The rest api was taken apart years ago for my old Sonos. They had originally promised to add AirPlay support later said, “Just kidding. Why don’t you brick it instead.” At that point I was finished with closed ecosystems for audio. At least someone made an AirPlay agent that lives on the home server. That speaker has survived many years too.
Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
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Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#12Respect to Bose for taking a better stance on this. I still remember Sonos implementing "Recycle Mode" that they thankfully backtracked on.
Backtracked or not I won't ever buy Sonos because of that move.
Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#13Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#14Providing API specs is not open-sourcing them. Where's the source code?
Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#15This might sound crazy to some people, but I think this is much better than ongoing support. Removal of reliance on cloud alone is a massive feature that gets me interested in buying one of these (I don't currently own one). And the fact it has an API I can hit myself? Awesome!!!
Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#16Providing API specs is not open-sourcing them. Where's the source code?
Maybe Bose doesn’t have all the rights necessary to open source their code, eg because they rely on libraries.
Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#17Respect to Bose for taking a better stance on this. I still remember Sonos implementing "Recycle Mode" that they thankfully backtracked on.
Backtracked or not I won't ever buy Sonos because of that move.
Yeah, I couldn't even get the damn thing to work reliably when it was new. Oh but you can rest assured that it had no problem exfiltrating all that precious data of mine about what I was doing, and any other things they could suck out of my Android phone. No way in hell will I EVER buy another Sonos product.
Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#18This makes me more likely to buy Bose.
Why would I buy something that a vendor intends to kill off in an attempt to make me buy again?
Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#19Happy to see this happening. You know what would make me even happier? Having open source alternatives available to use as soon as I buy the device, not only after it's discontinued
Re: Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
#20Providing API specs is not open-sourcing them. Where's the source code?
Yeah, it's kinda sad how much applause this is garnering when publishing API specs should be bare minimum for any smart device, never mind EoL concerns.