# ArcamDial - A tool to control your amp with a Surface Dial

**URL:** <https://arcam.discourse.group/t/arcamdial-a-tool-to-control-your-amp-with-a-surface-dial/364>\
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**Tags:** remote\
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://arcam.discourse.group/t/arcamdial-a-tool-to-control-your-amp-with-a-surface-dial/364 "2021-03-16T18:19:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Mark](https://arcam.discourse.group/u/Mark)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://arcam.discourse.group/t/arcamdial-a-tool-to-control-your-amp-with-a-surface-dial/364/1 "2021-03-16T18:19:48Z")

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There might be a subset of people that own a SA30 and a Microsoft Surface Dial. Or it could be just me.  
Anyway I made a Windows program that can be used to control the SA30 with the Surface Dial.  
It is similar to RooDial ([www.rooextend.com](http://www.rooextend.com)), except that you don’t need Roon + a RaspberryPi.  
Instead you need a Windows 10 PC. I used the pc that I also use to stream music from.

If you’re unfamiliar with the dial, it looks like a detached volume knob where you can also click on:  
 ![SurfaceDial](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/arcam/original/1X/a39f0def9b6879326794c6c8264e63d1547746c9.png)

The idea is that it feels nicer to rotate a knob to change volume than using the plasticy Arcam remote.

The program looks like this:

 ![ArcamDial](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/arcam/original/1X/f0429c0545b6c0e25f2e908eba0dba85007c39d2.png)

You can download the program with further details in the readme.txt from [this](https://markdonderwinkel.stackstorage.com/s/yZrwrEkzVe1uYcqc) link.

Oh, it’s free. Just a small hobby project I did to get myself more familiar with the programming language C#.

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**Author:** ![arcam\_paul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@arcam\_paul](https://arcam.discourse.group/u/arcam_paul)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://arcam.discourse.group/t/arcamdial-a-tool-to-control-your-amp-with-a-surface-dial/364/2 "2021-03-16T18:32:02Z")

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This is really neat, well done!

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**Author:** ![jvs1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/arcam.discourse.group/jvs1/32/10_2.png) [@jvs1](https://arcam.discourse.group/u/jvs1)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://arcam.discourse.group/t/arcamdial-a-tool-to-control-your-amp-with-a-surface-dial/364/3 "2021-03-16T19:13:10Z")

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Very nice contribution, well done.