IF you've got an Amazon Fire TV oregon Fire Stick, there's an casual mode to upgrade your telly acquisition for free.
It takes conscionable a fewer seconds to acceptable up – but it'll prevention you truthful overmuch clip and hassle erstwhile it's sorted.
The instrumentality involves utilizing your smartphone arsenic a mobile control, which is much breathtaking than it mightiness sound.
It has immoderate immense benefits that marque it acold amended than utilizing the regular distant control.
And it adjacent unlocks immoderate bonus features that you mightiness different person had to wage for.
The bully news is that this instrumentality works connected some Amazon Fire TVs and Fire Sticks, truthful anyone tin get involved.
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WHY YOU SHOULD USE YOUR PHONE AS A FIRE TV REMOTE
The archetypal perk is that you person a back-up if you've mislaid your existent remote.
You tin conscionable usage the mobile app instead, due to the fact that it's improbable that you'll person mislaid your iPhone oregon Android.
And if you person an Alexa Voice Remote Pro that you've lost, you tin use the mobile app to marque it ring truthful you tin find it.
Another large payment of the mobile app is erstwhile it comes to typing thing in.
Tapping retired hunt terms, usernames, passwords, oregon immoderate different benignant of connection tin beryllium a symptom with a regular TV remote.
But with the mobile app, you tin simply usage your phone's keyboard to pat things in.
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This has the added payment of allowing you to participate log-in details utilizing your phone's password manager – similar the iCloud Keychain connected iPhone.
But possibly the biggest payment of each is the quality to usage Alexa dependable controls connected the mobile app.
Some Amazon Fire TV remotes person Alexa built in, but not each of them do.
So you tin get this diagnostic for escaped without having to upgrade to an Alexa remote.
There are loads of benefits of utilizing dependable controls.
For a start, you get each of the wide Alexa features similar asking for euphony oregon audiobooks, uncovering retired astir the news, playing trivia games, requesting jokes, and controlling your astute home.
But you tin besides usage it to power your TV.
So you tin inquire it to fast-forward 3 minutes if you privation to skip a boring scene.
TRY THESE COMMANDS!
Here's a database of Amazon-sanctioned Alexa commands for your Fire TV...
- "Watch [title]."
- "Play [title].
- “Play [title] connected [app]."
- "Search for [title]."
- "Find [title / genre]."
- "Show maine [tv shows / movies] with [actor]."
- "Show maine caller [tv shows / movies]."
- "Search for escaped [tv shows / movies].
- "Scroll [direction]."
- "Select #3."
- "Play #6."
- "Go back."
- "Go Home."
- "Show more."
- "Scroll down."
- "Select [row number]."
- "Go to my video library."
- "Play this movie."
- "Watch trailer."
- "Add this to my Watchlist."
- "Show maine [episodes/seasons]."
- "Open app."
- "Find [title / genre]."
- "Show maine [movies / TV shows]"
- "Find [actor] movies."
- "Select."
- "Scroll [right / near / up / down]."
- "Move [right / near / up / down]."
- "Play."
- "Pause."
- "Stop."
- "Resume."
- "Rewind [timeframe]."
- "Fast-forward [timeframe]."
- "Go backmost [timeframe]."
- "Jump guardant [timeframe]."
- "Next / Next Episode."
- "Watch from beginning."
- "Go to [channel / network] connected [app]."
- "Watch [channel / network]."
- "Go to Channel Guide."
- "Go to Live."
- "Show maine the weather."
- "Show maine my To Do List."
- "Show maine songs by [artist]."
- "Show maine restaurants nearby."
- "Show maine the [device name] camera."
- "Show maine the nursery camera."
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Or you tin hunt for circumstantial movie titles acold much rapidly than conscionable typing them in.
You tin rapidly power to circumstantial channels, oregon unfastened apps successful an instant.
And you tin adjacent set TV settings by asking it to mute the volume, power the representation oregon dependable mode, summation the bass, and truthful on.
Almost thing you tin deliberation of doing connected a Fire TV – but pausing oregon playing – is faster with dependable controls.
HOW TO USE PHONE AS FIRE TV REMOTE
The bully quality is that mounting up your telephone arsenic a Fire TV distant is precise easy.
First, download the Fire TV app connected your phone.
You tin get it for escaped from the Apple App Store for iOS connected iPhone, oregon the Google Play Store connected Android.
Then marque definite that your smartphone is connected to the aforesaid Wi-Fi web arsenic your Fire TV device.
FREE AND EASY!
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Open up the Fire TV app connected your phone, take the Fire TV from the devices list, and past travel the on-screen instructions.
Once you implicit set-up, you'll beryllium capable to usage your telephone arsenic a supercharged astute TV remote.