Good info and thanks. Something changed, as I also just asked AI and the $14/month answer I got once before from a Rivian person no longer seems to apply. I would have no need for any data plan in a car, so I was surprised when they previously told me I needed one for Sirius. Glad to know this is not the case now. Thanks again.
We travel in remote places. Glad we have XM. I suspend the service when we get back home.
From my light reading and AI analysis of Rivian's FCC filings, I don't see any that include that ability. So far, the offerings for this require hardware compatibility, though ASTS promises more (which is currently vaporware).
I'm not an XM user and have no interest in it, so I haven't looked specifically at this. However, since there's no direct receiver in any Rivian, you need some form of data access to use it. You need to pay for/have an XM internet subscription, PLUS have to have data access for the car. That can be done by paying Rivian for their in-car service, connecting the car to your phone's hotspot, or a Starlink. The only seamless and super-easy option in my testing is the Rivian service. I tried using my phone hotspot and Starlink for car services, and it was flaky. This was over a year ago however.
I didn’t mean through Rivian. I meant through your phone as a hotspotFrom my light reading and AI analysis of Rivian's FCC filings, I don't see any that include that ability. So far, the offerings for this require hardware compatibility, though ASTS promises more (which is currently vaporware).
I'm not an XM user and have no interest in it, so I haven't looked specifically at this. However, since there's no direct receiver in any Rivian, you need some form of data access to use it. You need to pay for/have an XM internet subscription, PLUS have to have data access for the car. That can be done by paying Rivian for their in-car service, connecting the car to your phone's hotspot, or a Starlink. The only seamless and super-easy option in my testing is the Rivian service. I tried using my phone hotspot and Starlink for car services, and it was flaky. This was over a year ago however.
Edit to add: Starlink on standby/limited mode is cheaper than Rivian's service and works everywhere. But there's some extra work in setting that up.
Got it, this thread has gone so many directions, I wanted to be clear. I found that annoying enough to pay Rivian, but again, that was many updates ago. I'd love to hear how it works for you. I have 60GB of hotspot on my phone, so plenty to stream.
That seems to highlight the confusion. I just asked AI about this and it said that Rivian will not require me to buy a data plan just to use Sirius. They are allowing the connection.
This is where it gets messy. I don't want to have to use/touch my phone to open a Sirius app every time I get in the car or use the phone's data. It's so easy now in my X3 with a satellite antenna. I just start the car and the radio plays Sirius as it was previously set.
Unfortunately due to the various hallucinations and limits of LLMs, especially ChatGPT, this might or might not be true. It's possible that XM has a deal with Rivian/AT&T to stream their stuff without any data plan, and my post could be wrong.
In case you weren't aware, starlink in standby mode no longer works while in motion.
Oh, that's right, that's another feature you get with the doubling in price.
The satellites capability availability in smart phones works for SMS and sometimes voice It won't work for streaming..
