Any fellow soylentils early adopters of Sonos sound systems?
In May, Sonos will stop providing software updates for its oldest products, and they'll no longer receive any new features. The decision impacts "legacy" devices that are currently part of the company's trade-up program, including all Sonos Zone Players, the Connect and Connect:Amp, the first-generation Play:5, the CR200 controller, and the Bridge. It's important to note that with the Connect and Connect:Amp, this only applies to devices manufactured between 2011 and 2015. Newer hardware revisions will continue receiving updates.
"Without new software updates, access to services and overall functionality of your sound system will eventually be disrupted, particularly as partners evolve their technology," Sonos warned in a blog post today. The company says customers can choose to either keep using these products after support ends — they should continue functioning in the near-term — or replace them with a modern Sonos product at a discount.
Read more at The Verge.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday January 22 2020, @12:50PM (1 child)
So the engineering tradeoff is you can trade the one time cost of running PA-type system wires thru walls for an infinite cost of endless software updates and hardware replacements?
I think I'll just run wires.
For many years I had some speakers hooked up to old "misterhouse" the home automation system, but since moving to hass.io a year or two ago I haven't gotten around to reconnecting and reprogramming them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @01:19PM
I'm a gonna do the same with my smartphone.