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OTP meaning

  • October 3, 2023
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What is the meaning of the term OTP in the About my system settings?

Best answer by ratty

“One Time Programmable”

The last time I recall seeing a populated field was on an S5 (aka Play:5/gen1) where it appeared to refer to a boot loader version.

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AjTrek1
  • October 3, 2023

Hi 

OTP usually stands for One Time Password. Are you using some type of VPN? Sonos doesn’t require an OTP; at least not to my knowledge, as I’ve never been asked to use one.


Airgetlam
  • October 3, 2023

That’s an interesting question, and to go along with it, not all my devices show that (in particular, the Amps don’t, all the speakers themselves do).


Airgetlam
  • October 3, 2023

@AjTrek1 , go to ‘About my system’ and look at the details there. At the bottom of each speaker I have currently (PLAYBASE and PLAY:1s running S2), there’s an OTP: with nothing after it at the bottom. Never paid any particular attention to it, as it was blank. 


AjTrek1
  • October 3, 2023

@Airgetlam

Thanks for the directions but; oddly (or maybe not) none my speakers make reference to an OTP. I no longer have any pre-Sonos One (nor Sonos One) speakers so I wonder if that has anything to do with why I’m not seeing the OTP. Come to think of it I do vaguely recall seeing the OTP reference in the past or maybe it’s your power of suggestion leading me to believe I saw it 😂😂😂


Ken_Griffiths

I always thought it stood for 'Over (the) Top Protocol' and was linked to the IPv6 networking protocol for 128 bit addressing. Something to do with Cisco and virtual addresses where a WAN is seen as part of a LAN.

I think I have seen screenshots on the forum in the past, that shows an IPv6 address next to the OTP entry. 

I'm not absolutely sure though… just something I have seen/read at some point in the past.


Ken_Griffiths

@Airgetlam

Thank for the directions but; oddly (or maybe not) none my speakers make reference to an OTP.

None do show on S2, I think, but it still shows up in the S1 App ‘about’ box. That said I don’t now have any older products (Play:1’s etc.) currently running on S2.


ratty
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  • October 4, 2023

“One Time Programmable”

The last time I recall seeing a populated field was on an S5 (aka Play:5/gen1) where it appeared to refer to a boot loader version.


melvimbe
  • October 4, 2023

I think the group Naughty By Nature made a song about that.