Smart Home How-Tos

Changing these four settings will help parents sleep at night.

Dish TV customers can now control their Hopper or Wally using Amazon Alexa. Here's how to set it up with your Echo, Echo Dot, or Tap.

No more shouting yourself hoarse when dinner’s ready.

You can control your Roku TV device using Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. Here's how to set it up, and what you can do.

Amazon's FreeTime service lets you set limits on what your child can see and do, and for how long they can use it. Here's how to set it up on your Echo device.

An Alexa routine will turn on smart home devices automatically, play music, and even talk to you at a specified time, or when you say a certain phrase. Here's how to set up a routine.

Amazon Alexa's Drop-In feature, which lets you view a feed from someone's Echo Show unannounced, is a bit creepy. Here's how to disable it.

Take the leap and give this feature a try.

You can connect the Amazon Echo smart speaker to the Logitech Harmony Elite universal remote. Here's how to make your home theater controlled by your voice.

You no longer have to say "Alexa" before every voice command to Amazon's smart speaker.