Any way you slice it this is a major improvement over the old program while sonos positioned its recycle mode as a way to make sure that people weren t acquiring aging hardware that didn t work.
Sonos recycle mode hack.
Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the.
Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the.
Add a raspberry pi zero w.
Even better if the sonos psu and amplifier can be reused with the bricked digital part disconnected.
I put my play 5 in recycle mode 2 months ago but i haven t gotten rid of it yet just wondering if there s a way to make it work again.
Sonos drops trade up program s recycle mode.
If a user went into the system menu of an old device and selected to put it in recycle mode the discount would be activated on their account.
Take a recycle mode play 5 soon to be quite inexpensive on ebay.
I was forced to put my device into recycle mode in order to upgrade after i was told that my play 5 would no longer be supported.
Then find or build a dac amp board that will connect to the pi and to the speakers of the play 5 replacing the sonos electronics.
Sonos is getting rid of the controversial recycle mode that forced customers participating in the company s trade up program to permanently brick their older devices.
Recycle mode is part of the trade up program that sonos announced back in october which lets customers get a discount on newer sonos speakers like the one beam or the port that nilay just reviewed.
Previously those seeking a discount on a new sonos speaker via its trade up program had to switch the old devices into recycle mode.