Tivo Channel Change with Harmony Hub and Amazon Echo

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Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:39 pm
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Tivo Channel Change with Harmony Hub and Amazon Echo

Struggling a bit here and need some advice. I got my Harmony Home Control Hub set up and working fine with the Amazon Echo and IFTTT to run the power on and off macros. I'm now trying to integrate the Indigo Tivo plugin so I can send channel changes to Indigo via the Echo. I set up a virtual device to send the IR code to channel up/down, but it will only work once, presumably because it is either on or off. Alexa just grunts at me when I try it a second time. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong, or another better way to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Jim

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Sat Feb 20, 2016 5:14 pm
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Re: Tivo Channel Change with Harmony Hub and Amazon Echo

Well this was apparently a voice recognition issue with Alexa. I have it mostly working now with ChannelUP and ChannelDOWN commands, Alexa sometimes doesn't understand it.

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Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:12 pm
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Re: Tivo Channel Change with Harmony Hub and Amazon Echo

You can try renaming them something slightly different that sounds the same... I want to say "Alexa, turn off iTunes", but the only way I could reliably get it to work was to name the device (in the Alexa Bridge) as "eye tunes". Now works every single time.

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Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:07 am
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Re: Tivo Channel Change with Harmony Hub and Amazon Echo

Thanks Adam, good to know. I'll give that a try.
Jim

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