Getting Sirius Radio with WebRadio

[Dave72]

I dont suppose you're a Sirius subscriber eh ?

Would be nice to have a port to the Sirius stream (would have to be some kind of spawn the app and intercept I guess ?). I dont have an immediate use for this yet, until I get some gbpvr device (client lappy ?) into the garage. Currently, I just go grab my Starmate from the jeep and bring it into the shop , plug it into the harness to the audio system there.

Someday, Ill have the net in there (have cat5 from my crossconnect to a jack in there, just in cast though.. )

The music is duplicated easily from the existing web streams, but stuff like RawDog etc I dunno (maybe I havent search enough in the existing ?)

[mvallevand]

No I don't have Sirius or XFM. I do have an MVP in the workroom connected by Powerline Ethernet with no TV and I start mvpmc internet radio through the browser interface. This is one of the reasons I want a web interface in GBPVR.

Martin

[ryanmc]

I dont suppose you're a Sirius subscriber eh ?

Would be nice to have a port to the Sirius stream (would have to be some kind of spawn the app and intercept I guess ?). I dont have an immediate use for this yet, until I get some gbpvr device (client lappy ?) into the garage. Currently, I just go grab my Starmate from the jeep and bring it into the shop , plug it into the harness to the audio system there.

Someday, Ill have the net in there (have cat5 from my crossconnect to a jack in there, just in cast though.. )

The music is duplicated easily from the existing web streams, but stuff like RawDog etc I dunno (maybe I havent search enough in the existing ?)

i use web streams and siriusstreamer(usirius replacement) and it works fine with all channels that i know of. only problem is that when used on pch the streams are transcoded using vlc because sirius streams are mms which last i know of pch doesnt support. i also use several stereo channel modulators and an rf remote which puts the one pch i have on all the tv's in the house on problem is its 480i on all of those tv's.

[mvallevand]

Thanks ryanmc. Based on this page http://www.digitalradiocentral.com/sir-x...ement.html it looks like you could get Sirius with SiriusStreamer. It looks like the default format for a Favourite would mean simply using url (specify the channel you want) mms://localhost:51710/sirius?channel=104

Martin

[Dave72]

I set up that SiriusStreamer, and it gets audio on it own (well, it spawns and external like WMP). I entered some data in /media/webradio/myradiofavorites.xml following the existing fav items like this..

<Station>
<Type>Radio</Type>
<Title>SiriusStreamer-Hits1</Title>
<Icon>radio.png</Icon>
<Genre>Hits</Genre>
<Target>mms://127.0.0.1:51710/sirius?channel=1</Target>
<HomeURL></HomeURL>
<Streamtype>3mu</Streamtype>
<Country />
<State />
<City />
<CountryCode />
<Bitrate>128</Bitrate>
</Station>

The item shows up in Pvrx2, when I click on it I get no sound. The Streamer log shows a request ..

6:59 AM: Servicing request from '127.0.0.1:4425'...
6:59 AM: Retrieving stream URL for channel 'Sirius 1 - SIRIUS Hits 1'...
6:59 AM: Retrieving ASX for channel 'Sirius 1 - SIRIUS Hits 1'...
6:59 AM: Completed request from '127.0.0.1:4425'.

The 'protocol' in Streamer is set to mms, which seems right. Im not sure if the 'format' should be asx or m3u. On the last test just now, I had the Streamer set to m3u, but the log shows an asx request ?

BTW, do I have to stop/restart pvrx2 recording services when I make an edit to something like myradiofavorites ??

[mvallevand]

One issue could the stream type, 3mu isn't valid and for this I'd prefer you to use wma. If that isn't it could you send the logs and I will try and see what is going on.

Also as a suggestion that might help others if you upload the file afterward would be for you to add a Sirius choice to UserMenu.xml as follows

Code:

<StationList>
<Type>RadioMenu</Type>
<Title>Sirius Radio</Title>
<Description>Sirius Radio Relay</Description>
<Icon>Sirius.png</Icon>
<MenuFile>filename</MenuFile>
</StationList>

The filename can be many types.

- As filename.xml you can add a bunch of segments that match the My Favourites setup.

- As filename.csv you can use
SiriusStreamer-Hits1.mms://127.0.0.1:51710/sirius?channel=1,wma,0

- As filename.m3u you might be able to use

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:SiriusStreamer-Hits1
mms://127.0.0.1:51710/sirius?channel=1

Martin

[Dave72]

Managed to get it working (woot !)

In Sirius Streamer, set config to http and m3u

In Usermenu.xml referred to a SiriusStreamer.csv file

In SiriusStreamer.csv the file looks like this:

csv_ver:0001,,,
"SiriusStreamer-Hits1",http://127.0.0.1:51710/sirius?channel=1,m3u,1
"Sirius-70s on 7",http://127.0.0.1:51710/sirius?channel=7,m3u,1
etc

Im not sure what that ,1 at the end means.. I was trying all sorts of formats and things, mostly from examples in the existing csv's. I lucked out when it worked..

Thanks for your tips with this.. yet another use for GBPVR !!

[mvallevand]

Glad you got it the 0 and 1 aren't really used yet I'm surprised it made a difference. The lastplayed.csv file might even show you a more direct url.

Martin

[mvallevand]

I dont know how much interest their would be for this, i dont know that theres many users using it but id like to be able to see "playing now" info for sirius in webradio. on this link it shows playing now and past played bunch of songs the link has the channel number in it so substituting "channel=27" for whatever channel listening to gives info for each different channel. http://www.dogstarradio.com/search_playl...ur=&eampm=

theres also other ways of displaying the data from that website one page puts playing now for all channels on one page
http://www.dogstarradio.com/now_playing.php

theres also rss feeds i think this is better than scraping at least i could read them to my lcd but thats only in my pc
if any developers would like to do it i could offer a sirius online subscription for some time. im using webradio and siriusstreamer to play sirius.
Ryan

Attached is a beta of WebRadio which gets info from http://www.dogstarradio.com every 15 seconds (like the web site). Let me know how it goes

Notice the skin has changed for future capture of the now playing images from google and live365.

Martin

[ryanmc]

wow martin your amazing i woulda spent days hacking somethign together at best. i really appreciate your help and efforts as usual thank you. working very nice even has extra info looks like shows name!!