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

But using Alexa as your TV remote requires a bit of know-how. Alexa won’t understand everything you might want to do, and controlling your actual television and sound system 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.
…
Read full post here:
https://www.techhive.com/article/3293401/how-to-control-your-tv-with-alexa.html