Monday, 14 May 2018

TiVo now rolling out Alexa support for its DVRs

TiVo is ready to launch integration with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. Today the company announced that its series 4 (Premiere), 5 (Roamio), and 6 (Bolt) DVR boxes are receiving an update that will let customers instruct an Alexa-enabled device in their living room to perform core functions like changing channels, launching a streaming app, skipping commercials, and more through voice commands. Alexa can also control playback and pause, fast forward, rewind, or jump back 8 seconds in the content you’re viewing. The rollout should be complete by June 1st.

But from the sounds of it, you can’t search for content, schedule recordings, or set up a OnePass season recording for TV shows by using Alexa. TiVo’s own Vox remote is still the way...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/14/17350656/tivo-amazon-alexa-update-voice-control-dvr

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/05/tivo-now-rolling-out-alexa-support-for.html

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