Amazon Alexa Plays Nice With Sony 4K TVs

Lost the remote control? Perhaps you should but ask Alexa to change the channel or turn the volume upwards; Amazon'southward personal banana this week expanded to TVs and the company's own media streamers.

Sony'due south 2022 lineup of 4K HDR televisions with Android TV now play overnice with Alexa. Users tin can at present enquire Alexa to turn on their Goggle box, raise or lower the volume, play, pause, cease, fast frontwards, switch inputs, and change channels.

Sony TVs and Alexa

"Vocalisation control is a natural fashion to interact with applied science in one's home," Sony said in a news release. Those with an Alexa-enabled device like the Amazon Echo, Repeat Show, or Echo Dot and a compatible Sony ready can now just say: Alexa, turn on my Living Room Goggle box; Alexa, set the volume to 60 on my kitchen Telly; or Alexa, change channel to CNN on my chamber Goggle box.

Meanwhile, Logitech is making it easier to control Harmony-connected devices via Alexa. Instead of saying "Alexa, ask Harmony to turn on the Television," y'all can at present but say "Alexa, plow on the Tv set."

"If you ask Alexa to plow on your Harmony Activity, such as 'Alexa, turn on the Goggle box,' 'plough on ESPN,' or 'plough on Netflix,' then subsequent commands such equally 'Alexa, turn up the volume,' 'Alexa, break,' or 'Alexa, tune to channel number 29,' volition all seamlessly be routed through Logitech Harmony," Logitech wrote in a news release. "That's how intuitive information technology is."

Logitech Harmony owners with the Harmony — Optimized for Smart Abode Alexa skill already enabled can commencement using these new commands immediately. If you lot don't yet take this skill, enable it via the Alexa app.

Finally, as of this week, you can now control Amazon Burn down TV devices via Alexa. This fashion, you can easily queue upwards Transparent even if you misplace your Fire Television set remote.

About Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's good on fettle and smart domicile products. Teaching yoga for well-nigh 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fettle trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness preparation machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.