SiriusXM SXPL1H1 Onyx Plus Satellite Radio with Home Kit – Hear SiriusXM on Your Home Stereo or Powered Speakers

Good product. It works great.. I suggest downloading the manual from SiriusXM. It is very good and is a big help in setting up the radio. This kit has an antenna with a cable long enough to reach into my attic. It all works. Great audio..

This is a good satellite radio that is a great satellite radio with a few additions. The radio itself has a full color display, can store up to 20 preset channels, and can rewind and replay live satellite radio. The radio can be played through an existing radio using an AUX cable or by using the built-in FM transmitter. I play mine using the built-in FM transmitter which works flawlessly once you locate an unused FM frequency. I leave the car mount in my car and remove the satellite radio and store it and a remote control in a No Snooping Allowed Faraday Bag (2 Pack), RFID Signal Blocking Bag Shielding Pouch Wallet Case (sold on Amazon) when not in use.The Onyx comes a car installation kit, however I purchased a different mount than the self-adhesive mount included in the kit. I opted for a Low Profile Drinks Cup Holder Mount for Sirius XM Onyx Plus from Charger City sold on Amazon. It provides a really good grip in any cup holder and securely holds the Sirius XM Onyx in place.The installation instructions for the Onyx Plus recommends mounting the antenna outside the vehicle. Unless you are a professional installer, most people are not up to the task or thrilled about routing the antenna wire through moulding and weatherstripping in order to mount the antenna outside the vehicle. Not that I couldn't do it, but my biggest concern is the antenna getting damaged or tampered with and having to go through the whole installation process again. The Car Windshield Suction Cup Antenna Mount for Sirius / XM Radio from MFX2 sold on Amazon is a great alternative which provides a neat and professional looking way to mount the antenna inside your vehicle. The suction cup on this antenna mount provides a strong hold and the magnetic strips included with the mount do a great job holding the antenna in place. In most areas I get full signal strength, including the rural area in which I live. I recently traveled from Virginia to the U.P. of Michigan and back and had excellent reception most of the trip.I also bought a SXIR2 Universal Remote Control fit for SiriusXM Onyx Plus from PERFASCIN sold on Amazon. The remote works perfectly with Onyx Plus.The Onyx Plus is a nice package for anyone looking to add satellite radio to an existing vehicle or for anyone wanting to be able to move the radio from one vehicle to another. I recommend another vehicle mounting kit, a cup mount, and windshield antenna mount if you plan to move the radio from one vehicle to another. Sirius offers several introductory priced subscription packages and also offers a student and military discount.

A fine little radio, great tone, easy to install.

Sadly that radio resp that Radio ID was not eligible for the three months trial. Not a big deal as the normal trial costs $1 which I took.Installation of the antenna and running the cable inside the car hidden in the Cable fixtures was easy.Radio got his decryption code from the satellite in minutes and so long 3/3 bars of receptor - eben 1-3 seconds under a bridge does not interrupt.Sound output over the AUX plug to the car stereo is good but as it is Sirius XM you hear slight compression artefacts but ok - i am a bit picky here. The uninterrupted radio while driving in remote areas compensates this 100%. I am often in regions with no or bad cellphone reception so this is a real win for me!One minus: Why not an USB powered version? Why needing a 12V cigarette lighter socket for itself?Luckily my car has two of them.

I turned off my Wifi permanently, replacing it with ethernet connections for my computer and TV (I use Firestick with an ethernet adapter for TV) after going down the rabbit hole of EMF risks.I wanted to listen to music through my low end, kinda old Bose Wave radio, but couldn’t figure out a way to get mostly ad free music of a particular genre (jazz for me ) without Wifi.In my Wifi days I’d just stream music from Pandora or Spotify on my iPhone and use an aux cable to connect the phone to the Bose, but obviously that wasn’t an option for me without a Wifi connection to stream music on the phone (Actually I’d gotten rid of the smartphone anyway in my efforts in the direction of digital minimalism so I had neither a smartphone nor a wifi connection).I considered streaming music on my Mac (which is connected to internet with an ethernet cable ) and using an auxiliary cable to connect the Mac to the the old Bose, but I use my Mac for everything, and am always changing locations with it, so I didn’t want to be attached to the radio with an aux cable.I’m just explaining my exact gear and thought process in case anyone else is tech challenged like me and trying to figure out the same issue.Oh also - I live out in the middle of nowhere and get only one station consistently on regular FM radio - a country station - so as I considered options for music, one of the many unknowns was whether I could even get satellite radio stations out here (again, I’m tech challenged, and did not understand signal strength of satellite versus regular am/fm and all that nonsense).Anyway! Enter the Sirius radio with home kit. I took the plunge. Set up is easy. Directions spell it out. You will NEED to connect the Sirius& home kit to speakers (NOT included!) to listen to music. Just emphasizing this because, again, this wasn’t obvious to me.Anyway after getting the Sirius plugged in and sitting in the HomeKit dock, I connected it to my old radio Bose Wave radio using an aux to aux cable; you may need to make sure you have one of these if you intend to use a wired connection between the Sirius and the system you’ll listen to the Sirius through. I think you can use bluetooth to connect instead, but my Bose Wave doesn’t even have Bluetooth capability - so check if your radio/speakers do if that’s how you intend to connect your stereo system/speakers to the Sirius.Once the Sirius is powered on and everything, the screen will prompt you to do next steps - you have to create a Sirius account online, choose the subscription you want (I think the radio included a cheap or free one for a few months when I bought mine), and there is a period of 30 minutes to an hour between finishing this process and getting music. I got super frustrated because I thought I’d done something wrong in this interval, and would have to get in touch w customer service, but thankfully that wasn’t the case.Look online at the channel guide to figure out what you want to listen to; if you haven’t used satellite radio before there’s a little learning curve with figuring out the stations and the remote.Anyway I love the Sirius so much. Having round the clock music is a game changer for my mood. I’m so much happier! The signal is great. I’ve had zero issues.I highly recommend this product!