Turn your Fire TV into a larger Amazon Echo Show. Here’s how

If you’ve got an Amazon Echo device, like the Echo Dot, but thought about upgrading to an Echo Show, you might not need to spend the extra cash. You can now turn a Fire TV into an Echo Show and control it with the Echo speaker you already have. 

Not only does it provide you with a much larger screen than the Echo Show, but it can also display your front door camera on the TV screen. It also eliminates the need to use your Fire Stick remote to control the TV by letting you control everything with just your voice. (Sorry, touchscreen and camera not included.)

To get started, make sure your Echo device is connected to your Fire TV — you can do so manually or with automatic pairing. For example, if you ask Alexa to play a movie, it’ll ask you to confirm that you want to use your Alexa device to control your Fire TV. Once you do this, you can say something like “Alexa, show me the weather,” which Alexa will display on the TV, rather than vocally telling you the weather through the speaker. 

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