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It looks like the processor is doing some form of DSP, so some smarts are required. It can also play from Spotify etc. and the binaries for that are probably bl
by chendragon 7y ago
It looks like the processor is doing some form of DSP, so some smarts are required. It can also play from Spotify etc. and the binaries for that are probably bloated like most cloud services.
With this said, had this been a lower end product, the SoC would probably have been an Allwinner or MTK with a soldered Realtek SDIO WiFi solution.
- baybal2 7y agoWhat I see on photos is a genuine PCI Express WiFi, just like one you see in notebooks. And the fact that the module is 3rd labeled, suggests that either Broadcom or Realtek is involved
- person_of_color 7y agoWhy do you need PCIe WiFI for audio?!
- Marsymars 7y ago> It can also play from Spotify etc. and the binaries for that are probably bloated like most cloud services. One of my favourite things about my Sonos setup is that it avoids me having to run bloated cloud service binaries on my personal computing devices. (Most notably, of the services I use, SiriusXM digital services have always been most unpleasant to use.)
- Gwypaas 7y agoThat's what made me ditch sonos 4 years ago. Being forced to run everything through the awful Sonos app instead of casting from the dedicated app or playing through Bluetooth without any delays.
- solarkraft 7y agoWhat do you use now? Seems to me like the only decent solution is UPnP.
- Marsymars 7y agoLast I checked, the Sonos app is better than the SiriusXM app. Not that I use it much anyway, I mostly use Sonos/Sirius via Alexa control.
- dingaling 7y agoBut the cost of that convenience is in giving random devices full access to both your LAN and the Internet. You could VLAN them into a separate audio-devices network and whitelist their Internet access but the effort in doing that would seem to outweigh any advantages of network audio devices. Sometimes a dumb, network-unaware Bluetooth audio sink just works...
- Marsymars 7y agoI've never found either Bluetooth, or the Sirius app to "just work". And Sonos is an established company, their speakers aren't "random devices" in the same sense as random IoT devices from Amazon.