Now Amazon Alexa Can Control Your Entire Family Room Entertainment Experience With Logitech Harmony
October 25 2016 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
New Skill Creates Novel Ways to Navigate Your
Smart Home With Harmony
Today Logitech (SIX:LOGN) (NASDAQ:LOGI) announced a new Amazon
Alexa skill that enables voice control of your entire living room
entertainment experience using a Logitech Harmony Hub with
Alexa-enabled devices such as the Amazon Echo or Echo Dot.
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Control Logitech Harmony hub-based
remotes with your voice, thanks to new Amazon Alexa skill.
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When the skill is enabled on Amazon Echo or Amazon Echo Dot, you
can start and stop Harmony Activities, control your entertainment
devices, or even turn directly to your favorite channels, hands
free, using only your voice. Harmony users can simply say “Alexa,
turn on the TV,” or “Alexa, turn on Netflix” to control the TV as
well as other entertainment and smart home devices, and Harmony
makes it happen.
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“This new capability is both practical and fun for our users,”
said Renee Niemi, general manager of the smart home business at
Logitech. “We’ve been working closely with Amazon to deliver robust
voice control of your smart home using a Harmony hub-based remote
and an Alexa-enabled device -- and if you don’t have Harmony yet,
just say ‘Alexa, order a Harmony Hub’ and have one delivered.”
With Harmony Activities, different actions and more than 270,000
devices can be combined to bring an entire scene to life. For
example, you can say, “Alexa, turn on my evening activity,” to your
Amazon Echo or Echo Dot and Alexa will use Logitech Harmony to
start a series of actions that you’ve previously defined, such as
turning the TV to HBO, bringing down the blinds and dimming the
smart lights — all at once.
“The Alexa experience just got smarter, thanks to our friends at
Logitech,” said Rob Pulciani director of Alexa at Amazon. “Logitech
Harmony is an innovator in entertainment and smart home control,
and together through this new Alexa skill and the Harmony hub-based
remote, we’re bringing voice control of the living room
entertainment experience to Alexa and Harmony customers.”
Logitech continually creates new experiences for Harmony
remotes, so people always have access to the latest home
entertainment and control experiences. These updates are delivered
for free and over the air to our remotes, so our users can rest
assured that a purchase today will also deliver the key features
they will want tomorrow.
Availability
The Logitech Harmony Alexa skill will be available this week in
the U.S. and will be available in the UK in the coming months. To
take advantage of this new capability, launch the Alexa app on your
smartphone and select Smart Home from the left-hand navigation
menu, Get More Smart Home Skills, and search for ‘Harmony.’ A
Logitech hub-based remote such as the Logitech Harmony Elite or
Logitech Harmony Companion is required. For additional information
on using Logitech Harmony remotes with Amazon Alexa, please visit
myharmony.com/alexa, our blog or connect with us on Facebook.
About Logitech
Logitech designs products that have an everyday place in
people's lives, connecting them to the digital experiences they
care about. Over 30 years ago, Logitech started connecting people
through computers, and now it’s designing products that bring
people together through music, gaming, video and computing. Founded
in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on
the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select
Market (LOGI). Find Logitech at www.logitech.com, the company blog
or @Logitech.
2016 Logitech, Logicool, Logi and other Logitech marks are owned
by Logitech and may be registered. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners. For more information about
Logitech and its products, visit the company’s website at
www.logitech.com.
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