Sirius Radio streaming to your BlackBerry Bold (How To)

Posted on 16 December 2008, at 7:11 am, by Wayne Schulz

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Yesterday afternoon I had a few minutes in the office before dinner and decided to to tackle a task I thought was only for people with a lot more technical skills. I’m a diehard Sirius Radio Howard Stern listener. Until recently I’d been using two receivers at $10/mo each to listen at home and the office. This was wasteful so I cancelled the extra subscriptions. When I’m near a computer I stream Sirius over the Internet. The problem I had was there’s no official Sirius client for iPhone, BlackBerry or Windows Mobile that gives access to all channels.

My solution was to use Orb – a free service that streams audio and video remotely from your Internet connected Windows PC (there is NO Mac version). To use Orb you create an account, download a small ORB client to your Windows PC and download the uSirius software to setup your Sirius radio stream. This is all free except you MUST have a paid Sirius radio account with online access. The setup was remarkably easy – you can watch my (admittedly grainy poor) video that shows the service in use. To set it up on your BlackBerry – see the instructions in the link below which I used last night and found to be the most complete on the Internet at explaining the steps in detail.

Instructions: How To Stream Sirius to your BlackBerry

Tags | BlackBerry Devices, Mobile Phones, Sirius XM Satellite Radio

2 Comments For This Post

LARRY Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Wayne- I followed your instructions and it seems to work well for my bold at home on Wi-fi-but as soon as I leave the house- and try to connect the media player just hangs and says its loading but never does. I live in the NY metro area. Do I need a media plan with ATT? Or am I missing something? Thank you for your time and information. (I too am a die hard stern listener)
malbert Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Larry,

When you are home and connected via your Wi-fi. Therefore the BB Orb client is connecting to your PC on your internal network. I would guess you have a firewall issue preventing your BB Orb client from connecting to your home PC from over the internet.