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How to control your TV with Alexa

Alexa can practice a lot of things, including control your TV. Using Amazon's voice assistant, you tin search for programs, movies, actors, alter channels, look up content by type or genre (such as kids or sci-fi), and fifty-fifty control playback of your DVR. What'south more than, there are multiple ways to do so.

We'll walk you lot through them all. And if you've got fifty-fifty more questions, check out our how to use a Fire TV Stick guide to eek out every bit of potential from Amazon'south affordable streaming stick.

How to control your Fire TV with Alexa

If you have a Fire TV, Burn down TV stick, or an Amazon Fire Tv set Edition, you can control its actions via Alexa in two ways.

Using the remote control (volition only piece of work with 2d-generation and subsequently Fire TV devices)

Step 1: Turn your TV on, and change the input to the Fire TV (or Fire TV stick). Y'all should run across the Fire Boob tube dwelling screen on your Television.

Footstep 2: Printing and hold the microphone push that came with your Burn Boob tube device (the first-generation Burn down TV does non have this button, and so you will need to apply an Alexa-enabled device; these instructions are below). A bluish line should announced at the summit of your TV. Speak your request. Note that you don't have to say "Alexa" earlier making your asking when using the remote command.

How to control your cablevision or satellite TV using Alexa

If y'all have an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or some other Alexa-enabled device, you lot tin can control Fios, Borderland, Optic Hub, Tivo, and Dish systems using nothing but your voice. In order to exercise so, you lot have to link your Alexa device to the cable box.

Step one: Open up the Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet.

Step 2: Select Settings from the bottom of the left-mitt menu.

Footstep 3: Select TV & Video.

Step 4: In some cases, y'all will need to enable an Alexa skill from your cable or satellite provider. Follow the steps to do so in the Alexa app.

Step 5: Select your device. (In this case, we're using Fire TV every bit an example.)

Step 6: Select Link A Device (or Link a Fire Television receiver). Then, select the device you want to control, and press Continue.

Step vii: Select the Alexa device you want to utilise to control your Television. A particular Alexa device tin can only control one TV at a time, then brand certain the device is in the aforementioned room as the TV y'all want to control.

Step viii: After yous've selected your Alexa device, scroll downward to the lesser and printing the Link Devices button. You should at present be able to control your TV using your Alexa device.

Things you can say

You can search for programs by name, genre, actor, and more. For case, y'all can ask for movies with Tom Cruise, and the Fire Tv will bring upwardly a list of movies he'south starred in. Other searched include kid-friendly movies, scientific discipline-fiction, Westerns, and sports.

If you take one of the cable or satellite services listed above, y'all tin can likewise ask Alexa to tune to a detail aqueduct, play things in your DVR, and skip ahead and back through programs.

For more than information, check out our guide on How to Connect Alexa to Dish TV.

How to Control Your Tv using a Logitech Harmony Remote and Alexa

If you don't have 1 of the cablevision subscribers listed above (or fifty-fifty if you exercise), you tin as well control your TV using Alexa and a Logitech Harmony Remote. This method also gives you control over the volume, lets you switch between different inputs, and more. Here is our guide to connecting the Harmony Remote to Alexa.

For more than Alexa-related tips, tricks, and how-tos, check out our complete guide to Alexa.

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Michael A. Prospero is the deputy editor at Tom's Guide overseeing the home, smart home, drones, and fitness/wearables categories, every bit well as all ownership guides and other evergreen content. When he'south not testing out the latest running lookout, skiing or training for a marathon, he's probably using the latest sous vide machine or another cooking gadget.