#How to update sonos playbar software upgrade#
The company maintains that it designs and develops products that consumers should be able to use for many years-unlike, say, the smartphone industry, which has nudged consumers into one- to two-year upgrade cycles. Sonos, which has been making wireless audio products for 18 years, is considered a pioneer in the streaming audio industry. It’s also offering to recycle the old devices at no charge-though, by the company’s calculations, it’s more sustainable if customers take their old devices to their local e-cycling centers instead of shipping them to Sonos. Sonos says it’s offering 30 percent off any new speaker that will serve as a replacement speaker for one of the legacy products. You have three options at that point: Keep running your entire Sonos network on the old software, replace the dud speaker or amp with a newer model, or isolate that obsolete speaker by setting it up on its own discrete Sonos network. As long as that weak link is sitting on your network, it will prevent all of your Sonos hardware from getting the newest software, gaining new features, and receiving bug fixes. To update your entire system to the latest software, which you’ll inevitably want to do, that legacy speaker will not be able to accept the update. So if you have a first-gen Play:5, for example, you should still be able to use it in conjunction with a more modern set of Sonos One speakers or the Sonos Beam soundbar.
The upside is that Sonos says its legacy speakers and amps should still work on the same network alongside more modern Sonos speakers. The CR200 remote and the original Zone Player lineup are some of the Sonos products that will stop accepting software updates.
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