I was following the tutorial to create an Alexa app using Python: Python Alexa Tutorial I was able to successfully follow all the steps and get the app to work.I now want to modify the python co...

I'm working to build an Alexa skill and have run into a roadblock on getting my slot values out of the intent object. The intent object JSON looks like so: "intent": { "name": "string", "slots":...

I am creating custom skill in Alexa which uses account linking. I have created my own authentication server using OAuth2 php library and I have configured the authorization url and token urls in sk...

I want users of my Next.js TypeScript app to grant it permission to manage their Alexa Lists. I figured this would be possible with OAuth2. I figured I'd need to create a button in my website that ...

I am building an Alexa Skill that will implement Account Linking. When a user uses my skill, they would have to use the Alexa App to sign-in. The Authentication UI is set up and managed by Amazon ...

I have downloaded a file from a URL into the /tmp directory of AWS Lambda(as this was the only writable path in Lambda). My motive is to create an Alexa Skill which will download file from an URL....

Do I have to install the axios module locally and then deploy it to lambda or is there a way to do it through the inline code editor as well in the browser?

When the skill is under development, I can invoke it in the development console. In the Echo or the Amazon Alexa app the skill is not invoking. The skill is showing under the skills & games ta...

I just submitted a new version for certification and would like to start developing on my next version with new features. But somehow - since my skill is in certification mode I can not start a ne...

I am having issues understanding how to display images on the Echo Show inside the audioPlayer 'Now Playing' screen. I am currently playing an audio file and want to display an image on the 'Now P...

I am developing a Alexa skill in which on launch it will ask Do you want to perform something ? Depending upon user's reply 'yes' or 'no' I want to launch another intent. var handlers = { 'Launc...

I am developing a skill for Amazon Alexa and I'm using DynamoDB for storing information about the users favorite objects. I would like 3 columns in the database: Alexa userId Object Color I cur...

I've seen the page on amazon and understand that 1 RCU is a 4KB item. If I have a table with 50 items, I've read that a scan will read the full 50 items and use 50 RCU. But lets say I did a query...

I'm trying to write an Alexa skill that uses request.js & cheerio.js to do some web scraping for data. When I run it locally it works fine, as expected but on the AWS lambda instance I keep g...

I'm using a Lambda function for my Alexa Skill. For my launch intent, I query DynamoDB and return a String that I first want to convert into a QRCode and then I want to return it to the Alexa Devic...

I got the error code Error code: InvalidIntentSamplePhraseSlot when I built the model using the new skills console. The full error message is Sample utterance "AddBookmarkIntent i am at {pageno} ...

I'm writing Alexa skills and want to write a skill to store the speaker's words. For example, if I say, 'Alexa, save {whatever I say}', it should save the words in some string. Now from what I unde...

I have integrated my amazon echo device with the amazon portal associated to my account. I was able to create my own custom question with the Alexa Skills Kit and process with an AWS Lambda functio...

I have an Alexa Skill under development. I would like to grant other people at my company access to the skill in order to test it. Is there a way to do that? So far I've found the following: https:...

I am having a hard time getting this to work by following along with Amazon's Alexa documentation. I'm running aground on Account Linking because I can't figure out how to get Login with Amazon (LW...

How can we direct a Amazon Echo intent to a private/internal https endpoint? Like a raspberry pi running nodeJS. Using an "Echo Proxy" still requires to have the service accessible from internet ...

I am building Alexa Skill for Google calendar. The client side code works as expected on local machine because I can authenticate the local machine using the link. But, when I deploy the code on AW...

I'm building an Alexa skill that will allow Alexa users to interact with a consumer facing e-commerce site. There is functionality to call a representative that already exists on the site. Now, I w...

I was doing one of the tutorials (HelloWorld) to make a skill for the Echo and I followed the directions. When I tested the skill using the Service Simulator, I typed in Alexa, tell Greeter to sa...

I was successfully able to link my Alexa app (client) to our companies OpenID Connect platform (authorization server). Our authorization server returns the following information to Alexa client : ...