DEVIALET now Roon Ready.

[baddog]

I installed the new firmware, and it's great to have Roon on the Devialet with Tidal and Qobuz Beta in the US.  However, I still seem to need to have Roon running on my Mac Mini for this to work.  Was the point of this upgrade not that I can control the music through the Roon-enabled Devialet endpoint without needing to be connected to another core like the Mac Mini?  Roon does not seem to find the Devialet as an alternative core.  

Or am I missing something?

Roon Ready support on the Devialet does not replace the need/requirement to run a Roon Core somewhere in your system. The point of the upgrade was in regards to the capabilities of the being a supported Roon Ready device (i.e being able to stream to multiple Roon Ready devices), support for RAAT (Roon Advanced Audio Transport), as opposed to Devialet AIR, or UPnP, Airplay et al...

You can read more about RAAT here.

And to answer your question, this new firmware does not make the Devialet a Roon Core (which would certainly be interesting, with associated pros and cons).