In the other direction, you can pair your Fire TV Stick 4K with an Amazon Echo device like an Echo Dot to enable hands-free voice control. You can even bring up live feeds of home security cameras like the Amazon Cloud Cam and Nest Cam IQ. Alexa also works with over 20,000 different home automation devices including smart lights, thermostats, and locks.
You can tell Alexa to play, pause, and navigate through Amazon streaming media and a small handful of third-party services. Your connected TV will display visual information to go with Alexa's spoken responses, like weather forecasts with cloud and rain icons, sports scores with team logos and individual period scores, and lists of movies with summaries and listings of availability by streaming service.Īlexa also enables voice control of media playback, your TV, and any compatible smart home devices you have. You can ask Alexa for general information or to search for media to watch or listen to on the Fire TV Stick 4K. Just press the microphone button on the remote and speak into the mic at the top to talk to Alexa (if you want hands-free Alexa in a media streamer out of the box, you'll need to get the Fire TV Cube). Nearly every big other big video name is present, including Apple TV, Crunchyroll, Disney+, HBO Go, Hulu, Netflix, Sling TV, Twitch, and Youtube.Īs a Fire TV device, the Fire TV Stick 4K has Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. Suggestions are obviously very Amazon-centric, but plenty of third-party apps and services are available, and the content search function aggregates across Amazon and several of those third parties. The main menu is arranged in large rows of apps and media, both personally organized by you and suggested by Amazon. The Fire TV experience is generally consistent across all Fire TV devices, from the non-4K Fire TV Stick to the Fire TV Cube to Fire Edition TVs. If you have Amazon Prime, though, you'll automatically get access to streaming media through Prime Music and Prime Video. You don't need a paid Amazon Prime account to use the Fire TV Stick 4K a regular, free Amazon account will work. After that, you can log in with your Amazon account and you're set.
Plug it into your TV, plug in the power adapter, then follow the instructions on your TV to connect the stick to Wi-Fi. Setting up the Fire TV Stick 4K is simple, and works just like setting up any other Fire TV device. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Nvidia Shield TV (2017) Review Setup
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