Sonos Recycle Mode Hack

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.

Sonos recycle mode hack. Sonos drops trade up program s recycle mode. 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. 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.

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 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. 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 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.

Add a raspberry pi zero w. 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. Take a recycle mode play 5 soon to be quite inexpensive on ebay. 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.