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Hi all, hopefully as well Sonos

 

is there a plan once in a while to have one App supporting all Sonos Speakers again… so get rid of Sonos and S1?

Here my conclusion, I have started with Sonos 10 years ago, my house is full of it, arounf 7k dollars in speakers, incl. Dolby, Sub, Playbar and many more.

i had the interest to add some speakers, one in this room or that room…. Now I see that I would have to use 2 apps or trade-in my old equipment with a joking price i get as a rebate, the speakers all still work fine as of now… So no need to exchange… still music will come out of it, correct.

 

As long it is as it is and speakers from Sonos are NOT compatible with ONE app i will never ever buy a speaker from Sonos, rather I check for a more open system.

 

lLike that you can kill a company and if I looked what happend in the past with Sonos stock and CEO you guys are on the best way to disapear from a market which you have dominated some years ago… Sad story.

 

If someone from Sonos reads this, a short info about how you guys go forward would be of interest, for sure for me and as well for some of this community.

 

thanks

 

If you started with Sonos 10 years ago, you more than likely have units which are fully compatible with S2.  The last unit sold which is S1 only, the Play:5 Gen1,  was discontinued in 2015.  Anything manufactured/sold from 2015 on are compatible with S2.  

See here for a list of S1/S2 compatibility:  https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/sonos-app-version-compatibility

As to them suddenly deciding to combine S1 and S2 into one app, it’s not going to happen.  The lack of RAM and storage on the legacy devices which created the original split from S1 is not going away.  Also, it’s been 5 years since that split.  Are there really people out there still complaining about it?  

Sadly Sonos faced a choice, either not support current standards (wifi, smb etc) on newer devices that had the ability to support them or have two branches, one that provided everything possible on the older hardware and one that allowed new features and supported current standards.

There are apps out there that may support what you are looking for, don't use them or follow them so I'm no help there.

Sonos is putting a lot of effort into not having to do a new S3 split, whatever they come up with will hopefully be less disruptive, but at some point you have to admit that older hardware is pushed to the limits it can support and decide how new features and new standards will be supported.

 

Looking back to the S1/S2 split one of the insurmountable issues was that the core operating system code to support SMB 2 and beyond just wouldn't fit in the memory available in older hardware. As SMB v1 was being removed from almost every other operating system somthing had to be done.

If you started with Sonos 10 years ago, you more than likely have units which are fully compatible with S2. 

Their profile lists one s1 only speaker model. 

If you started with Sonos 10 years ago, you more than likely have units which are fully compatible with S2. 

Their profile lists one s1 only speaker model. 

 

I don’t normally look at profiles, and I did say “more than likely”.  But thanks for the correction, I’ll amend it to “more than likely mostly have a majority of” if it pleases. 

If you started with Sonos 10 years ago, you more than likely have units which are fully compatible with S2. 

Their profile lists one s1 only speaker model. 

 

I don’t normally look at profiles, and I did say “more than likely”.  But thanks for the correction, I’ll amend it to “more than likely mostly have a majority of” if it pleases. 

Not sure why you are getting yippy. This wasn’t a correction, it was in support of your post. 

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