If you have fire TV cube along with Amazon Echo then it’s a great news for you that now you can easily control your fire TV using Alexa voice command. Most importantly it doesn’t matter which Echo model you have you will get access to view or control your Fire TV.
Additionally, if your smart TV supports HDMI- CEC you are lucky enough to power your smart TV on from just by saying simple fire TV commands.
How you can connect Fire TV to an Amazon Echo speaker
If you have only one Fire TV then the task of connecting is a lot easier for You. Just command “Alexa, watch money heist” and it will automatically find your Fire TV and pair with it. So you don’t need to go through any manual steps.
However, if you have more than one Fire TV then you have to do this pairing manually in the Alexa app. Let’s get to the steps to connect your Fire TV with Alexa.
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- Launch the Alexa app.
- Click more.
- Scroll down and click TV and video.
- Then click Fire TV.
- Select the Fire TV you want to connect.
And you are all done with connecting your Fire TV with Alexa.
As it is mentioned earlier that you will be able to control it via Alexa but you can not do additional important things such as turning TV on or off, increasing the volume or switching to HDMI 2.
But Amazon has made a solution for you and that is the new Fire TV Blaster which directly gets connected with your Alexa and give you hands-free control over your Fire TV. And it costs just £34.99.
So you can give it a try if you don’t want to control your Fire TV manually anymore.
