Bose SoundTouch audio system had been launched in 2013, providing the flexibility to connect with on-line streaming companies and play again audio on a number of audio system concurrently utilizing the accompanying cellular app. Now these options are about to be eliminated, together with the cellular app, as Bose is set to discontinue assist on February 18, 2026. From that time onwards, you possibly can solely use them by way of Bluetooth or bodily connectors which may be current, like an audio jack or HDMI port. This contains fancy house theater system {hardware} just like the above SoundTouch 520.
That’s the official line, at the very least. We’ve got seen the SoundTouch on Hackaday beforehand, when it was found how one can acquire root shell entry to the Linux OS that powers the unique SoundTouch system with Telnet entry on port 17,000 to cross the listening service the remote_services on command earlier than connecting with Telnet as typical, with root and no password. A fast look on the feedback to that publish means that that is nonetheless a legitimate method for at the very least sure SoundTouch gadgets.
The fallout from this announcement seems to be twofold: most of all that ‘good’ options like WiFi-based streaming will be dropped at any time. But it surely additionally makes us notice that {hardware} hackers like us won’t ever run out of recent and out of the blue out of date {hardware} that want our rescue.
