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SYMFONISK Speaker Conversion

opensymf — Open-Source SYMFONISK & Sonos Speaker Conversion

A whole-house project converting seven IKEA SYMFONISK and Sonos speakers from proprietary systems to Raspberry Pi-based open-source audio players — escaping vendor lock-in while keeping the original hardware intact. Source code & docs: github.com/papadopouloskyriakos/opensymf Why? Sonos ended support for older speakers, stranding them on a frozen S1 platform with no future updates or integration with newer devices. IKEA SYMFONISK speakers, being Sonos-based internally, face the same fate. Rather than accept planned obsolescence, this project replaces the proprietary brains while keeping the original power supplies, speaker drivers, buttons, and LEDs. ...

March 1, 2025 · 5 min · Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Portfolio site architecture: GitLab CI pipeline to dual-cluster DMZ deployment

Portfolio Site: Hugo + Live Chaos Engineering

This is the site you’re looking at. It started as a Hugo portfolio deployed to DMZ nginx containers via GitLab CI and AWX. Then I added a status page that shows the VPN mesh in real-time. Then I added the ability to kill tunnels from the browser. Then I added a log terminal that streams syslog from the firewalls while you watch. It kept going. Try it on the status page – click tunnel edges on the graph, hit Kill, and watch what happens. ...

December 16, 2025 · Updated June 19, 2026 · 5 min · Kyriakos Papadopoulos