What's coming in Roon OS 2.0 (not Roon 2.0, but Roon OS 2.0)?

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

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interface with a UPS to automatically shutdown

something like apcupsd would work for me.

[Kyle_Fieleke (atxkyle)]

music streaming is a real-time (time-dependent) process. latency is a key metric.

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

Triple yes yes yes yes.

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

Live streaming is real-time. Music streaming is a well-understood non-real-time process, implemented by dozens of apps everywhere. Latency is an issue, to be sure, but not an insurmountable one. Not clear it’s a “key metric”.

[Kyle_Fieleke (atxkyle)]

Not looking for a debate, and I realize the DAC should use buffering so theoretically latency of the server/streamer shouldn’t matter. However, in my listening tests with my Chord DAVE the lower the streamer latency, the better the sound. Many others have found the same. Do wish I had a clear understanding of the mechanism.

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

Sure. Much clearer when you cite your experience with a particular DAC/amp combo, rather than stating it as an axiomatic certainty. I see there is some controversy over whether the DAVE is well-designed; perhaps it’s just the box that’s the issue.

[Kyle_Fieleke (atxkyle)]

ASR / Amir, lol

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

I know a bunch of folks (@Chris_Camphuisen @ipeverywhere @ogdens_sliced) have already asked for it and discussed it above, but I’m new to the whole rsync thing. Because of my particular situation - NAS in Home A, Rocks in Home A and Home B, OpenVPN site-to-site between Home A and Home B, using rsync to mirror full music directory from NAS master to USB-connected storage on ROCKs in both Home A and Home B. Having a mounted deep-linked directory from Home A ROCK on NAS in Home A is fine. But when I’m rsyncing across a tunnel, I’ll take every bit of efficiency and stability I can get, and having a mounted deep-linked directory from Home B ROCK USB storage on NAS in Home A always seems a bit fragile and possibly inefficient.

Here’s the feature request I could find… I’m the only vote currently!

Add rsync daemon to Nucleus/ROCK

While you can obviously copy to the Nucleus/ROCK internal storage folder using a network share, it would be far more efficient (and cleaner) to have an rsync daemon running on the Nucleus that you could connect to “directly”, and that was already configured to point to the internal storage. That is, something like: rsync -avz --delete /Volumes/Local\ Music\ Folder guest@nucleusplus:/InternalStorage/ This would ensure intelligent processing of updates and new copies given the server on the far…

[hashkey]

I came across this post again when I was looking into HDMI CEC on Roon. Obviously some of the big items on the list are already done but will there:

A) ever be a Roon OS 2.0?
B) ever be an implementation of CEC on Roon- OS?

[Richard_Shepherd]

Interested why you have formed this opinion? A NUC is just a computer. A Sonos is just a computer. A Marantz is just a computer. So is a Naim. Everything is just a computer. As long as it is mechanically silent then it is no different or inferior as an audio component. The bitstream from its HDMI port or a USB DAC is not going to be “contaminated” by any other part of it. If it can send an uncontaminated bitstream to your end device over the network as a server it can send one out of a physical port also.

[Richard_Shepherd]

For me Roon OS 2.0

Implement a frame buffer for HDMI on Nucleus and NUC. For now just a Roon logo in 720p with IP details would be better than the text screen which just doesn’t look very “pro” for a £1000+ device. Even my Sonos Beam outputs a pretty picture. In time it could be used for Now Playing or status page or whatever. Personally I vote for Now Playing.

HDMI-CEC volume control would be very nice but I appreciate only a few hardware variants support it.

Sandboxed extensions installable on the Nucleus/ROCK without having to use another computer to run them. Presumably done in such a way (virtual machine - Docker etc) that a crashing extension won’t bring down the core OS.