this possible, and it’s sincerely…

I believe it is still at least mostly accurate. It’s worth a try if you can’t get the package working. You can always switch back to the package in the future if it’s updated.