So roon took it upon themselves to update the QNAP application for NAS, and without warning, it not has minimum requirements that can’t be met by my NAS. So in the blink of an eye, I have no working streaming any more.
So looking to see if anyone has a spare / unused / needing a home NUC5 (or greater) or 5th gen intel CPU (i5-5xxx etc) based HP mini PC (prodesk / 260 G3 3etc)
Need it fairly briskly, so any help appreciated.
Just install the docker container, no?
Can help you with the set it up if you need.
Plenty of sellers on Amazon will deliver tomorrow.
I don’t meet the RAM requirements for docker due to extra overhead.
NUC’s aren’t really a think any more, and modern equivalents are huge money now. Why pay £600 for something I can get used for £100?
Who or where is the source of this?
I’ve yet to come across anything running natively that you can’t run in docker. There isn’t any overhead.
Have you actually tried it? Roon runs like dogshit on low power systems anyway so you may be better off with something else.
The official spec states 4gb and I’m running 3. So didn’t even bother trying it. As I only run one zone with no resembling or DSD, it’s always been ok performance wise.
But sounds like it’s time to move on.
I may just try going DLNA and cut roon out completely
decided to bite the bullet and set up the container.. but alas my TS269L doesn’t support container station or virtualisation station.. so that’s it.. end of the line for this QNAP
I’m amazed you ever got Roon to run in any way shape or form on that so well done 
Used an SSD for primary storage and put 3gb in it… it’s been running roon well for a year
Database runs off another SSD on the esata port.
Other companies do similar to the intel NUC…
That’s just the first I found on Amazon, no specific recommendation
Highly my doubtful that roon ROCk will support this. Hence why I’m looking for older machines
If you’ve been updating dockers and the like, surely you’re confident enough to install Roon on a fresh Linux machine? Rock is for those that can’t do that kind of thing, from what I can see.
Anyway, rather than DLNA I would suggest Lyrion, the updated Squeezebox server. It will play to anything, but has much better control systems than DLNA.
Rock is generally just more stable and creates an “applicance” state. Absolutely no need to maintain a host operating system or waste memory and space running the host for the server software
I much prefer ROCK to running the server app on a Linux OS
sorted for now folks… I ended up buying this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/277955358604
brand new unused HP microserver, and I’ve bought a Xeon 4 core 8 thread CPU to replace the shitty Celeron on board.
I’ll spin up a linux distro and use it to replace my ancient NAS