This skill allows to control your home cinema and the same-named Android app. You need no additional hardware, just an Amazon Echo and your phone, and your TV will obey each word you say.
How does it work?
First of all you need the same named app Smart TV Remote on your compatible Android phone. Install and setup this app in order to control your TV. You can find more information in the app description if your phone/TV is compatible and how to do that.
After that you need just to connect both, Amazon Echo and the app. Therefore you have to do:
1. Go to the app settings in Amazon Echo and click on register 2. Use the created code to connect the app with Amazon Echo by saying: "Alexa, tell Smart Remote to register my phone with code XXXX" 3. That's all, now Alexa controls your app and you can control your TV by voice.
You can disable the skill control feature without removing the connection between App and Amazon Echo.
You can find the Smart TV Remote app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adi.remote.phone
Here is a list with available commands:
TV CONTROL
turn my TV on make my TV on turn on my TV TV on turn my TV off make my TV off TV off
VOLUME
increase volume increase volume by {number} louder louder by {number}
decrease volume decrease volume by {number} quieter quieter by {number}
mute mute my TV mute TV mute the TV
CHANNELS
channel up channel higher turn one channel up switch to the next higher channel
channel down channel lower turn one channel down switch to the next lower channel
switch to channel number {number} switch to channel {number} channel {number} change to channel {number} change channel to {number}
show me channel information show channel information channel information information
last channel previous channel go to last channel go to previous channel jump to last channel jump to previous channel switch to last channel switch to previous channel channel back one channel back
show me the guide show me the TV guide show me EPG EPG TV guide close EPG close TV guide close guide exit EPG exit TV guide exit guide
MEDIA
play start playback resume playback
stop stop playback stop record
record recording start to record start recording resume recording