Made another knee jerk move. I'm S-canning Cox Contour cable TV. (Keeping Gig Internet) I signed up for DirecTV SAT. I go way way back with DirecTV so I know what I'm getting. My last was about 5 years back. My first more than 20yrs. I left Directv for Cox to get a bundled internet price. I live in So. Cal. so I've never had a signal/service problem with SAT but I have read a whole lot of horror stories before signing up.

It looks like this Genie box is tightly integrated with Alexa. For one commands are mentioned in the marketing material. Oh My Gosh! I remain an optimistic fool.