Connect Alexa To My Mac

Homekit is a home system made by Apple. Thishome system allows you to control all your compatible smart objects in oneplace, and you only need one iOS device to run it.

Can Alexa control Homekit devices? Homekit and Alexa are both smart home hubs,so one cannot directly control the other; however, the devices are a differentstory. As long as the device attached to your Homekit Hub is compatible withAlexa as well, the two will work seamlessly together.

While you can't control Homekit with Alexa,controlling the devices themselves is nearly the same thing. The setup is justas easy as non-apple products, and before you know it, you can use voicecontrol through Alexa.

The My Media for Alexa skill plus the My Media for Alexa app that runs on your computer must be linked to your Amazon account. This is done using Amazon's Login With Amazon service which provides Bizmodeller with very limited user information including your email address, first name and last name.

Alexa and Homekit

1. The Reverb app lets you chat with Alexa, helping to answer questions, provide information, and tap into other Alexa skills. Download the version of the app for your mobile device from Apple's App.
2. This is actually very easy to do: Just head into your Alexa app, go to the left side menu, select Settings, and go to Music & Podcasts. Now choose Link New Service, and select Apple Music.

You will need both Apple and Alexa products tocontrol your Homekit devices through Alexa. Many people use Alexa for theirvoice commands, and their iPhone or iPad for automation, because Alexa ispredominantly a voice-activated system. The bonus to this is that if one systemis down, you can just use the other.

Alexa Skills

Alexa uses Skills tocontrol its devices. So to make your Alexa work with your Homekit devices, youwill need to locate the devices in skills and download them. There are a vastamount of Skills available, so finding your Homekit device shouldn't be toodifficult.

Once you find yourdevice, simply hit enable, and you should be able to voice activate it wheneveryou want!

Hereis the Amazon Skills page to check your device compatibility.

Homekit Devices

Being able to connectyour devices to Alexa will not mean anything if the devices you own are notcompatible with Homekit.

Here is a list of Homekit compatible devices.

Alexa on Your iPhone

Despite Amazon and Apple being rivals, you cannow download the Alexa Amazon app on your iPhone. This is essential in linkingyour Alexa technologies, with your Apple technologies; whether you are linkingyour Homekit devices, Apple Music, Apple TV, etc. You will generally need theAmazon Alexa app to connect anything.

Here is how you set up Alexa on your iPhone:

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1. Locate the Appstore on yourphone.
2. Hit the Search bar at thebottom of the screen.
3. When the keypad pops up, typein Alexa, and hit search.
4. Hit the Get button.
   1. If you've had the app beforebut deleted it, the icon will look like a cloud with an arrow pointing downwardinstead.
5. When it finishes downloading,hit Open, and it will launch the app.

Alexa and Apple TV

Unfortunately, Alexa is unable to control yourApple TV directly, but with a smart home hub, it is easily done. Luckily forus, most people own some sort of smart home hub.

If you have something like an Echo, you canconnect the two just like you would connect any Bluetooth device:

1. Tell Alexa to turn on Bluetooth.
2. Go to your Apple TV.
3. Find your settings.
4. Go to Bluetooth.
5. Connect to Alexa.

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Once you've completed those five simple stepsyou can use your Echo to turn the television on and off, play or pause yourmovies, and turn the volume up and down. That is as far as Alexa can take youas far as controls.

Alexa and Apple Music

Amazon and Apple have been long timecompetitors, and they haven't always played nice in the past. Being able to useApple Music on your Amazon Echo device is a relatively new development.

Now you can finally have your Applesubscription in your Alexa app, so you can play your Apple music, on your Echodevices. This is only available in the United States, the United Kingdom, andIreland.

What You Will Need

Here is a list of thethings you will need, and the things you will need to do to set up Apple onyour Alexa device.

• Apple Music subscription
• An Amazon Device
  • Amazon Echo
  • Amazon Fire TV
  • Alexa enabled speaker
• Update your Amazon Alexa app

Set-Up

Here are the stepsyou will need to set up Apple Music on Alexa:

1. Find the Amazon Alexa app onyour phone.
2. There will be a menu button inthe upper-left-hand corner.
3. Tap Settings.
4. Find Alexa Preferences, and tapMusic.
5. Hit Link New Service.
6. Hit Apple Music.
7. Hit Enable To Use.
8. Sign in with your Apple ID.

That is all you needto do to set up Apple Music with Alexa!You can also go to the Skills store for Alexa, and enable the Apple Music Skill.

Apple Podcasts for Alexa is available only in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States.

Here's what you need

• An Amazon Fire TV or Amazon Echo speaker and the iOS or Android device you used for setup with the Amazon Alexa app installed. Make sure that you update to the latest iOS and check the App Store to see if there are updates for the Amazon Alexa app. If you use an Android device, check the Google Play Store for any updates to the Apple Podcasts app or Amazon Alexa app.
• If you need help setting up or using Alexa, your Amazon Echo device, or your Fire TV device, get help from Amazon.

Set up Apple Podcasts with Alexa

1. Open the Amazon Alexa app, then tap the menu button in the upper-left corner.
2. Tap Skills & Games and search for the Apple Podcasts skill.
3. Tap Enable to Use.

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You can also enable the Apple Podcast skill in the Alexa skill store on the web.

Set up Apple Podcasts as your default podcast service

Learn how to ask Alexa to play something without saying 'on Apple Podcasts' each time.* Alexa to do list on mac.

1. Open the Amazon Alexa app, then tap the menu button in the upper-left corner.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Music & Podcasts.
4. Under Services, tap Link New Service.
5. Sign in with your Apple ID to link your Apple Podcasts account.
6. Once you've successfully signed in, tap the X icon in the upper right corner.
7. Tap Select Default Service.
8. Select Apple Podcasts as the default podcast service.

*Available only in Brazil, Germany, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Ask Alexa to play your podcasts

You can ask Alexa to play the latest episodes of your favorite podcasts. Say something like, 'Alexa, play Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend on Apple Podcasts,' or, 'Alexa, play The Daily from yesterday on Apple Podcasts.'

Disable Apple Podcasts in Alexa

1. Open the Amazon Alexa app, then tap the menu button in the upper-left corner.
2. Tap Settings.
3. In Alexa Preferences, tap Music.
4. Tap Apple Podcasts.
5. Tap Disable Skill.

Disabling the Apple Podcasts skill also unlinks your Apple Podcasts account from the Amazon Alexa app.

Learn more

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• Learn how you can subscribe and listen to Apple Podcasts.
• You can also use Siri to play Apple Podcasts on your Apple devices. With Siri, you can choose from a wider variety of commands.
• Take your listening experience further and play Apple Music with Alexa.

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If you're attempting to listen to explicit content with Alexa in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, or Spain, you can listen to it in the Podcasts app on an Apple device.