I have not yet been able to get Alexa to use a sleep timer with my Harmony. She says thatr she set the sleep timer in ....mins, but nothing happens. Has anyone had any luck.
DIRECTV Supports Amazon Alexa
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I would say probably not, or at least not for a long time. After spending a lot of time looking up info on these smart speakers Amazon and Google seem to be taking two different approaches.
Amazon is going for the home control/smart home functionality segment as evident by the number of skills are available on the platform and multitude of items that can be controlled by the Echo. They really want to make it a smart home hub, plus integrate it with other Amazon service like Amazon Music and Audible.
Google is more after the personal assistant aspect, which is why I’m thinking they didn’t give it a human sounding name, just Google Assistant. Calendars, reminders, news/sports run downs, asking questions and having it pull from their own search results. Plus data mining. Google is all about data mining.
Not saying that there isn’t a lot of overlap between the two, or Amazon is terrible with providing data and Google is terrible at home control, it just seems like at this time, that is where each company is going with their platform.
Amazon is going for the home control/smart home functionality segment as evident by the number of skills are available on the platform and multitude of items that can be controlled by the Echo. They really want to make it a smart home hub, plus integrate it with other Amazon service like Amazon Music and Audible.
Google is more after the personal assistant aspect, which is why I’m thinking they didn’t give it a human sounding name, just Google Assistant. Calendars, reminders, news/sports run downs, asking questions and having it pull from their own search results. Plus data mining. Google is all about data mining.
Not saying that there isn’t a lot of overlap between the two, or Amazon is terrible with providing data and Google is terrible at home control, it just seems like at this time, that is where each company is going with their platform.
I’ve been using Alexa to control my directv for several months now. There are several tutorials online that show you how to build your own skill for this.
Interesting I’ll have to find the tutorials your talking about and watch it before I do it Thanks
I couldn’t post the link but the one I followed was done by Brandon Kleszynski. It is pretty straightforward if you have some programming experience.
Looks like theres multiple people showing that its already working in this thread.
Your not gonna find a skill for it yet, but theres information on how to get it to work.
Apple needs to get att to add Siri access. If you can search the app by voice you should be able to change channels by voice.
Wish I knew... they sent out the release to retailers and then pulled it at the last minute.
Makes zero sense as I understand it works on the Alexa Cube.
Makes zero sense as I understand it works on the Alexa Cube.
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