Native Alexa and Google Home Skills

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Hey guys,

Just wondering if there's a current timeline for the native Alexa and Google Home skills. I'm a big Amazon echo user so looking forward to testing this out. Also, would be nice to cut down on the lag from IFTTT.

BTW, Verizon just added a native Alexa skill to their main DVRs and it seems to work pretty well. You can play, pause, jump forward or backwards (for any amount of time), change channels, search for shows, actors, search DVR etc all using their Alexa skill. It's pretty much everything the Vox remote can do but using Alexa and better still, it's integrated in the Alexa video section of the app so all you need to say is "Alexa, pause" to pause rather than "Alexa, tell FiOS to pause". It'd be great if the TiVo Alexa skill is also as functional and native to Alexa.

Also, any idea if the auto skip would be possible via Alexa (rather than IFTTT) to cut down on the lag? I know Alexa doesn't have triggers but if you can implement it somehow, that'd be great.

Cheers

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Very impressive. I'm guessing for the searching for a show name, you had to program the exact macro commands sequence for the search box. Therefore, it can only search for pre programmed searches. Great work still though.

I actually already use Alexa with harmony to change channels, play, pause, mute etc. I can also just it to send IR commands to the TiVo box if those are set up as an activity. The real value of the TiVo skill to me is in searching for shows, playing DVR content and hopefully, in auto skipping.

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Wow. That's very impressive. I'm going to try it out this weekend.

How's trying to integrate the Vox type commands going? Would be great if you could replicate the search like how the Vox remote does it

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