Sonos Recycle Mode Hack

Add a raspberry pi zero w.

Sonos recycle mode hack.

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

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. 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. Now that sonos has done away with the recycle mode requirement for the trade up program does anyone know if there is a way to unbrick a device that was put in recycle mode but not yet recycled. Previously those seeking a discount on a new sonos speaker via its trade up program had to switch the old devices into recycle mode.

Even better if the sonos psu and amplifier can be reused with the bricked digital part disconnected. Sonos drops trade up program s recycle mode. 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. Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the.

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.