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Originally Posted by mlewis78
I just bought the Fire TV Cube (was down temporarily to $90). Had to buy HDMI cable separately, but it's a much better one than what came with the Fire TV box gen 1.
In the end, when I paired the Show 5 to the old fire tv, it played the sound for Amazon, Britbox and Acorn but Netflix was silent.
The new cube will not play sound from my TV but I was able to pair my gen 1 Echo and it plays audio for all shows, including Netflix. I have not set up the Alexa part of the cube, because I think it's going to mess with the Echo speaker I am using for audio. But when I talk to the Echo, the blue light comes on the cube as well.
I need a lot of streaming shows during this who-knows-how-long Trump Covid-19 virus pandemic. I'm in the epicenter, NYC.
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Some of the Echo devices have really good mics and thus great hearing, others, like my Show 5, are nearly deaf. But whenever I have multiple Echos close enough together where they can all hear my commands, I find that using different wake words for each helps. Echos are supposed to be able to use a proximity capability to determine which is closest and thus have that one respond to your command, but that doesn’t always work well. i currently have my Echo Plus 2 and my new Show 5 both about 2 to 3 feet from my recliner, so I use "Echo" for the Plus 3 wake word and "Alexa" for the Show 5 wake word and that seems to work really well.
I gave up trying to use Alexa voice commands to control my Fire TV streaming. Thhat was always a major fail when I tried it. It rarely took me to the specific channel I requested, and it typically gave me a bunch of ads rather than specific shows I requested. So like that feature, but I’ve never been able to use it with much success.