How to Use an Amazon Echo as a Speaker for Your Television

Your Amazon Echo can act as another speaker for your television, Fire TV, or Fire TV Stick. Here’s how to set it up.

The process for connecting an Echo device with your TV differs based on whether you use a standalone TV or a multi-speaker system with a receiver, such as a 5.1 setup with two front speakers, two rear speakers, and a middle speaker. If you use a TV without a receiver, then you will create the connection through the TV settings. If you use a receiver, you will need to go through the receiver’s settings.

Go to the Settings screen on your TV or receiver, then search for Bluetooth settings and turn it on. You may also need to adjust an option to direct the sound to your Echo. For my Denon receiver, I had to turn on a switch for Bluetooth Transmitter and then change the option to pipe the sound to both Bluetooth and the speakers connected to my receiver.

At the same time, say “Alexa, connect,” and the Echo will start searching for a Bluetooth connection while your TV is looking for a…

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