German (Germany) 
English (United Kingdom) There are new versions of the Roonmatrix and Coverplayer firmware and the app in version 1.2.0
Image version 1.2.0 for the Roonmatrix standard version with 21 matrix modules: 
Image version 1.2.0 for the Roonmatrix mini version with 9 matrix modules and optional MiniBoss DAC:
New version of the Coverplayer firmware in version 1.2.0
Image version 1.2.0 for the Coverplayer device:
The images are packed and must first be unpacked. If you want to write the image to a micro SD card on a Windows or Linux computer, you must first change the file extension from dmg to iso.
The Version 1.2.0 is out now.
New app features:
- Support for Spotify Connect and direct one-time authorization via Spotify login directly in the app.
- Selection of Spotify Connect output channel, configuration of format and bitrate (BossDAC, USB Bluetooth audio dongle).
- Selection of Airplay 2 output channel (BossDAC, USB BT dongle).
- Multilanguage support (auto, german, english, french, spanish, italian, expandable for additional languages via json file, auto-update via web server).
- Significantly faster display update on track change and status updates.
- Display of device log in color, new log page pagination, with filter to displaying search hits only.
- Configuration of the Coverplayer virtual keyboard with multilingual support and individual key assignment.
- Marking of covers with platform logo in the cover view.
- Improved detection of zone status and display in the cover view (paused, inactive zone).
New firmware features for Roonmatrix and Coverplayer:
- Support for Spotify Connect.
- Support for USB Bluetooth audio dongles, playback control via Spotify Connect and Airplay 2, as well as Roon.
- Multilanguage support (german, english, french, spanish, italian, expandable for additional languages via ini file, auto-update via web server).
- Automatic location detection or manual language selection via country code parameter (auto, de, en, fr, es, it).
- Automatic detection of Roon server IP and port.
- Support for IPv4 and IPv6, optional network limitation to IPv4 (for DS lite cable internet).
- New webserver PHP and Python scripts to get extended track info via AppleScript.
New firmware features for Coverplayer:
- Search in various categories such as artist, track, playlist, genre, and radio.
- Search in local library from Roon and Apple Music.
- Optional search in Spotify and Apple Music streaming services.
- Auto-restart of the application and UI in case of program error.
- Zone selection buttons with platform icon (Roon, Spotify, Spotify Connect, Apple Music).
- Display auto-wakeup: When changing tracks, the display is turned back on (after optional touch timeout).
- Repeat and shuffle buttons: to selecting the corresponding playback mode and displaying the status.
- Tracklist button: Display the tracks of the currently displayed album.
- Significantly faster display update on track change and status updates (e.g., due to status changes of repeat, shuffle, playback, position).
- Better support for special characters and languages.
- Two options to displaying the virtual keyboard (standard keyboard-like layout or alternative optimized keyboard layout).
- Zone autoswitch option: Automatic switch to another zone when the active zone goes offline.
- Correct display of a cover in png image format.
- Selection of the Spotify Connect output channel via zone button click.
- Extended webserver PHP and Python scripts to searching for artists, tracks, playlists, genres, and radio, as well as title info via AppleScript.
And the changes of older versions...
The Version 1.1.0 is a really big update:
mobile Version
- Support for CoverPlayer device (free maker project (coming soon): a device with color lcd display to show the album cover of playing track in selected zone, select zone, and control play mode).
- Zone cover area: a zones overview with cover and play control at the bottom row below device list, animated if new zones available or removed.
- device scan extremely faster now.
- smoothly scrolling zone text ticker which displays information about playing zones (artist, album, track) now glitch-free (updates behind visible area).
- communication between app and device changed from timed pull requests to websockets for faster reaction on zone updates.
- new expandable menu button to select page (config, play control, message, monitoring, log).
- expandable start button (right from zone overview cover) to start Spotify or Apple Music app.
- Control page with new buttons for repeat and shuffle mode.
- Device list: shows cover art if cover is available (for Roon, Spotify and Apple Music zones).
- Device list: control ticker speed by slider in page title area.
- Device list: open big ticker (scrollbar) by click on ticker text of device item, and control ticker speed by slider in page title area.
- Device list: open control page by click on cover of device item.
- SettingsPage: configure what should be displayed in zone cover area (artist, album, title, size of covers dynamically or static).
- a lot of small bugs fixed.
desktop Version
- Support for CoverPlayer device (free maker project (coming soon): a device with color lcd display to show the album cover of playing track in selected zone, select zone, and control play mode).
- Zone cover area: a zones overview with cover and play control at the bottom row below device list, animated if new zones available or removed.
- device scan extremely faster now.
- smoothly scrolling zone text ticker which displays information about playing zones (artist, album, track) now glitch-free (updates behind visible area).
- communication between app and device changed from timed pull requests to websockets for faster reaction on zone updates.
- button row (in bottom area, right from export button) to start Spotify or Apple Music app.
- Control page with new buttons for repeat and shuffle mode.
- Device list: shows cover art if cover is available (for Roon, Spotify and Apple Music zones).
- Device list: control ticker speed on hoverering in right bottom corner of device item.
- Device list: open big ticker (scrollbar) by click on ticker text of device item, and control ticker speed on hoverering in right bottom corner of ticker page.
- Device list: open control page by click on cover of device item.
- SettingsPage: configure what should be displayed in zone cover area (artist, album, title, size of covers dynamically or static).
- a lot of small bugs fixed.
The app is designed to control the following devices:
- Roonmatrix, a free Maker project: a device with an big LED matrix to displaying the music currently playing as a scrolling ticker, to selecting the zone, and to controlling the playback mode.
- Coverplayer, a free maker project: a small device with a square color LCD display to showing the album cover, selecting the zone, controlling the playback mode, and searching the music libraries.
Here are the left to the apps:
| Apple App Store Link to | iOS version |
| Apple App Store Link to | macOS version |
| Microsoft Store Link to | Windows version |
| UpToDown App Store Link to | Android version |
| Canonical Snapcraft Store Link to | Linux version, Ubuntu (AMD64, ARM64) |