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Repurpose recycled Play 5

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I purchased a play 5 for part. Turns out it’s recycled but the speakers work just fine. I understand the need to brick the software component of the speaker but is there any reason this can’t be used as a plain old “dumb speaker?” Seems like a total waste to make the speaker completely non functional.

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Stanley_4Answer

Grand Maestro

No direct instructions but you could start with something like a Raspberry Pi Zero-W (cheap and has a WiFi radio) computer and add a power-amp to it. Making that a bit more complicated the internal speakers in a Play 5 aren’t a simple left right pair.

LF Driver: 3 x 4” woofers and HF Driver: 1 x 1” and 2 x ¾” tweeters

From a quick look at Amazon, to drive just a stereo pair of the internal LF and HF speakers this setup would work.

A complete kit, just the Pi is a lot cheaper if you have the other stuff:

https://smile.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Wireless-Complete-Starter/dp/B07CMVDHWB/ref=sr_1_5

Small 3 Watt amp:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01N24JQ37/?coliid=I31UEI8A46877I&colid=3U87SXP1HSZ5E&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Or a hefty 60 Watt amp:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B076DLCRHF/?coliid=I19I9RWMCNUVJB&colid=3U87SXP1HSZ5E&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Crossover:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01N6Q75DW/ref=psdc_11042521_t1_B01IZ7JF2I

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Airgetlam

I think if it was deactivated during the weeks that Sonos was doing that as part of the trade up process, there’s no chance of recovery.

Bruce

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Landfillsonos

Lyricist II

I think if it was deactivated during the weeks that Sonos was doing that as part of the trade up process, there’s no chance of recovery.

Yeah if so then i get an amp that has Bluetooth and drill a hole and rewire it for the garage gym

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compulen

Lyricist I

yes !

Disclaimer, please be aware that the opening of this device exposes you to electrical shock risks.

As mentionnend before my play 5 was shut down during the 21 days of its recycle mode. After what I removed the WLAN module.

My first attemp idea was to keep only the power board from the Sonos, and replace the Sonos logic board with an Arylic Pro board I had lying around.

The GPIO-like port exposes most of the CS44800 DAC pins, especialy the I2S protocol pins that I could output from the Arylic bord, but I didn’t managed yet to power up the DAC.

But overall, with the Sonos logic board reinserted, the device still starts, and won’t connect anymore because of the missing WLAN board. The line-in jack passthrough works after the play 5 has booted up, so I only soldered some wires from the jack and placed the Arylic board into the bottom of the play 5. And it still work since 5-6 months now.

I understand you performed this mod before Sonos had a chance to brick the device, by removing the wlan module. Any idea if this will work AFTER the device has been put into recycle mode?

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