Why are some using home WiFi rather than Taiko WiFi? Isn’t part of the idea behind using the Taiko router to be isolated to an audio only network?
Or, (my best guess), I’m misunderstanding networking again…
Some of us access our Extremes from all over the house, depending on the use case. Yes, while listening, one is in the audio space, and it is reasonable to have a device connected to the Taiko wifi to select and control the music to listen.
But there are other times we interact with the Extreme that do not relate to actual listening.
1. Adding music files to the Music folder. I tend to store the primary copy of my music on a NAS. I may be sitting at my wired (to the home network) desktop in my study and initiate a transfer, by VNCing to the Extreme and then copying via File Explorer
2. Once files are added, one needs to scan them on XDMS. So I'll fire up the XDMS client on windows, and initiate a scan. If I switch to Roon via the XDMS control app, then I'll fire up the Roon client on my desktop to verify the new files got correctly added in Roon.
Just this simple scenario requires forwarding rules for:
1. VNC
2. SMB (Windows file sharing)
3. XDMS
4. Roon.
It sounds like the router only comes pre-configured for Roon, not use cases 1-3.
Yes. Although automatic discovery for connecting to XDMS is on the to-do list it does not have top priority, so for now it’s IP only in the same subnet.
I hope I'm not reading too much into this, but does this mean XDMS is being de-emphasized in favor of Roon?
