After promising up the feature for the better part of a year, Dish Hopper line just got Google Assistant functionality.
The feature brings hands-free control to the receivers, allowing for the standard array of functionality like play, pause, fast forward and rewind, along with content search.
Here are a handful of examples from Google, &Turn on my Hopper&&Tune to channel 140&&Show me home improvement shows&&Open Game Finder on Hopper&&Rewind 30 seconds& &Pause& and &Resume&&Record Game of Thrones on Hopper&You get the idea.Dish announced the featureback at CES — I&m not sure eight months qualifies as &soon& in terms of software updates, but there you go.
The feature works with Hoppers that are paired with Assistant-enabled devices like Google Home smart speakers and Android handsets.
Apparently the company rolled the feature out to about one-percent of users last week as a kind of large-scale test.Dish has supported Alexa for some time, on the other hand.
Last May, the company brought the hands-free skill to Hopper,and added support for its Joey receivers back in October.
Amazon assistant also added DVR recording capability for Dish,TiVo, DIRECTV andVerizon this March.