Is this the price we pay for multiple streams (on one account) to our Echoes? That seems unlikely, so I am
at whoever wrote the skill for SiriusXM. I presume this is SiriusXM...
SiriusXM Streaming on Alexa devices
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at whoever wrote the skill for SiriusXM. I presume this is SiriusXM...
More weirdness. I left SiriusXM streaming on my Dot on the main level. I went downstairs to play the same channel on my pair of Dots (for stereo) and my Echo Sub when an interesting song (new to me) came on. I cranked up the PC player to see what song it was. I didn't even hit play! Shortly thereafter, my stereo pair started playing NOISE. But my Dot upstairs continued unaffected. This behavior makes no sense to me.
A Fire Stick is considered mobile by SiriusXM so as I posted for mobile devices only one stream. On dot's and Echo's etc I have tried multiple streams with no problem and regularly we have three at one time. I do agree instead of saying Amazon devices it is clearer to say on Echo's and Dots.
(note - on their page they listed all the ways to listen, under mobile were Fire Sticks, under Amazon were Echo's etc, so they broke it out)
I did not test that. But I did play SiriusXM using one of my FireTV sticks, and it played just fine. But it showed no artist/title information, just like my Echos. Same for my Echo Show.
Well, then I don't understand why SiriusXM does this. I think one observer above speculated that you could have only 1 mobile device streaming at a time, but unlimited stationary devices such as all the Echoes in the house. But as you found out, other stuff that is stationary (such as your FireTV or my desktop PC) kills the stream(s) on my Echoes. I have observed that, when I examine what song is playing on my PC, even if I don't hit the "play" button in player.siriusxm.com, the stream to my Echo stereo Dots + Sub go to noise, after which time Alexa tells me "something went wrong". If I close the SiriusXM page quickly enough, other Echoes continue playing. So I have no idea what SiriusXM is doing. But it sure is annoying that I can't ask "Alexa, what song are you playing", and get anything more detailed than the channel name. This sucks.
Do you expect that Amazon can easily tell the difference between a smart TV and some other device?
They might be able to. Do you know for a fact that they can't?
I don't, but I can't help but think a Roku TV doesn't look a lot like a Roku device or that a Sony TV with Android TV looks a lot like a nVidia Shield.
For its part, a web browser details what it is running on pretty completely and an Echo device probably doesn't make a move without going through Amazon.
So why ask questions about something that you don't even know the answers? It only muddies the waters.
Actually a Roku TV and a Roku box show the same browser string when connecting to a streaming site.
Just tested it to one of the radio stations I run.
Here is a list of Browser Agent Strings.
deviceatlas.com
Just tested it to one of the radio stations I run.
Here is a list of Browser Agent Strings.
List of User-Agent strings
deviceatlas.com
Cool! My favorite Mr. Mister song is playing right now. But if I ask Alexa (via my stereo pair of Dots/sub) what is playing, she merely answers "Fun Tower Radio" and not "Broken Wings". That is what I want her to do when I play my favorite SiriusXM channel. Are you saying that this works correctly from an Echo Show?
