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 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.
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.
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 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.
Sonos drops trade up program s recycle mode.
Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the.
Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the.
Take a recycle mode play 5 soon to be quite inexpensive on ebay.
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.
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.
Add a raspberry pi zero w.