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That’s it. Your echo can now turn on your TV and change channels. “Alexa, turn on HGTV” will turn on all of the devices and tune to the correct channel (or if everything is on, it just changes the channel). “Alexa, turn off HGTV” will turn off all of the devices. I also have harmony Activity called The TV, so I can say “Alexa, turn on/off the TV”
Yes, I think that voice controlled TV and setting up a “movie scene” environment is one of the biggest “wow” factors to impress family and friends. Here is my setup below:
I have a MacMini computer in my setup and I used a solenoid connected to a switch to turn it on.
When I got into SmartThings, one of the things that I wanted to do was to automate my media center. My system is not too overly complicated but here’s what needed to happen:
Turn off and on certain lights
Set a color scene to my hue bulbs
Turn on the amplifier
Turn on the TV
Turn on the Mac Mini that I use to run Kodi (XBMC)
Voice activate the ON/OFF sequence
Integrate with Harmony Home Control remote
Make sure that I have WAF
First, I want to thank many developers and coders who came up with device types and smartapps to accomplish my goals. And of course this active community that helped in various ways along the way.
The tough part was figuring out how to turn on the Mac Mini that has an electronic “ON” button that requires a physical press to make it work. I decided to go “old scho…
