Installing Roon Server as an app on TrueNAS Scale

Apps and Virtualization
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In the old forum, I found a discussion about installing Roon Server from the steefdebruijn/docker-roonserve Docker image. As a newcomer to TrueNAS and lacking much experience with TrueNAS I was a bit afraid it would be a pain, but it turned out to be quite a straightforward process.

I followed the guide from Techno Tim for creating a custom apps (look for " A Better Way to Run Docker Apps on TrueNAS").

The steps above apply to TrueNAS 25.04. I have a pool called apps on my SSD and data on my HDDs.

  1. Create a new “roon” dataset (I created it on my apps pool), and in Dataset Preset, choose “Apps”.
  2. Create the datasets needed by Roon, with the same Preset:
  • roon-app
  • roon-server
  • roon-backup
  • music
  1. Go to System > Shell and create your docker configuration
  • cd /mnt/[your pool]/roon
  • nano compose.yaml

With the following content:

services:
  docker-roonserver:
    image: steefdebruijn/docker-roonserver:latest
    container_name: roon-server
    hostname: myroonserver
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      TZ: "Europe/Amsterdam"
    volumes:
      - /mnt/apps/roon-app:/app
      - /mnt/apps/roon-data:/data
      - /mnt/data/Music:/music
      - /mnt/data/Roon-Backup:/backup
    restart: always
volumes:
  roon-app:
  roon-data:
  roon-music:
  roon-backups:

I mapped the folders created above to the appropriate folders on my pools.
Change the hostname to a name you’d like to see as the server name.

  1. Go to Apps > Discover Apps > Custom App > (three dots) > Install via YAML
  • give it a name (e.g. “roon-server”)
  • in the Custom Config, paste:
include:
  - /mnt/apps/roon/compose.yaml

Make sure that apps matches your pool name and roon the dataset created in the first step.
This will pull the configuration file specified above.

  1. Click on play button to launch the app.

From now on, you should be able to find your newly created Roon server (myroonserver) when launching a Roon client.

To enable remote access / Roon ARC, make sure to enable traffic between your TrueNAS server and the public on your router, for the following ports:

  • 55000 (Roon ARC discovery)
  • 9003 (Roon server)
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Thank You, Just installed a Roon server on my TrueNas server.

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Work perfectly, thanks

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After a little bit of fiddling with permissions on my music share I got this working fine. However, ARC is not seeing the server. Checking port 55000 from a Windows powershell Test-NetConnection confirms 55000 can connect. Interestingly 9003 fails but the Roon client on the same machine can see the server. Anyone know what else I should check?