Nice insert there Dan!
Yeah, that is what I am doing with Pandora. Beware the cheap Sirius is a "come on". I was using the so called "cheap" service, and then when I went to check on my account(s) I found they'd started hitting me $40 month PER CAR! No warning, no email "Hey your subscription is going to renew at $XX per month. NOTHNG. Even the jerks at Comcrap (XFinity) give you that much!
$40 x 2 cars = $80/mo.
Never had that problem and been using XM and now Sirius XM for over ten years.
I've looked at those but could never figure out how they connect audio wise to the car. So, does it connect bluetooth to the car and then how do you connect your phone to it for Android Auto?
State of NY has filed a lawsuit against SiriusXM alleging fraudulent business practices by making to hard to cancel.
But satellite is the way of the future...there's no way people will have access to devices that stream any content of their choosing without beaming it up to space first...
And see, herein lies the rub. Last time I renewed (less than a year ago) they gave me some great rate (IIRC like $10 per car per month). Somewhere down the line they switched it (even though it was a rate promised for a full year) and I would now have to go back over my CC statements to see when they pulled this bait and switch on me. And that $10 per car rate took me close to 2 hours haggling on the phone with their agent! I'm over that crap. The Pandora rate has no "gotchas" it's just about $4 month for yearly service fee. I can live with that. Sound quality is just as good as Sirius as well. And I can make my own channels (or do a "mix") which is what I do. So one minute you will hear Toby Mac, or Mandissa, the next Gordon Lightfoot, the next something from the 50's DooWop, then maybe a 60's hit, then Motown, Soul, Black Gospel, and so on. I love it. And my wife and I can both listen to different things. So honestly I love it
So here is how mine works. It connects through it's own WIFI signal to my phone. My phone stays connected to my car through BT. So if I go on the screen of the head unit and select I
Radio, the phone streams it to the car but the head unit controls the phone. If I decide I just want to listen to a Cubs game on AM, I simply turn off the car's BT stream, select AM670. If someone calls me I can use the head unit to answer the call, my steering wheel button, or what have you and it works as it always has. Pretty seamless. The unit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ9CWRVF?tag=tvwb-20 has a built in dash cam and 64Gb memory on constant loop, it also comes with a rear camera which I will mount when I have time. THat camera can activate the screen if you connect a trigger wire to the backup lights, but even if you don't the unit will constantly record on a loop from both cameras. It also has a G sensor. If it senses a collision or some abnormality it flags and saves the recording for later use. There are units like it (with fewer features or not same quality but functional) for as little as $80. Bottom line I am prett impressed
For good reason. They sound better. So do vacuum tube amps
