Hey Sonos, this is how you handle old products, and this is why most of us wont touch your hardware ever again.

I have my fathers Sonos soundbar and a pair of speakers at home that I bought for him as Christmas gifts years ago. I still can't believe they knowingly released an app that bricked older devices.

I have to try and get them working again. The only solution I've heard of is to get an old version of the Sonos app APK, a dedicated old single purpose Android phone to acts as a bridge between your speakers and phone and connect that way.

Stay away from Sonos.

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snide a day ago | parent [-]

I have 2012 Sonos hardware. You can still get the original Sonos S1 controller, which works with old stuff. It's pretty annoying that all the new stuff is S2 (and that app is better supported), but it's not as hard as you're describing it. You can get it off Google Play and just use it.

The quality of the software, and the fact that it isn't really updated, is another thing, but the actual software availability is there.

	▲	esskay a day ago \| parent [-]
		_Some_ of the software is there. They randomly intentionally broke the desktop apps for S1 devices.