A Sirius Solution

[bkmurphy]

I was able to get Sirius working via adding Internet Radio links to my Sonos in the following way:

1. Install the tversity (www.tversity.com) uPNP software.
2. Install the uSirius software (you can find in the forums at tversity.com) which will add all of the Sirius channels to tversity.
3. Access tversity using its web interface and browse to the Sirius channel you want to play and click on it - it will start streaming playback through your browser.
4. Cut and paste the URL from your browser into the address field for a new internet radio station and Sonos.
5. Repeat as necessary for additional channels.

There may be a better way to pull all the tversity/uSirius URLs, but this was the only way I was able to get it to work on my Sonos.

[Grateful]

Thank you for suggesting uSirius. I downloaded Tversity and uSirius, got them installed on my computer and configured my Sonos Desktop Controller to play the Sirius stations! The one thing that threw me for a loop for a little while was that I needed to replace http://localhost:XXXX with my computer's IP address. Seems as though other programs, like WMP11, are smart enough to resolve "localhost", but the Sonos Desktop software didn't seem to like that. Once I made the change, it worked like a dream. The only other issue I experienced was that I had to manually add the Sirius URLs into Tversity - which wasn't too difficult once I figured out where to find them within uSirius. Unbelievable! I am so pleased to be able to stream my Sirius radio stations through my whole house via Sonos!

[Jason - Sonos]

Just as an fyi concerning localhost, (info taken from wikipedia as I like the explanation):

"In computing the term localhost refers to the location of the currently used system. It is a loopback device which is assigned the IP address 127.0.0.1 in IPv4, or ::1 in IPv6, which can be used by TCP/IP applications to talk to themselves if this is needed."

Basically this means that when Sonos tried to resolve localhost in an Internet radio station it looked at the ZonePlayer rather than your PC. WMP11 will be able to resolve the localhost as it is running on the computer the stream is being introduced on.

-Jason

[dss]

Hi, this is excellent, thank you for finding a solution as the inability to stream Sirius was one of the major dssapointments for me with Sonos (Please add a natural OTA option in the next rev!).

I'm having trouble getting this to work. I had to manually add the urls as well from uSirius into TVserity and when I click on the link in TVersity it opens a working link in WMP. Unfortunately that link just will not work with Sonos. uSirius is giving me errors that read "07:01:03 - Unsupported user agent: NSPlayer/7.1.0.1956 (compatible)."

This is a sample url:
http://192.168.1.102:19080/streams/s...dth=low....etc...

Any help would be appreciated and thanks again for the discovery!

[Grateful]

Dss,

I'm not sure why uSirius is giving you that error message. One way to test things out would be to test out the raw mms:// link in WMP11. If that works for you through uSirius, the http: proxyed through Tversity should work. Otherwise, you may want to check out any firewall settings that may be preventing it from working right.

However, before you try that, the developer of uSirius updated the executable so you could use uSirius WITHOUT Tversity. It's so slick.

Here's how:
1. Download the new exe from here: http://www.millardsoftware.com/downl...0RC3_CHAD3.zip
2. Turn off uSirius
3. Extract the new exe from the zip file. Replace the uSirius exe, with the new one.
4. Relaunch uSirius with the new exe
5. uSirius should be listening on your local computer on port 19080

Now, take a uSirius channel url, and change mms:// to http:// and stream/stream to asx/asx, ie:

change from:
mms://192.168.1.101:19080/stream/stream?bandwidth=high&num=1&r=1171850783

change to:
http://192.168.1.101:19080/asx/asx?b...1&r=1171850783

Create a new Internet Radio channel in your Sonos Desktop Controller software and paste in the new http:// uSirius URL. Now listen away!!

That should work for you (and everyone else). For the first time this morning, I woke up, walked over to my Sonos Controller, and listened to Sirius throughout my entire house -- very cool.

Let me know if you have any problems.

[dss]

This worked perfectly, thank you!! I love finally having a sirius solution!

[Jason - Sonos]

I'm temporarily sticking this thread among a few others that get a lot of hits/requests. Hopefully this helps prevent repeat questions and prevent lengthy searches.

-Jason

[bkmurphy]

The guy who made uSirius has also made uXM, which will allow for XM streaming in the same way using tversity.

[Grateful]

The developer of uSirius (and uXM) created a special uSirius executable that allowed me to stream Sirius through my Sonos without using Tversity. I'm guessing he could do the same for uXM. For those of you who didn't know, Sirius and XM announced on Monday that they were merging.

[heroildo]

Does anyone know if there is any way to get the song information to display on the Sonos controller?

Thanks,