Hooking Up Alexa To Receiver

Turn off your stereo receiver.

Hooking up alexa to receiver. For a comprehensive list of alexa friendly names click here. Set it up using the alexa app. Go to your alexa device in the app and tap on bluetooth. Download the alexa app and sign up with your amazon account.

Alexa will remember for a brief period of time which device you re controlling so when you ask alexa to turn up the volume it will do so on the tv instead of the echo speaker. After awhile alexa will forget but logitech claims you can fix this by being more specific and saying something like alexa turn up the volume on the tv. I ll have to second this at least for now. In the left menu select settings.

Connect the rca cables to the back of your stereo receiver and note which input they re attached to. Alexa is amazon s cloud based voice service that can be used to control all kinds of devices including musiccast products. Musiccast is a wireless multi room audio system built into many yamaha av receivers sound bars and wireless speakers. You can skip this step if you have already set up your amazon alexa device.

This is how i have mine setup and it works great and you only need one cable for the 2 way connection. Make sure you activate your receiver s bluetooth scan. If you have a newish tv with spotify app connected to your receiver via hdmi mhl and on the same network as your dot you can use an alexa skill called speakify to control spotify on your tv which plays through to your receiver. Plug in the 3 5mm end of your rca cable into your echo device.

I would rather tell alexa to turn the volume up on my pioneer vsx than have to open the icontrol app on my phone or dig through the remotes. It is easy to connect alexa to a stereo via bluetooth but much more efficient to be able to control the output volume through the stereo rather than the input volume through alexa. If you have a bluetooth capable av receiver you can also set up your echo device to connect to your receiver through bluetooth connection. Next set up your amazon alexa device on the same wi fi network as your heos enabled device.

My standby setting is to leave the receiver on the input that the echo is hooked up to.