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That kinda sucks, especially since even the older ones work with Home Assistant etc directly now
Not without internet access and Sonos cloud servers, it doesn't...
I think that the cloud system might be needed to initially pair the speaker to a network+account, but apart from that no. The speakers in my media network are not allowed Internet access.
I was on iobroker at that time and HA still wore diapers 😁 So today it Wouldn't be as bad, but at that time they were just effectively rendered dumb cubes to us.