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re: Amazon Fire TV Cube, release date 6/21

Posted on 6/28/18 at 11:10 am to
Posted by StraightCashHomey21
Aberdeen,NC
Member since Jul 2009
126237 posts
Posted on 6/28/18 at 11:10 am to
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I agree, smart TV apps are terrible. I have a few Samsung Smart TVs and the apps are slow, then they eventually stop working at all after a year or 2


Yea on my Samsung UHD is got back in 2016, the apps are almost unusable.
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62437 posts
Posted on 6/28/18 at 11:20 am to
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What does the Harmony Hub do?


It works with the harmony universal remote and comes with an IR blaster. That's the main thing I need, my soundbar uses an IR remote, I'd love to control it with Alexa. I was hoping the Fire Cube would be the solution I wanted, but now I may look at the sideclick universal remote that attaches to the side of the Fire TV remote.
Posted by Mac
Forked Island, USA
Member since Nov 2007
14730 posts
Posted on 6/28/18 at 1:13 pm to
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my soundbar uses an IR remote

Cube should still be able to control it. It has an IR extender
Posted by jlovel7
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2014
22759 posts
Posted on 6/28/18 at 1:34 pm to
I just returned mine today. I realized it actually did less than my original fire tv+harmony+echo dot. Traded it in for a second dot. Had it been able to do multi room audio I would have kept it. I don't know why they sandbagged the product. I can't imagine that they couldn't have coded that capability into it.
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62437 posts
Posted on 6/28/18 at 1:51 pm to
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Cube should still be able to control it. It has an IR extender


Yeah, but if it pauses the TV stream every time I talk to Alexa, or every time Alexa thinks I'm talking to her, no thanks.
Posted by Mac
Forked Island, USA
Member since Nov 2007
14730 posts
Posted on 6/28/18 at 3:30 pm to
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Yeah, but if it pauses the TV stream every time I talk to Alexa, or every time Alexa thinks I'm talking to her, no thanks.

Yea I complained about that earlier in the thread. Not really sure why it is necessary.
Posted by Dodd
Member since Oct 2003
21101 posts
Posted on 6/28/18 at 10:25 pm to
Can’t wait until it’s also a mesh
Posted by StraightCashHomey21
Aberdeen,NC
Member since Jul 2009
126237 posts
Posted on 7/5/18 at 9:23 pm to
very happy with mine so far

also stoked i dont have to hook up a mouse to turn on my vpn
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