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Hi

I know it’s my fault but I can’t find the answer …

I have three instances of Roon running on three different Macs on the same network.

One has the audio files on a Thunderbolt attached disk.

The second has the DAC attached via USB and I have connected it to the library on the first.

I want to use the third to control playback on the second.

But when I look at the settings on the second it shows the DAC as private
and clearly I cannot see it on the third.
Also I don’t see a tab in the settings of the second for accepting connections from remotes.

Please could someone tell me what to set where …?

MANY THANKS! Mike

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You have to wait for the RoonSpeakers app.

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Hmmm …
… I’m sure that when I installed the first release of Roon I was able to do this.
So this functionality was removed in later releases …?

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No, I’m pretty sure you couldn’t. You could control the output of the second from the second only.

  • All remotes can control all the zones coming out of the server, be they USB or Meridian LAN endpoints etc.
  • All zones coming from remote instances of Roon are “private zones” not visible except from that installation.

This will only change once RoonSpeakers is released. I believe that’ll be along in a few months.

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What you can do on Macs is Screen Share, and this allows you to control the second ‘remote’ Mac. Almost as slick, but it is basically a remote desktop connection, so some stuttering or lag could be expected.

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Hi

Thanks, and yes that’s the work around that I’ve been using but as you point out it’s not very smooth
and doesn’t look ‘cool’ when I show off Roon to my family & friends :frowning:

I must have mis-remembered being able to remote control the remote in the first release …

Mike

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Mike, can you move the Roon core to the machine you want to control remotely?
i.e. run RoonServer on that one

I think you can control a zone attached to the Roonserver by remote. So, until RoonSpeakers is released this might work for you.

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Hi Nick, Sadly not. I’ll continue to ‘limp along’ with the screen sharing ‘solution’ until RoonSpeakers is released. Mike