Installing Sirius Stream On Nokia N800/N810

If you have an older N800 that's still running OS2007, upgrade to OS2008. The instructions for upgrading your OS can be found here.

The first step to installing sipie on your N800/N810 is getting root access on your internet tablet. You have two choices. You can either enable R&D mode or use the SSH method to gain root privileges. This is required to install the necessary packages.

* The SSH method is proven to work.

You can find the instructions for enabling R&D Mode here.

To use the SSH method you have to enable the Maemo Extras repository in your application manager.

You have to do this either way seeing we are going to install the dependencies for sipie from this repository.

ApplicationManager > Tools > Application catalogue…

Edit Maemo Extras
Uncheck disabled box.
Click OK and wait for the Refresh.

Once that is done, you can go back to the application manager and install OpenSSH. You could also go to the Maemo site and use the one click installer from your Nokia internet tablet.

During the install it will ask you to set a password. Once the install is complete you can open Xterm (Utilities > Xterm) and type the following at the command line:

ssh root@localhost

Enter your password. You should now have root privileges.
If you chose to enable R&D mode you can open Xterm (Utilities > Xterm) and enter the following at the command prompt:

sudo gainroot

Now that you have root privileges on our Nokia internet tablet, we can begin to install the dependencies for sipie.

At the command line enter the following:

apt-get install mplayer python2.5 python2.5-dev python2.5-setuptools wget

Next install the BeautifulSoup python extension by entering the following at the command line:

easy_install BeautifulSoup

<<< Recently This Has Not Been Working Right: But, I got it working again!!!

I got a link that showed up telling me to download the beautifulsoup.py program to my directory, so i downloaded it (i believe) to my sipie folder. Then, i just had to do the captcha file part again and it worked!!!

Now i just have to update my preset channels, because sirius changed their channel line-up and names on certain channels yesterday!!!

Now, you should still go through the whole process, without this part, but if you run into problems at the end of the process, come back and try this. >>>

Change to you home directory, type:

cd /home/user/MyDocs

Download sipie from the site listed below. The MPlayer buffer has been increased from 32 to 1024 in the cliPlayer.py script to avoid skipping. Other than that, there are no changes. A tar archive has been created so you can easily install sipie using wget.

Enter:

wget http://packratstudios.com/download/sipie.tar.gz

Untar the archive by entering the following command:

tar -xvzf sipie.tar.gz

Change to the sipie directory, enter:

cd sipie

Launch sipie:

python sipie.py

At this point you will be prompted for a Username and Password for Sirius, whether you are a subscriber or guest, your location, the stream you want to listen too (enter channels as they are listed in the Channel Guide, below), and the text of a CAPTCHA file used to verify you're human . If you are not a subscriber then you can sign-up for a free three day trial at Sirius.com. The stream is usually the name of the station you want to listen to.

Channel Guide

• 60svibrations
• 90salternative
• altnation
• area33
• backspin
• bbcradio1
• big80s
• bluecollarcomedy
• bluegrass
• boombox
• broadwaysbest
• buzzsaw
• chill
• classicrewind
• classicvinyl
• cnn
• coffeehouse
• cosmopolitanradio
• elvisradio
• ewtnglobal
• faction
• firstwave
• hairnation
• hardattack
• heartandsoul
• hiphopnation
• hotjamz
• howardstern100
• howardstern101
• jamon
• jazzcafe
• kidsstuff
• laughbreak
• leftofcenter
• marthastewartlivingradio
• maximradio
• metropolitanopera
• movineasy
• newcountry
• octane
• outlawcountry
• planetjazz
• playboyradio
• praise
• primecountry
• punk
• purejazz
• radiomargaritaville
• rawdog
• reggaerhythms
• revolution
• rumbon
• shade45
• siriusblues
• siriusdisorder
• siriusgold
• siriushits1
• siriusleft
• siriuslove
• siriuslysinatra
• siriusnflradio
• siriusoutq
• siriuspatriot
• siriuspops
• siriusstars
• soultown
• spa73
• spirit
• standardtime
• starlite
• supershuffle
• symphonyhall
• thebeat
• thebridge
• thecatholicchannel
• thepulse
• theroadhouse
• thespectrum
• thestrobe
• thevault
• thewho
• totally70s
• undergroundgarage
• universolatino

You can create Channel Shortcuts (so you don't have to re-type them each time) by adding them to the "Toolbar Shortcut" list. In Xterm, go to the top menu and click over to Toolbar Shortcuts and add in the Channels that you like best, in the following format:

howardstern100 should be written as:

h . o . w . a . r . d . s . t . e . r . n . 1 . 0 . 0 . KP_Enter (and so on - the periods and spaces are essential)...

By default the CAPTCHA file is saved to the root of your home directory. Unfortunately you can't see this directory in the file manager. In order to view the image file, enter the following in a new Xterm session. Don't close the original Xterm session.

Of course you'll have to repeat the method you used to gain root access in this new Xterm session (Enter: sudo gainroot but, once that is complete, enter the following to move the image file.

Enter:

mv /home/user/img*.* /home/user/MyDocs

Once this is done you can go to the File Manager and open the image file in the preview application. Once you have the text (yes it is case sensitive) you can return to your original Xterm session and enter it. Thankfully, you only have to go through this process once.

If everything went right you should start hearing your stream after about 45 seconds.

To end the stream and change stations you have to enter Ctrl+C. You also have to do this to exit the application.

To get Sirius to play each time with a shortcut, download Personal Menu and Rootsh.

In the Sirius Satellite Radio entry that you create in your Personal Menu, enter the following in the command line:

rootsh /home/user/MyDocs/sipie/sipie.py

Select only "Run In XTerminal?," do not select "Run As Root."

Go to the home screen of your Internet Tablet (iTab) and select the new "Sirius Satellite Radio" link you created. It should now either run through the login process or ask you to "Enter Stream: "… Enter one of the channel names, previously listed in the Channel Guide.

[Thanks to everyone that helped out with this!!!]