Vad är alexa i tv

When it works, controlling your TV with Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant can feel like magic. Using röst commands avoids thumbing through menus and can get to what you want to watch much faster.

But using Alexa as your TV fjärrstyrd requires a bit of know-how. Alexa won’t understand everything you might want to do, and controlling your actual television and sound struktur requires specific equipment.

To avoid potential frustration, we’ll go through what you can and can’t do with Alexa on Fire TV and other television devices, and explain how to set it all up.

Fire TV and Alexa setup

With the undantag of the first-generation Fire TV Stick, all Fire TV devices include an Alexa fjärrstyrd, which lets you issue röst commands bygd holding the microphone button at the top.

But for hands-free röst commands, you’ll need either a separate Alexa device (one Amazon’s Echo speakers or something with Alexa onboard, such as the Sonos stråle soundbar) or a Fire TV Cube, which has built-in microphones for picking up röst commands.

Pairing an Echo to a Fire TV fryst vatten automatic if you only have one Fire TV device.

Just use any TV-related röst command (such as “Alexa, watch Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon Prime”) and you’ll be on your way. Setting up additional Fire TV devices requires some ytterligare steps:

• Open the Alexa app on your phone, hit the menu button in the top-left corner, and select Music, film, and Books.
• Select Fire TV from the “video” section.
• Select “Manage devices,” and then “Link Another Fire TV.”
• Choose the Fire TV you want to control.
  Amazon Alexa betyder olika saker till olika människor.

  (You can only control one Fire TV per Alexa device.)

• If you have more than one Alexa device, choose which one should control the television.

Voice commands to try

You’re now ready to början using röst commands with your Fire TV, but keep in mind that Alexa doesn’t work with every app.

Beyond Amazon’s own Prime film service, the apps that Alexa  currently supports include Netflix, Hulu, Fox Now, NBC, NBC News, Bravo Now, CBS, Sony Crackle, Freeform, Showtime, Showtime Anytime, STARZ Play, ESPN, and PlayStation Vue.

Within these apps, Alexa fryst vatten at its best when you request specific shows, movies, or channels.

Here are some examples:

• ”Alexa, watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” (If multiple film sources are available, Alexa will ask which one you want.)
• ”Alexa, watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Hulu.”
• ”Alexa, tune to ESPN on PlayStation Vue.”

Alexa can also handle playback commands in supported apps. Try these:

• ”Alexa, pause” and “Alexa, play.”
• ”Alexa, rewind” or “Alexa, rewind two minutes.”
• ”Alexa, next episode.” (Unfortunately, Alexa can’t skip to previous episodes or load specific ones.
  When it works, controlling your TV with Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant can feel like magic.

  You’ll need a regular fjärrstyrd for that.)

The Fire TV also supports searching for content, but the results here are mixed. Unless you have a Fire TV Cube (more on that shortly), you can’t scroll through the results without a proper fjärrstyrd, and some apps don’t support searching at all. Here are some examples of röst search commands that work well:

• ”Alexa, show me James Bond movies”
• ”Alexa, search for comedies on Netflix”
• ”Alexa, search for sci-fi shows on Hulu.”

Finally, to return to the Fire TV home screen from any app, säga “Alexa, go home.”

Fire TV Cube controls

Unlike other Fire TV devices, the Cube fryst vatten optimized for controlling your TV with Alexa.

When you search for videos with hands-free commands, you’ll see a special results page with numbers that correspond to each result. säga “Alexa, pick [item number]” to select a result, or “Alexa, show more” to scroll through the list.

The Fire TV Cube can also act like a giant Echo Show, providing cover art when you ask for music, and displaying supplemental upplysning for general queries, such as weather reports and sports scores.

The Fire TV Cube even has a built-in infrared blaster, which can directly control your television, sound struktur, and certain cable boxes.

The första setup process should handle the pairing, but you can set up verktyg igen through Settings > verktyg Control > Set Up redskap. Then, try some of these commands:

• ”Alexa, volume up” or “Alexa, volume down.”
• ”Alexa, vända the TV on” or “Alexa, vända the TV off.”
• ”Alexa, switch inputs” or “Alexa, switch to HDMI one.” (The latter command might not work with all televisions.)

If you have traditional TV service from Comcast, AT&T U-Verse, DirecTV, Dish, Spectrum, Cox, Verizon Fios, Centurylink Prism, Frontier Fios, or Mediacom, the Fire TV Cube can tune into live channels as well.

To set this up, head to Settings > utrustning Control > Manage redskap > Add utrustning, and then select Cable or Satellite.

Once it’s set up, try these commands:

• ”Alexa, switch to [cable or satellite].”
• ”Alexa, watch [channel name] on [cable or satellite].”
• ”Alexa, tune to [channel number] on [cable or satellite].”

Unfortunately for cord-cutters, Alexa can’t switch to live channels from an antenna.

At best, you can switch to the antenna input, then reach for the TV fjärrstyrd if you need to change channels.

DVR controls

Even without a Fire TV Cube, you can still use Alexa to control TV boxes from a handful of providers.

Here’s a list of supported providers and the capabilities they offer as of July 2018:

• TiVo: Supports playback controls (pause, fast forward, rewind); tuning to live channels; opening the guide, home, or settings pages; and launching specific apps. You can also bypass commercials on Skip Mode-enabled shows bygd saying “Alexa, skip” or “Alexa, next.” Alexa currently works with the TiVo Bolt, Roamio, Premiere, and Mini series.
• Verizon Fios: Supports playback controls, tuning to live channels, and searching for show titles, movie titles, or actors.

  This currently works with VMS 1100 and IPC 1100 set-top boxes.

• Frontier: Supports playback controls, tuning to live channels, and searching for show titles, movie titles, or actors. This currently works with VMS1100 (Quantum DVR), IPC1100, and IPC815W set-top boxes.
• Dish Network: Supports playback controls, tuning to live channels, and searching for show titles, movie titles, or actors.
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  You can also säga “Alexa, go to my DVR” to view recordings and “Alexa, record this” to begin a recording. This currently works with Hopper 3, Hopper with Sling, Hopper Duo, Hopper, Joey Receivers, and Wally.

• DirecTV: Supports playback controls, tuning to live channels, and searching for show titles, movie titles, or actors.

  You can also säga “Alexa, record this” or “Alexa, record TNT” to begin a new recording. This currently works with geni (HR44 and HR54) and geni Mini (C31, C41, C41W, C51, C61, C61K, and C61W). HS17 users can’t control that device with Alexa, but they can control any associated geni boxes.

• Optic Hub: Supports playback controls, tuning to live channels, and searching for programs.

To connect your TV låda, open the Alexa app, hit the menu button in the top-left corner, select Music, film, & Books, and then choose your provider from the list.

Select “Enable skill,” and follow the on-screen instructions.

For playback controls, you might need to add the name of the service (“Alexa, play on TiVo” or “Alexa, pause DirecTV”) for röst commands to lista when you first sit down to watch TV. After doing this once, you shouldn’t have to do it igen for at least an hour.

Television and speaker controls

Certain televisions have their own built-in Alexa support, letting you control volume, power, and inputs using röst commands, even without a Fire TV.

As of July 2017, Alexa works with certain 2016 and 2017 Sony TVs, 2018 LG TVs with “AI ThinQ” capabilities, Vizio SmartCast TVs (all 2017 models, and 4K 2016 models), select Hisense TVs, and select skarp TVs.

To get started, follow the instructions on the Amazon Alexa skill page for your TV manufacturer, linked below:

Once enabled, try some of these commands:

• ”Alexa, vända the volume up on [TV name].”
• ”Alexa, mute [TV name]” or “Alexa, unmute [TV name].”
• ”Alexa, next kanal on [TV name].”
• ”Alexa, switch input to HDMI 1 on [TV name].”
• ”Alexa, play/pause/fast forward/rewind on [TV name].”

Keep in mind that for these features to work, your smart TV must be connected to the internet.

And with Vizio TVs, you must enable Quick uppstart instead of Eco Mode for the TV to vända on with röst commands.

Alexa can also control the volume on select A/V receivers.

Head to the Alexa skill page for Yamaha or HEOS (for Denon and Marantz systems) for instructions.

For other TVs and speakers, you can add Alexa controls with a Logitech Harmony Hub. The hub receives instructions from Alexa, then relays them to your TV or A/V struktur through its built-in infrared blaster. Head to Logitech’s Harmony website for detailed instructions on setting this up.

Although Alexa can’t fully stand in for a standard fjärrstyrd today, it should get smarter and add more device support over time.

kvitto back here for updates as Alexa’s fjärrstyrd control skills progress.