Roon DAC? help please....took a chance on Pachanko Labs - know nothing about Roon

Your Constellation Mini will be your Roon endpoint and recognized as such. So just about any DAC will do, but, it’s always best to buy Roon approved equipment.

Your core and bridge must be on the LAN so the endpoints can be recognized. You will need to use your phone, computer or note pad as a controller. Your Node won’t work unless you make it hardwired to your LAN or you have a wireless router. Wireless connections are subject to music interruptions when playing hi-res files. The USB on the Node 2i is for an external hard drive.

Did you buy more SSD drive. The SSD for the OS most likely won’t let you store music there You have to have music on a hard drive, Qobuz or Tidal in order to use Roon. If you have a hard drive with music on it you can plug that into the USB in port on the Constellation mini. The only output is USB.

It’s a great thing you can get Roon Lifetime since the price is going up on Dec 31st. Cost now is 699.99 US going to 830.00. I went on the Constellation website and the price for your unit did not change when no to Roon Lifetime was selected.  Roon controller software has always been free. Sorry, but it looks suspicious. Just lock it in before then. Hope this helps.

Pachanko Labs is not listed as Roon Ready or Roon tested.  Again, I would look closely into them.  Good luck with this.

My DAC is not Roon ready, so I bought a Roon Nucleus to use a the streamer and Roon Core. Works great. I believe you could do the same with Small Green Computer. 

I don't see that your device supports any streaming services. I don't use Roon can you access them via Roon if it doesn't support those services?

Roon supports Qobuz and Tidal.  The Pachanko server will serve as the Roon core and you can connect any DAC directly to the server and there is no necessity for the DAC to be Roon approved.  The Roon approved endpoint issue arises only if you wish to connect the Panchanko to your DAC by the local Ethernet or Wi-Fi network.  If you will be networking the Server and the endpoint then the endpoint needs to be Roon certified.  I use a Wolf Alpha 3SX server as my Roon core on my rack and connect my Gryphon DAC via USB.  My Wolf is hardwired to my switch and router and via Roon accesses Qobuz and my 24TB NAS for content.  I use an IPAD employing the “Roon Remote” to control my selections.