Waiting for your Roon server macOS Monterey

Hi @Brad_Painter,

We’ve notified the accounts team to extend your trial - they’ll reach out as soon as the trial extension if confirmed. To prevent being charged in the meantime, I recommend canceling your subscription for now - we’ll reactivate it as soon as the Accounts team sees the message and extends the trial.

What we can tell from the log package is that the IP address received by RoonServer is different than the IP address logged within RoonServer, very likely a result of network address translation on the part of the university’s enterprise network.

The Remote is dropping the connection to RoonServer, despite both being on the same machine. One hypothesis is that authentication requests to Roon’s servers upstream fail due to the enterprise network at the university, severing the connection.

However, the following information will likely reveal more:

  1. Does the Waiting for RoonServer" error screen appear when waking the machine the sleep while Roon is open in a window?

  2. When playback is functioning, do higher-quality files trigger playback errors more? What about the source - do streaming service tracks trigger this more often than local tracks?

  3. Lastly, try refreshing the database completely:

  • Make a Backup of your current RoonServer Database
  • Exit out of RoonServer
  • Navigate to your RoonServer’s Database Location
  • Find the folder that says “RoonServer”
  • Rename the “RoonServer” folder to “RoonServer_old”
  • Reinstall the RoonServer App from our Downloads Page to generate a new RoonServer folder
  • On the Roon Remotes, press “Use another Roon Server” and connect to the new database

We’ll follow up from there. Thank you!

So, I didn’t see your message it time to cancel my trial and was charged. What is the best recourse to get that refunded while we sort this out? I’ve been traveling and haven’t had a chance to take the most recent trouble shooting measures you outlined, but will do so asap.

Please, see our reply via the private message Connor started for us :smiling_face:

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Sorry for the delayed response, but I’ve been traveling and am just now back on the university network. I don’t know if this is helpful, or just adding to confusion, but I’ve been listening to Roon nearly all day with no interruption. I should add today’s uninterrupted listening has occurred without taking the rouble shooting measures Connor outlined in his last post. I’ve listened via streaming and my personal library, and with varied sound quality tracks. I’m hesitant to consider the issue completely resolved, but it has curiously been working fine all day.

Hi @Brad_Painter,

Thanks for the update. Have you by chance updated to a new RoonServer build in the interim?

In any case, other variables behind the curtain on the university network may have changed while you were away. This thread will autoclose after a period, but please create a new post if something comes up.

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