Better TV Sound with Your Echos! Alexa Home Theater

Here is how to get your Echos setup as a stereo pair or in home theater mode with your Fire TV. The Echos sound next to the TV speakers are so much fuller than TV speakers. Now you have also added handsfree control with Siri and your HomePod minis. A big upgrade this year to the Fire TV 4k Max is support for ARC. ARC is an audio return channel that will send sound from other devices back to the apple tv and from there to the Echos as speakers. Great for connecting my X Box series X to my Fire TV

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction / Theater Mode
00:48 Setup Theater Mode
04:04 Testing Theater Mode
05:55 Alexa Voice Control
06:38 Smart Home Dashboard
07:37 ARC - Audio Return Channel
07:45 Using Echos with X Box
08:10 What you Need

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[cubanamerican]

I had a mini stroke when you showed the ARC function, you just saved me a lotta money my friend!

[MrFerbis]

Dear Craig: I've been following you for years and your shows had helped me a lot. Yes, I've been using my Ecos + Eco-sub + FireTV for quite some time; which I missed was connecting my HDMI to the wrong port, I just fixed this and I'll check this change later this evening; what I couldn't do was rising the volumen enough, the max setting is not enough; well I'll see this tonight. Merry christmas to you and yours and thanks a lot for your tutorials which I never miss. Yours, Fernando Biancardi in Colombia.

[GIJACQUE]

Your a legend, this video helped me soooo much as I didn’t know about changing the arc hdmi settings…. Frustrated I came here hoping to find a solution and your the only video that explained it and so simple that within a few minutes I finally had home theatre set up in my room. FOREVER GRATEFUL X

[patuxent]

Thanks for telling us about the ARC option. I have two Echo Studios w/ Subwoofer with my 4K Firestick. It’s been an issue that I have these expensive speakers but the only thing I can use them on is the fire stick. Now I know I can upgrade to the 4K Max and take advantage of the speakers. A welcome addition that I had no idea existed.

[robertbuchanan]

One tip about using two echoes in one room you may want to mention is change the wake word on one. It keeps them from getting confused. It's a helpful tip if you have overlapping areas if you want a specific device to respond. Example I love that anywhere in my house I can say Alexa turn on xxx but the full size echo in the family room that is my primary music device wakes on echo. Same with dot in the master bedroom so I don't accidentally set my morning alarm in the guest room.

[Toolsish]

Oh wow I've just watched 4 or 5 videos about this same ish and finally some actual useful information thank you so f***in much the arc was the key to it all. I was about to chuck the Alexa into the TV lol!

[rhythmus]

Hello, I'm Ralf from Germany, I tried it and it worked great. Thank you for the good tips! I wish you a Merry Christmas. Greetings Ralf.

[Grandadtech]

I have two echo dots 4th generations paired with the echo sub for my home theater. They are paired to my cheap Amazon Fire 4K 43” television and the sound is great.

[sonora]

Will the new feature on the 4k max work with a playstation or only with amazon luna gaming service?

[tonyvalenti]

I’ve used the Home Theater option since the day the Echo Studio and Sub came out. After at least a couple of years I noticed two things that were pretty negative. First, I will say the sound of Echo Studios are room filling and way better than any TV speaker. Now for the not so good. I found that the Sub continually disconnected from the pair, so much so, I removed it and it’s sitting in my closet. Unfortunate because I was enjoying those deep bass sounds. Second, and more annoying, the Echo Studios only WiFi connect at 5GHz, which is fine for me, however my Fire TV Stick 4K would connect at 2.4GHz or 5GHz. My Orbi Mesh Network takes the worry out of needing two SSID’s and allows any device to connect at the best band possible. Here’s the big problem. If and when the Fire TV decides to connect to the router at 2.4GHz, you lose your sound from the Echo’s. They all need to be on the same frequency. Not a good thing when you are midway through a movie! The only thing I could do was disconnect the Fire TV in the Network Settings and then reconnect. Sometimes, it would take a dozen or more tries to get it back to 5GHz or I’d give up and go back to the TV speakers. Rebooting any or all of them didn’t help. I just bought the Fire TV Stick 4K Max to replace it because it was doing other strange things like leaving blank spaces where recently watched shows were. Guess for $550 I expected a little more stability and compatibility. Anyway, hope this is informative for some. As always, great videos. 😉👍🏻

[zman]

Can the tv speakers be used in conjunction with the Alexa set up and fire tv?

[kiwisun]

If you have a soundbar could you use these as rear speakers? thanks

[wesbez]

It’s great. Able to get Dolby digital plus. Wish I could add more than two speakers (yes I know bass speaker.) have two by the tv and two smaller eggs at the back. Why is it limited

I have a echo dot 4th generation paired with my fire stick in my home cinema, and it doesn’t let me add my other echo dot 3rd generation, will a 5th generation work with the 4th one? Or do I have to buy another 4th

[tonyvalenti]

Kudos to Craig! After two years I learned something I never thought of or considered! I truly thought the ARC advantage was strictly to add a sound bar.

Who knew if I moved my new Fire TV 4K Max with Home Theater Echo Studio’s to my HDMI ARC port, I’d now get high quality speakers through my Apple TV 4K as well, instead of the tinny TV speakers! So thanks very much for that! 😁👍🏻

One caveat though. Even though the sound from my Apple TV comes through the Echo’s now, I can’t use the Apple Remote to control the volume. I was hoping …. But, I have to switch to my Fire TV Remote to change the volume. 😔

[koBe]

Can you add an echo dot and echo pop to a home theatre combo?

[ronm]

Thanks Craig. Happy Holidays to you and your family. 🎄

[richardmiller]

Omg I had a melt down 😅 a lot to do but will try thank you 🤞

[dry]

Which echo models are those? They are huge?

[intelblkman]

Would i be able to pair a 2nd and 3rd gen echo dot as a stereo pair?