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@Jaguar figured out if I want to listen on my main 65" ROKU TV I can simply use the SiriusXM app on my Yamaha receiver.
~kidkrash
Roku 3800 testing
July 15, 2022
I did see a popup screen asking if I was still listening after streaming for many hours. Roku Bandwidth Saver was turned off. Therefore, this popup was generated by SXM. I did not capture the screen. There is no SXM option to turn off this warning. I had never seen this warning before. The audio never stopped while this message was displayed and no more errors were shown. I saw this message with previous release, 42.
Update SXM app. Test with build 44. Launch SXM. Select channel 27. Wait.
July 16, 2022
SXM ran 20 hours on Build 44 and crashed shortly after the screen below appeared. Pressing OK did remove the screen. Pressing OK in release 42 would not remove the message from the screen. This error handling is improved.
Post-crash, cleared out memory in order to restart. Exit using back button and hit OK on exit warning popup window. Re-launch SXM and update Tunestart to off and use Home key to exit the app to save setting.
Normally, when a program or script crashes, upon restart, you want to resume the process from where the crashed process stopped. If the cause of the crash has been fixed, this method would be valid. However, if the crash was caused by the bad data or bad logic, restarting with the original data and code will put the end user into an infinite loop until that user determines how to break the loop. Exiting the app using the back button or a full sign off will tell the app that you do not want to restart with the old data. If you attempt to re-launch immediately after a crash, you will see the app attempting to load data with the infamous spinning circle. The app may also be playing the audio from the channel where the crash occurred even though Autoplay on Startup is turned off. Tunestart will also be turned on after/during a crash.
Now launch SXM again. Received error message about favorites after 1st re-launch. Ignored.
Clean out memory and re-launched SXM and received “Sorry” error message above after 3.5 hours but no crash.
July 17, 2022
SXM crashed after 21 hours. Re-launched SXM after clearing memory as described above and set/saved Tunestart. Use a different SXM channel for testing.
July 18, 2022
SXM ran 18 hours on channel 745. Exit SXM. Updated Roku to use lower band of router to attempt to re-create crash at slower transmission rate. Re-launched to channel 27.
July 19, 2022
Screen had no graphics displayed after 16 hours but had normal audio output. Press down button and no change in screen. Pressed back button once and waited for screen to refresh. After about 30 seconds, opening screen for app appeared. No crash. The channel selection buttons within Favorites do not appear to refresh to match program content. Even the channel playing has the same track info as when the app launched on previous day. SXM has not crashed after 20 hours. At 20 hours and 48 minutes, audio stopped. Pressed down arrow and Sorry screen appeared. Pressed OK but still no audio. Used menu to choose different channel which started normal audio. SXM has been up for 27 hours so far but not on same channel.
Screen response to remote input slows the longer it streams. Screen seems to go to sleep at some point but audio still streams. The sleep feature may be SXM’s version of an unitended screen saver.
I found email addresses for SXM on Amazon in case you have an opinion on the product and prefer email to chat/voice. Here is one address, listenercare@siriusxm.com . For details, see https://www.amazon.com/SiriusXM-Radio-for-TV/dp/B01MSJH8DZ . SXM has no online forum other than here or on Reddit. This email address is nowhere on SXM’s site according to Dr Google.
Roku equivalent of above Amazon page for product, https://channelstore.roku.com/details/3d0554c24e9199f5e4f1565833076668/siriusxm This page could use more details. Whoever maintains this page could add more content such as what Amazon page contains per product where applicable. Roku doesn’t appear to have the same level of documentation for any channels compared to Amazon. Channel provider has the data for this page. Everyone tell Santa that customers want documentation.
I also found an interesting FAQ on SXM site that matches the popup warning I saw only once. SXM may have had a similar feature in previous releases of the app and removed it from 44 when it caused problems with inconsistent behavior. I recall seeing several posts suggesting to use the app on a computer to avoid the timeout. SXM claims there is a popup notice being sent every 90 minutes for the app. SXM’s rationale may provide insight into this problem.
