DietPi

After some research, Roon developers suggested this: "It sounds like the proper folders might not be persistent on the DietPi build. I would make sure that all of these folders are set as persistent and that the creators of the image haven’t set up a Deep Freeze kind of capability on the image....

Indeed, they do offer this possibility, but it seems not to be the right solution in this case. Even it is not explicitly specified, I think that the database shall not be put on the server install folder ! Maybe, changing the roonserver.service file and keeping the default location on var/roon/Roon...

I have checked roon kb and found this, related to roon server database: ‘ Linux Core If you used our "easy installer" scripts, then Roon's database is located in /var/roon/RoonServer If you ran Roon from the .tar.gz package by executing ./start.sh without configuring the ROON_DATAROOT envi...

I think you are right, but I don't know if the automated update process does not preserve the database.
Maybe it is something that we miss here.

I have the same problem. Indeed DietPi is based on Debian but there are some differences. Roon server installation script is modified and Roon is installed in another directory than normal linux installation. To be more specific, default Roon installation uses 'opt' as installation folder, and on Di...

It is working for me, but slightly modified in order to put the startup script on /var/lib/dietpi/postboot.d/ Install instructions: 1. Enable i2c (add to armbianEnv.txt): overlays=i2c0 usbhost1 usbhost2 2. Make sure the following components have been installed using the DietPi Software configuration...