Compatibilty Sonos S2

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Hi, Today Sonos announced the S2 software for their latest speakers. Will the Play:1 and Play:3 speakers be compatible with the S2 release?

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John BAnswer

Yes the Play:1 and Play:3 will get the new software. The Play:1 and Play:3 are not ‘legacy’ speakers.

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efxlab

Lyricist II

Oops. Sorry.

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Sandiee

Contributor II

I guess the S1/S2 ‘construction’ is a fair compromise to accommodate older and new devices, at least I will give it benefit of doubt for the time being and see how it all works out in real world later this summer. But there is one thing I remain puzzled about; how come the Play 3 is S2 compatible, it’s just as old (or even older) as the first generation Play 5, Connect, Connect AMP… Is is just because there is no successor yet?

Airgetlam

More likely because it contains more internal memory in which to store the S2 software necessary.

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jgatie

I guess the S1/S2 ‘construction’ is a fair compromise to accommodate older and new devices, at least I will give it benefit of doubt for the time being and see how it all works out in real world later this summer. But there is one thing I remain puzzled about; how come the Play 3 is S2 compatible, it’s just as old (or even older) as the first generation Play 5, Connect, Connect AMP… Is is just because there is no successor yet?

Actually, it is younger than all three of those. The legacy Connect and Connect:Amp models were a rebranding of the ZP90/ZP120, which launched in October 2008, and the Play:5 Gen 1 (originally S5) launched in November 2009. The Play:3 didn’t arrive until July 2011. And as said above, the Play:3 has double the memory and storage than the older models.

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mike_93

Contributor I

what models of the connect amp are compaitble with Sonos S2 app.

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MNW

Contributor I

Sonos S2 not compatible despite all Sonos equipment being listed as compatible.

I only have the Sonos equipment highlighted in the attached schematic taken from https://support.sonos.com/s/article/4786?language=en_US

Yet the Sonos S2 Controller does not work - states that my Sonos devices are incompatible. See second attached image.

Any help appreciated

Smilja

@MNW, Either click in the PC controller on ‘More Options → Forget current system’ (you won’t lose any settings but afterwards you would need to remove the S1-Controller manually from the machine; the S2 app can be found here) or use the iOS/Android app (‘Settings → System → System Tools → Compatibility Check’).

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John B

Use the mobile app, not the desktop. See for example here (and many other threads):

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/play-1-and-play-5-set-up-s2-says-not-compatible-help-page-disagrees-6843417

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MNW

Contributor I

Smilja and John B, thanks so much - that solved it!