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Originally Posted by John F
An update...
I got my Echo and Harmony Hub around Christmas, and I'm relatively happy with it.
In the morning, I say "Alexa, good morning": The TV turns on and changes to the appropriate input, the Audio/Video receiver turns on and changes to the appropriate input, and the Echo tells me the weather report. I than say "Alexa, watch CNN on FireTV". When it is time to change channels, I say "Alexa, Watch WFSB". When I'm done, I say "Alexa, Goodbye", and the TV turns off. If I want to save data, I'll say "Alexa, Go home."
In the middle of the day, I say "Start up stereo" to listen to music: this turns on the AV receiver, sets the inputs, and turns on a bluetooth receiver. I than use my phone to control what I listen to. When I'm done, I say "shut down stereo".
In the evening, I say Turn on TV, and than use the Fire TV remote and voice control to channel surf.
If I want it to be, I can get Alexa to be >99% reliable.
If routines allowed me to control FireTV channel surfing, I would go from "relatively happy" to "happy".  |
When I first tried using the Apple remote (or an Echo) to change channels in Hulu with Live TV, Alexa would do it about half of the time. Now she totally fails. Either she says that channel does not exist or she says she is tuning to it but nothing happens. I still have to argue with her over actions for my various smart lighting bulbs. She is probably about 80% accurate with the lighting commands. But over the years since she was introduced she has gone up and down on accuracy. In December she was in top form, but now she blows chunks again. YMMV of course, an apparently does, but for me she is a long ways from being accurate enough to assume she can reliably do what she is said to be capable of.