Hi all.
Been traveling this week, so I’ve been away from my ActiveE. I did take a few hours on Wednesday, in between flights to take the car out of “free” parking at LAX lot 6. So far, saved $68 for parking at LAX (1 $3 stay and the second a $65 stay.)
For those that don’t know. One of the side benefits to driving a fully electric car is LAX offers parking in two lots at the airport at no cost (Lot 1 and Lot 6). Additionally, charging is free. As of Wednesday, April 18, 2012. They were still the old style L2 chargers, BUT as I was leaving on my flight out that day, workmen were replacing a good number of these pictured to new Clipper Creek L2 chargers. (Lot 6 is pictured, ’cause I fly mainly United and American).
I’ll post an update later with pics of the new chargers if their upgraded when I get back to LAX tonight… (writing this blog entry in the air between NYC and LA).
As cool as those benefits are, I started writing this post to demonstrate some cool Sirius tips.
Tip 1 – Timeshifting of Sirius Radio –
Take a look at the video below –
It’s kinda cool. I use this feature when I listen to talk radio and I miss what was said…
Or, if you have music that you want to keep playing over and over.
Tip 2 – Favorites lists…
One of the nice things about Satellite radio is you can keep favorites lists so that if something you like is playing, it’ll pop up for you. I like to listen to NBA games while I drive home, so… I made a favorite for it. Additionally, I keep track of home teams, so I added the LA Kings as well. Just in case.
Of course… You have to start in Satellite Radio…
If you’re not on a channel that has your favorites on it, move the iDrive control to the left and then select favorites, and the items that are tagged with your favorites will pop up.
These icons on the left pop up, when you move to the left.
Once you select the favorites menu, then all these that match your favorites will pop up
You can then listen to whatever game or program you’re interested in…
Now, to STORE your favorites, you get that by going deeper into the program selected…
Here is what it looks like when you expand the selection –
You could select to store the channel (as indicated in the top portion) or select the various categories that are provided (as indicated in the second portion).
I selected and stored the NBA below.
Now, I repeated the process to store the LA Kings…
So, now that we’ve stored the NBA and LA Kings as favorites, the choices look like the following:
Needless to say. The included one year of satellite radio provides us with very good entertainment options during long commute home. Especially when traffic forces us to drive more “efficiently”…