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Voice Remote Control with Echo?

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Jason13470

Voice Remote Control with Echo?
« on: March 14, 2016, 03:31:05 pm »
Just picked up two Echo's for my home and a set of Philips HUE.  So far really enjoying the automation so I'm planning on taking it a bit farther and would really like to be able to control my TV just by speaking to it (constantly losing my remotes).  It looks like there are three primary remote control options that support Echo that I've found and curious if anyone's used any of them before I pull the trigger to get pros/cons.
1) Harmony (using IFTTT) - looks like it works but since needs to be used through IFTTT it will be fairly limited
2) Blumoo - looks like this includes a dedicated skill and appears to do a lot (youtube demo's)
3) Anymote - seems similar to Blumoo capabilities but haven't seen any demo's
Anyone have experience with any of these?
Thanks!
-newb  ;)

Re: Voice Remote Control with Echo?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2016, 05:05:19 pm »
there is already a thread for the harmony in the tips and tricks section.  I believe it has the steps to set it up for the echo.