Sonos Recycle Mode Hack

Sonos drops trade up program s recycle mode.

Sonos recycle mode hack.

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. 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. 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. Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the.

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. 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. Previously those seeking a discount on a new sonos speaker via its trade up program had to switch the old devices into recycle mode.

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. Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the. Two weeks later people in my exact same situation could upgrade to the next gen play 5 and they did not need to recycle their devices. Even better if the sonos psu and amplifier can be reused with the bricked digital part disconnected.

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.