When you’re playing through HQPlayer, Roon displays the little “external control” icon when you tap on the volume control (next to MUSE, transfer zone, etc). This never bothered me, it was just extraneous and did nothing.
Until, one day, thanks to the fine @DrCWO I first began to think about controlling the power on/off of my monoblocks and pre-amp with a 12V trigger from my Raspberry Pi4. With his RooContol on RooExtend, I am close to being able to power all these off via 12V trigger. All great, but now when you enable the “external control” for this zone, the link changes to a power button, but when you click it you see two “break link” buttons - one for HQPlayer (that does nothing) and one for the RooControl (amp power). It’s not a huge deal, but is there any way that Roon could not display that unnecessary “break link” for HQPlayer? It seems extraneous, and having chatted with Jussi about it, he has no idea why it’s there - this is entirely on the Roon side.
Anyone know? Is this possible? Does that icon actually do something that I don’t understand? Thanks!
This break link normally came up if an external Roon Extension offers it. In rooExtend rooControl is such a candidate.
Please check the device settings of your playback zone if there is a second External Source Control assigned to it.
This is the only reason I can imagine. It can also be provoked by a Roon Ready device. So best switch off all of them and see if it disappears.
Best DrCWO
EDIT:
read you post in the Beta Testing thread later. So you know where the second Broken Link comes from
Hi-
I’m officially willing to call this a “bug”, though I’m not (yet) going to file a support request. When you set up an HQPlayer zone, it is not through the Settings/Audio menu, but rather through Settings/Setup. Subsequently there is what looks like an “external control” (the little broken link icon). When you go into “device setup”, you can add an external control to this (HQPlayer) zone, but you can’t delete the existing one. So if you add an actual external control to this HQPlayer zone, it doesn’t act like you want it to - its state isn’t persistent, so if you turn it off it’s only off momentarily and then starts back up. This isn’t desired behavior, and I don’t think it’s correct behavior.
Is there any reason that HQPlayer zones display what is presented as an “external control”? Still wondering who @ Roon I should address this to. Guess I could raise a support request because I think it’s probably not desired behavior.
