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David_198
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November 7, 2016
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Forced to update to incompatible controller software?

  • November 7, 2016
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I have been using my three Sonos Play:1s quite happily now for well over a year, but now I have bought a new Play:1 and when trying to add it, I'm told "Your Sonos controller must be updated before you can add and set up Sonos products". I recall getting an email saying that the latest version of the Sonos Controller would not be compatible with Windows XP, which I'm still using on the machine where the Sonos controller is used.

Does this mean that I will be forced to update to a version of the controller that is not compatible with my OS, thus rendering my entire system unusable?

Before anyone says it, I am not interested in updating to a newer version of Windows at the moment. It's an enormous amount of work and there is no compelling reason for it. The OS is just background infrastructure in my view, not a toy. It should be meddled with as little as possible.
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    Best answer by Edward R
    David, your suggested approach of adding the player on the Windows 7 machine would suffice. Please be advised, however, that there may come a day where XP is no longer supported.

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    David_198Author
    Trending Lyricist I
    November 9, 2016
    Why this idea that the standby energy consumption is wasted? In cooler climes it heats the house, offsetting other energy costs.

    Leaving devices on which don't need to be on to heat the house is a really, really inefficient method.
    David_198Author
    Trending Lyricist I
    November 9, 2016
    Why this idea that the standby energy consumption is wasted? In cooler climes it heats the house, offsetting other energy costs.

    Exactly. It is far more complicated than "Lower electricity bill == Good for environment". It's never a one-to-one relationship. After all, electric cars are claimed to be great for the environment, but I guarantee their owner's electric bills are sky high from charging that car up every night.

    No one is going to state all of their assumptions. Some things should be obvious. Most electricity is (still) generated from non-renewable sources in most parts of the world. Reducing energy usage is almost always a gain because, providing that cleaner sources are prioritised, it will lead to the closure of more dirtier power stations or avoid the building of new ones.
    David_198Author
    Trending Lyricist I
    November 9, 2016
    Yes, you did. I save money and reduce my energy consumption, compared to saving an unknown (and in practice unknowable) amount of resources from lengthening the life of my equipment by an unknown amount.

    Again, you have no way of knowing that you reduce your overall energy consumption, any more than I do by leaving it on. Your energy bill is less, that is a fact. However, overall energy consumption (and environmental impact) is as unknown for me as it is for you. I assume my overall impact is reduced by leaving it on, based on accepted science, and estimations of reduced lifespan coupled with energy/environmental costs of manufacture, replacement, and disposal. You estimate the overall impact is reduced due to your own guesses of the same. So if you believe you are globally reducing energy consumption as well as personally, that belief is based on just as much conjecture as mine. Again, you are saving on your electric bill, that is a fact. That you are reducing any global energy use is very much up in the air. The facts just may be that by leaving it on and spending more a month, your overall impact is less.

    So you've calculated those estimates, have you?
    jgatie
    jgatie
    November 10, 2016

    No, not totally, and neither have you. I do know there is a cost, and an offset of convenience vs. energy savings. As do you. So any critique you have of my approach to global energy savings is just as baseless as my critique of yours.


    Except I never made a critique of yours . . .

    David_198Author
    Trending Lyricist I
    November 10, 2016
    No, not totally, and neither have you. I do know there is a cost, and an offset of convenience vs. energy savings. As do you. So any critique you have of my approach to global energy savings is just as baseless of my critique of yours.


    Except I never made a critique of yours . . .

    Not totally? So partially?
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