Amazon is including help for AirPlay 2 and HomeEquipment to 2 of its Fire TV Edition TVs in a free replace, the corporate announced on Wednesday. Both the 2020 Toshiba 4K UHD Smart Fire TV with Dolby Vision and the 2020 Insignia 4K UHD Smart TV will obtain the options, earlier than they arrive on Amazon’s cheaper Fire TV sticks and set-top bins.

On these particular TV units, AirPlay 2 ought to perform the identical on Apple’s personal Apple TV, permitting you to ship audio and video out of your cellphone, pill, or pc to the large display screen and management playback out of your system. Integrating with HomeEquipment, Apple’s good dwelling ecosystem, requires slightly further legwork: you’ll need to allow HomeEquipment in your TV’s settings below Display & Sounds > AirPlay & HomeEquipment > Set Up, after which add it as a tool within the Home app. Once it’s added, you should use Siri to show your Fire TV on and off, change the quantity, or change inputs.

Both AirPlay 2 and HomeEquipment coming to Fire TVs (and hopefully, sooner or later quickly, Fire TV sticks) ought to make utilizing the TVs with Apple’s units that a lot simpler. Apple already has an in with Amazon’s units — the Apple TV Plus app got here to Fire TVs in 2019.

It’s a stark distinction to how these two firms had been interacting slightly over 5 years in the past, Back then, Amazon had banned gross sales of competing {hardware} just like the Apple TV (and Chromecast, and Nexus Player) in its market as a result of it claimed it was necessary to solely promote media gamers that “interact well” with Prime Video. The firms have since reconciled, and reached a really favorable deal for Amazon that permits it to keep away from Apple’s 30 p.c App Store fee and use its personal in-app buy system. Now issues are higher. At least in case you personal an iPhone and Fire TV.