New TiVo Update Will Add Amazon’s Alexa Support To select DVRs

In the early weeks of January, TiVo unveiled their plans to add smart home integration, including voice control through Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant to their set-top boxes. The company just announced that its series 4 (Premiere), 5 (Roamio), and 6 (Bolt) DVR boxes are receiving an update that will let customers instruct an Alexa-enabled device to perform functions like changing channels, skip commercials, launching a streaming app, and more.

Other non-core functions your Alexa can control includes the ability to control playback and pause, fast forward, rewind, or jump back 8 seconds in the content you’re viewing. Don’t be in a hurry to ditch your Tivo remote yet because your Alexa can’t control everything on your device yet. Functions like searching for content, scheduling recordings or a OnePass is currently limited to your TiVo remote. The rollout should be complete by June 1st.