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 recycle mode hack.

Sonos drops trade up program s recycle mode. 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. 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 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 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.

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. Recycle mode would then within 30 days brick the. Add a raspberry pi zero w. 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.

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.