How to use Amazon Alexa to control your Roku Smart Home devices

What you need to get started

In addition to your Roku Smart Home device, you will need the following:

• A free Roku account
• An Alexa-enabled device such as an Amazon Echo Show, Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Echo Spot, Amazon Echo Plus, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, or a third-party device with Amazon Alexa
• Alexa mobile app downloaded to your iOS^® or Android^™ device

Note: For help setting up an Amazon-branded Alexa device or downloading the Alexa mobile app, visit Amazon's device and digital content support.

How to set up Alexa

To control your smart home device with Alexa, you need to link your Roku account to your Amazon account using the following steps:

Notes:

• If you are not able to select a Roku device you may need to tap Manage devices in the Roku Smart Home skill screen in the Alexa app to complete this step.
• You can change the name that appears for your Roku device by updating the location in your Roku account.

What you can do with Alexa

With your Alexa app or Alexa-enabled device, use your voice to turn your smart home device on, view a live video stream, and adjust lights settings like color, brightness, and temperature.

Control your cameras and doorbells

The live video stream from your camera and doorbell can be viewed on a display device connected to Alexa like your Amazon Echo Show or Amazon Echo Spot.

Issue a command by saying "Alexa" followed by:

• Turn on your camera
  "Turn on living room"
• View your live stream
  "Show my living room on bedroom"
  "Show my doorbell on living room"
• Stop your live stream
  "Stop my doorbell on living room"

Control your home monitoring system

You can use Alexa to check your Roku Home Monitoring system alarm modes or turn your monitoring alarm modes on and off using your voice or in the Alexa app.

Before you can use your voice to turn your alarm mode off, you must change the following settings on your Monitoring hub in the Alex app.

Note: Alexa doesn't support using your PIN to change monitoring modes to Home or Away. Using your voice to change to Home or Away mode will fail if your PIN is required for mode changes.

Issue a command by saying "Alexa" followed by:

• Change your monitoring mode to Home
  "Arm monitoring to Home"
  "Arm security system to Home"
  "Set security system to Home"
• Change your monitoring mode to Away
  "Arm monitoring to Away"
  "Arm security system to Away"
  "Set security system to Away"
• Check your monitoring mode
  "Is my monitoring Armed?"
  "Is security system armed?"
• Turn your monitoring alarm mode off
  "Disarm"
  "Disarm my monitoring system"

Control your lights

Issue a command by saying "Alexa" followed by:

• Turn your light on
  "Turn on bedroom light"
  "Turn on tv light strip"
• Adjust brightness
  "Brighten living room light"
  "Set living room light to 50%"
  "Dim living room light by 75%"
• Set temperature (warm, warm white, incandescent, soft white, white, daylight, daylight white, cool, cool white)
  "Set bedroom light to daylight"
  "Set bedroom light to cool white"
• Set color
  "Set office light to red"
  "Set movie room light strip to purple"

Control your plugs

Issue a command by saying "Alexa" followed by:

• Turn your plug on
  "Turn on kitchen plug"