Roon

This page is about the music software roon

My Debian based Roon Server

Operation System

Debian Bullseye netinst

Advanced

/etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# systemd generates mount units based on this file, see systemd.mount(5).
# Please run 'systemctl daemon-reload' after making changes here.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=0f26d3ed-dfaf-41d8-b814-26f1fbeb1a29 /                             ext4    errors=remount-ro       0       1
# /mnt/external/roon-backups was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=e00cd351-08fe-4094-9e8d-9f8c68ac5da4 /mnt/external/roon-backups    ext4    defaults                0       2
# /mnt/external/work was on /dev/sdc1 after installation
UUID=5d27fa62-e5c2-450f-b8cd-4b3d5ddd810b /mnt/external/work            ext4    defaults                0       2
# /mnt/internal/music was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=bcfec288-aa6d-4c68-86cf-bc85203df7e6 /mnt/internal/music           ext4    defaults                0       2
# swap was on /dev/nvme0n1p5 during installation
UUID=df58f885-93af-4715-917c-9c9754499d5a none                          swap    sw                      0       0

Allow root login

  1. sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  2. PasswordAuthentication yes
  3. PermitRootLogin yes
  4. sudo service ssh restart
  5. sudo passwd root

Roon server

  1. sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ffmpeg cifs-utils curl
  2. wget http://download.roonlabs.com/builds/roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh
  3. chmod +x roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh
  4. sudo ./roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh
  5. rm roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh

Audio tuning

  1. sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y linux-image-rt-amd64
  2. sudo nano /etc/security/limits.conf 
    @audio - rtprio 99
#@audio - memlock unlimited # ToDo: This may be why the memory was always full.
@audio - nice -10
  3. sudo reboot
  4. uname -r # Check which kernel is running
  5. sudo apt remove linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64

Docker

For Home Assistant and poss. roon-extension-manager.

  1. sudo apt install -y docker.io
  2. sudo usermod -aG docker user # Add our linux user to the Docker group
  3. `docker –version # Check if Docker is running

Home Assistant

See here.

Beets

See here.

Homebridge

Installation

docker run --net=host --name=homebridge -v $(pwd)/homebridge:/homebridge oznu/homebridge:ubuntu

Start script

/etc/systemd/system/homebridge.service:

[Unit]
Description=Homebridge

[Service]
ExecStart=docker start homebridge

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Songkong Remote

Start script

/etc/systemd/system/songkong-remote.service:

[Unit]
Description=Songkong Remote
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/home/flori/songkong/
ExecStart=/bin/bash songkongremote.sh
User=flori

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Backups (Music Files)

Installation

Commands

Remote (Dropbox)

Local

Web-GUI

https://github.com/rclone/rclone

Cockpit

Applications

  1. wget https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-navigator/releases/download/v0.5.5/cockpit-navigator_0.5.5-2focal_all.deb
  2. sudo apt install ./cockpit-navigator_0.5.5-2focal_all.deb