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Use the app and stream it! Pay for a few yrs of subscription just for the cost of the module. Heck, if you got a car with XM buy the subscription for that and get the app for free. They just added free app with subscription last month.
This is what I did. Much less (as in way, Way, WAY LESS) expensive . . . . and it's portable from bike to bike to car to etc., etc, etc. Thus one Sirius subscription and all of your bikes and cars are covered.
With the Splitter I also have a 3.5mm jack in my glove box should I want to plug anything into that.
Have your dealer to authorize the AUX function on your BoomBox.
I have SirriusXM in my truck and I just use their app on my phone. When local I just plug it into the USB and put my phone in the glove box. When on the road I mount the phone to my bar and either run a cable to the phone (provide charging) or just stream Bluetooth, this allows me to change the station when I am bored with the station.
I stream from my phone that I mount on my bars. The only drawback to that versus having the module is that you don't have access to traffic and/or weather, which is nice to have if you're on a trip.
I've run into two downsides to using the cell phone app for Sirius. The first is that you need a good cell phone network signal (Duh!). For me, in the Los Angeles area, this isn't a problem and I often bluetooth Pandora though my audio systems because it's so easy. But get into even just the Malibu Hills or the San Gabriel or San Bernardino Mountains and things can get pretty sketchy, pretty quickly. When traveling out of town, particularly west of the Mississippi, it can be a bit of a trek from one town to the next. Unless and even if, you're on a major interstate, cell phone service is not always 100% reliable. The second is that while I have an unlimited data plan . . . . if you do not . . . . using streaming audio over time can get a bit spendy on your cell phone bill.
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