There's a post on the Roon Labs Community about a RoonReady Release Candidate SD card image for Raspberry Pi. Any thoughts about creating a similar image for HifiBerry cards? I'd be happy to test it.
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HiFiBerry team Official comment Here is our Roon image:
https://www.hifiberry.com/2016/06/roon-image-for-beta-testers/
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HiFiBerry team We will look into it. However, this can take some time.
Best regards
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Geoff Coupe I'd be very interested in a RoonReady HiFi Berry Digi+ - I think it should allow me to connect my Denon AVR into Roon.
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Andrew Harman Sure would be great if HifiBerry could do the same. I'm sure there would be tons of demand for it...
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HiFiBerry team Hi,
we will look into Roon. However, there is a very simple method to integrate a HiFiBerry board into a Roon installation - you only have to use PiCorePlayer (I guess Max2Play) will also work.
Check out this guide from Hanz Beekhuyzen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l8W71vrBh8&feature=youtu.beBest regards,
Daniel -
Kjartan Bergsson Inspired by Hanz, Im using raspberry pi 2/digi+ with piCorePlayer as a Roon endpoint. It works very well and sound quality is much better than I dared to expect. My next project will probably be a raspberry with hifiberry dac, also using piCorePlayer, for another room in my house. These are great products at humane prices.
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Geoff Coupe Roon Labs has now released Roon 1.2, which includes full RoonReady support. Looking forward to being able to swap out the PiCorePlayer software on my RPi2 + HiFiBerry Digi+ for a proper RoonReady environment. Hope that you guys are working on it...
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HiFiBerry team Hi Geoff,
what additional features compared to PiCorePlayer do you expect?
Best regards,
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Geoff Coupe The ability to group zones together to play the same music simultaneously in the grouped zones, for one thing. I can't include a Squeezebox endpoint in a Roon Group. It's an individual endpoint that can't be grouped with other zones.
I think having a certified RoonReady endpoint would also give me other advantages, such as remote volume control, and possibly support of top-end audiophile formats, but these I need to investigate further.
It appears from a comment in the Roon Community forum that there is RoonBridge software available for this combo, so I'll try it out.
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Geoff Coupe I used the HiFiBerry installer to install Raspbian on my SD card, and then installed the RoonBridge software from Roon Labs as instructed here: http://kb.roonlabs.com/LinuxInstall
It is now a Roon networked device. It recognises the Digi+ and plays back up to 192 kHz files. It works well.
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Johan Nimmersjö I used Raspbian Lite for an RPI 2 with Dac+ Pro, also works well.
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Roger Corman I easily got the Roon endpoint running on a Pi 3 and Dac+ Pro. It's so good that I made two of them, and am ordering parts for more. I want them in every room. Note that the Pi really needs to be connected via ethernet as there is a lot of uncompressed audio streaming to it--it doesn't seem like there is much buffering going on. I haven't been satisfied trying it with wifi.
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Andrew Harman Roger, if you have a 802.11ac router, I've had great success using an Edimax EW-7811UAC 11AC Dualband USB Adapter with my RPi2. I get 433Mbps (max USB2.0 speed), which is plenty of throughput for high-res files with no dropouts. It's also nice because it comes with a USB extension cable that moves the device and antenna away from the Pi.
Here's how to install the drivers for Raspbian:
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/80256631/install-wifi.tar.gz
gunzip install-wifi.tar.gz
tar xvf install-wifi.tar install-wifi
./install-wifi 8812auI use my RPi2 as a Roon Labs RAAT endpoint. With this wifi dongle and a Digi+ modded to direct connect an external 5V linear power supply it's a pretty ideal streaming solution.
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Roger Corman Thanks Andrew I'll look into that. I do have an ac router.
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