SiriusXM Connection

[lynch800]

Hi, Just curious if it's possible to get SiriusXM working again. This was my most used button and would love to have this back.

[tostmann]

Thanks — here's the honest picture.

SixBack's job is deliberately narrow: get your six hardware buttons back without Bose's cloud. It's not going to grow into a full streaming-integration platform or a big web app, so a native SiriusXM source isn't something I'll build into it. Your old SiriusXM button worked through Bose's cloud account link, which is gone.

That said, SiriusXM isn't a dead end the way some services are. It has no official public API, but a third party already built a bridge: SeriousCast (https://github.com/schlarpc/SeriousCast) logs in with your own SiriusXM account and re-serves a channel as a standard SHOUTcast/MP3 internet-radio stream. That's exactly the kind of plain stream URL a preset can point at. (Steer clear of HLS-based clients like sxm-client — the speaker has no HLS decoder, so HLS won't play.)

To be straight about the rough edges: it's unofficial and against SiriusXM's terms, it can break whenever SiriusXM changes its auth, you run and maintain the proxy yourself, and SixBack's built-in stream validation currently blocks LAN addresses — so it's not a one-click flow.

But the building block exists, and since SixBack's source is open, anyone who wants to make this smoother is welcome to — fire away, PRs welcome.