Digital input selector, roon ready?

[win]

Hello ASR

I am making some adjustments to my system, notably going multi-channel Dirac with the minidsp drc88d.

This has rendered my existing minidsp SHD studio as a very expensive digital input selector. I like that it works with Roon. I also like that it can select various digital inputs... I use optical from my TV, I use SPDIF from my parks puffin phono preamp, and of course I use ethernet for Roon. I never use the airplay or bluetooth for it, not that I'm opposed to having it. I also don't use its volume control since I prefer the analog volume control of my Freya. And now, finally, I don't use its Dirac functionality.

Is there something out there that would allow simple digital input selection, that is roon compatible, preferably with an AES/EBU output?

Worse case scenario, I can keep it in my system, but it would be nice to use it elsewhere and substitute it with something smaller/cheaper.

 

[Timcognito]

Maybe a used Bluesound Node 2i it has analog in also but no AES/EBU. I use Roon's DSP in my main set up. The Bluesound dashboard GUI auto selects the source including internet radio presets.

 

[win]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm flexible on the digital output. Not so flexible on it needing to be Ethernet/Roon ready, and 2x other inputs. Preferably 1 spdif and 1 optical. Seems crazy that this isn't a readily produced product!

 

[win]

Looks like there is a digital in/out hat you can get for the raspberry pi. It has 2x optical/coax spdif. Next question would be if I could put something like ropieee on it while still maintaining the ability to pass through a selectable opt or coax digital input... might have to do something like 'DietPi' and configure a roon bridge and some way to control the digital inputs. Could be a fun project but could also be tedious and I'm not finding a ton of documentation around my use case.

Also looks like Volumio could do it all and control the add'l inputs but I don't want to pay $80 a year for the privilege, as it's only on the premium tier.

 

[win]

Ended up going with a standalone raspberry pi ropieee installation for roon, outputting to toslink optical. Will have to add this, and the other two inputs to an off the shelf switcher. Not very elegant, but seemed like most straightforward solution.