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Citron2010
Hi, I have an LG 43UN71006LB with OS v4.50.53 (latest)
I want to buy a TV for my mother who has dementia & poor eyesight.
She needs to be able to control the TV with Alexa - i.e. voice only without having to hold a button on a remote down.
I thought I'd test this on my TV and it works very well. I've even set "routines" on Alexa so that saying "Alexa, BBC 1" is a shortcut for "Alex, change the channel on LGTV to 101" etc.
But - it doesn't work for radio channels (channel 704 is BBC Radio 4):
"Alexa, change channel on LGTV to 101" - works perfectly (101 = BBC 1 - a TV channel)
"Alexa, change channel on LGTV to 705" - "that command doesn't work on device LGTV"
It basically won't work with any of the radio channels (700 to 790)
Also tried:
"Alexa, change channel on LGTV to BBC RADIO 4" - "hmm - I don't know that"
"Alexa, play BBC Radio 4 on LGTV" - "I didn't find anything called LGTV that can play music"
I thought I'd try to change 704 to another channel outside of the 700 to 790 range but when I tried:
"The programme number cannot be edited between programme 700 to 790"
I tried playing the Radio on the Alexa then using Sound Share to turn the TV into a Bluetooth speaker - this works really well - except that I can't turn Sound Share on using Alexa:
"Alexa, enable Sound Share on LGTV" - "that command doesn't work on device LGTV"
Anyone have any ideas?
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Grimskull2008
Hi all, First time poster!
I have the above TV (UK based) with an Alexa Show in my home. The TV has Alexa on it which is fine and the TV has been discovered by the Alex Show 5 and also in my iPhone App.
I can turn the TV on with the Alexa Show... but like hell will it turn off.
I have both LG skills installed (basic and complete) and the TV is wired into to the home network.
It will only turn on if I call it by my name. If I call it by any other name (Office TV, LG TV) it will not turn on.
So I call the TV by my name and it turns on, great... create a routine to add in my Xbox Series X and all done.
It will not turn off. At all. It keeps saying "Sorry TV doesn't Support that or Check network connection and try again".
I have used "Alexa, turn off office TV" and "Alexa..... tell LG to turn off office television" plus a few others but it will not turn it off.
This is the kicker..... Apple Homekit on my iPhone will turn it off and on no issues at all.
What am I missing with the Alexa Show 5 that it won't turn off??
I am trying to see if I can link the Alexa routine to an Apple Homekit to turn it off but seems a lit way out there for something that should be simple.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
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