OT: For Sirius/XM and Blackberry/iPhone users

[JetStream]

Just hooked up my Curve with this and it's great...listening to Howard 100 on my Curve as we speak.

Follow the setup with uSirius and Orb on your home computer, than access the radio channel from your phone...make sure you have an unlimited data plan. Good luck.

Follow this for setting up Orb and USirius and I believe there is a UXM too...
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[url]http://www.millardsoftware.com/content/usirius-10-release-candidate-7[/url]


[QUOTE]Lets start with allowing your pc to accept incoming connections for the following ports.

uSirius uses port 19080 (you can change the port if needed)
Orb client does not need ports forwarded.

Goto to this site [url]http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Linksys/WRT54G/default.htm[/url] it will show you how to port forward with a linksys router. Make sure that your windows, or any other firewall, is turned off or you make rules for the incoming ports.

You will also need to know what your public ip is by going here [url]http://www.whatismyip.com/[/url]

You dont need alot of upload speed to achieve this, my upload speed is 500kbps and I listen to the premium feed from sirius. At max you will be using 128kbps.

Got [url]http://www.orb.com[/url] download the orb client, create an orb account and launch the orb client on your pc. Make sure that the orb client icon is green on the taskbar.

Now launch uSirius, put in your username and password under settings. Then hit start and make sure uSirius logs in to sirius.

Open your browser and goto orb.com and sign in, look for the button on the top left hand side that reads "Open Application" then select "AUDIO" it should take you to the Internet Radio *Favorite Channels.

You are now going to create a Custom Channel, next to the "Open Application" button you will see "Record" "Add Custom" and "Delete". Select "Add Custom".

On the popup enter the name of the channel such as "Sirius Hits 1" on the "PATH" you have to go back to uSirius and click the "URLs" button, a new window will come up and you can select the channel from the drop down. Pick Sirius 1 - SIRIUS Hits 1, below the description you will see the url for that channel, like this :

"mms://192.168.0.100:19080/streams/stream?bandwidth=high&num=1&r=1194623027"

This url will be what you copy and paste in the "PATH" in the "Add Custom Channel" window on the browser.

IMPORTANT

As you notice the url from uSirius says "mms://192.168.0.100" however the ip 192.168.x.x can not be forwarded on the internet, so you have to replace it with the public ip address you got from [url]http://www.whatismyip.com/[/url].

Your path should look like this: ""mms://PUBLICIP:19080/streams/stream?bandwidth=high&num=1&r=1194623027"

Click the "Submit" button and you now have a channel setup. [/QUOTE]

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Then after this is up and running, and you need to keep them running at home, you can go to your Orb account on your phone and stream the stations you want...set up Howard 100, 101 and NFL so far....

[SUJets1988]

I'm a Sirius and Blackberry user, but this looks damn complicated (after a brief skim). How long did it take and how quickly will it drain my already sub-par Blackberry battery?

[JetStream]

Took me a bit of time, mostly because i had not found this exact link and didn't get the trick about getting my computers IP...

As for the battery, not sure, just playing with it now...

[isired]

anyone with a windows mobile phone and a sirius account can hear sirius with SiriusWM5 (misleading name, it works on all versions of WinMobile- download from [url]http://www.geekstoolbox.com[/url], copy teh installer to your phone, then run it.

pretty cool, i've been using it for a few years. the same group are in the process of making a multi-platform tool for mac, pc, iphone, smartphone, pocket pc et al, should be out next year.