Lukas & Team - Smart Home Fix: Bose

Bose SoundTouch: Troubleshooting Discovery Failed Error in SmartThings

#Bose #SoundTouch #Discoveryfailed

🔍 Full Report: https://www.digitalhomefaults.org/bose/soundtouch/bose-soundtouch-discovery-failed-smartthings

Открытие API старых вещей

В последнее время всё чаще слышны призывы к производителям открывать API и исходный код для гаджетов, которые заканчивают свою жизнь. В этом случае сообщество может выполнять поддержку и даже расширять функциональность устройств. Именно так следует «заканчивать жизнь» старых моделей — через опенсорс.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/globalsign/articles/1005216/

#Bose #API #умные_колонки #запланированное_устаревание #окончание_поддержки #старые_вещи #SoundTouch #software_tethering

#Bose #SoundTouch End of Life Gets Less Painful With Public #API Release
The API documentation opens the door for #developers to build their own control apps (hopefully #opensource ones).
https://itsfoss.com/news/bose-soundtouch-api/

This is the RIGHT way to EoL a product! Looking at you Sonos!

Nice, Bose is open sourcing their EoL product's API, so that users can continue to use the product locally, without the cloud services!

More of that, please!

https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source

#bose #soundtouch #opensource

#Bose #OpenSources its #SoundTouch home theater #SmartSpeakers ahead of end-of-life

If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.

Scharon Harding – Jan 7, 2026 1:51 PM |
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"Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (#EoL) of the expensive home theater devices.

"In October, Bose announced that its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars would become dumb speakers on February 18. At the time, Bose said that the speakers would only work if a device was connected via #AUX, #HDMI, or #Bluetooth (which has higher latency than Wi-Fi).

"After that date, the speakers would stop receiving security and software updates and lose cloud connectivity and their companion app, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based company said. Without the app, users would no longer be able to integrate the device with music services, such as Spotify, have multiple SoundTouch devices play the same audio simultaneously, or use or edit saved presets.

"The announcement frustrated some of Bose’s long-time customers, some of whom own multiple SoundTouch devices that still function properly. Many questioned companies’ increasingly common practice of bricking expensive products to focus on new devices or to minimize costs, or because they’ve gone through acquisitions or bankruptcy. SoundTouch speakers released in 2013 and 2015 with prices ranging from $399 to $1,500.

"Today, Bose had better news. In an email to customers, Bose announced that #AirPlay and #SpotifyConnect will still work with SoundTouch speakers after EoL, expanding the wireless capabilities that people will still be able to access.

"Additionally, SoundTouch devices that support #AirPlay2 will be able to play the same audio simultaneously.

"The SoundTouch app will also live on, albeit stripped of some functionality."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/

#SolarPunkSunday #BoseProducts #Obsolescence #AudioSpeakers #HomeTheater #OpenSource

Lilbits: Samsung’s Ballie Robot isn’t rolling out anytime soon, Bose open sources APIs for wireless speakers ahead of cloud service shutdown, and a pocket-sized AI lab, and

Bose announced in October that it would soon be ending cloud services for its SoundTouch WiFi speakers. The original plan would have basically turned them into little more than Bluetooth speakers. But responding to feedback, Bose has modified its plans a bit.

First, the cloud features will end on May 6 rather than Feb 18 to help ease the transition. Second, in addition to Bluetooth and aux […]

Dear Bose Corporation, why don't you just release a machine readable API description (OpenAPI) for your soon to be bricked devices?

It's 2026 and all we get is a PDF, really?

https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life

#bose #openapi #soundtouch