drcollie

I have had my 991.1 (2014) for four years now, and have tried the bluetooth hookup (Spotify, iTunes, etc) via phone, etc...all that nonsense and would really like to just mainline XM into the base radio unit. I found this kit - anyone have experience with it OR can recommend an alternate? (I will self-install whatever it may be)

https://www.vaistech.com/product/gsr-061-w-tuner-kit/

TIA for any info....

marinb

Another option, which works decent, that I'm using in one of my other cars, is to use one of those Alexa in the Car solutions. I'm currently using a Garmin Speak, which you can instruct to play music from Amazon Music, Pandora, and Sirius XM (and supposedly Spotify is coming soon). This works reasonably well for Sirius as long as you can remember the names of the stations that you like.

The connection is a bit convoluted, but it works: 1) Connect Phone to Car via BT, 2) Connect Garmin Speak to Phone via BT, 3) Use Alexa voice prompts, 4) Music streams over phone data connection (not hotspot, just standard cellular data), 5) Music plays through car speakers (assuming Source is set to BT Audio).

drcollie

That's interesting, have not heard of that - technology changes so fast. I will look into it. Thanks