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The Amazon Echo is a Virtual Personal Assistant produced by Amazon. For questions about the usage of the device, ask at Internet of Things Stack Exchange. Ask on Stack Overflow for questions regarding programming the Echo with skills (the Alexa Skills Kit).

The Amazon Echo is a Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) that is exposed to developers through the Alexa Skills Kit, allowing a voice activated interface to third party apps.

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Lambda function not working with Alexa skill intend?

I try to connect a custom intent called "PageviewsIntent" with my lambda function. Sadly this does not work? My idea was to connect first like this return request.type === 'IntentRequest' && request.intent.name === 'PageviewsIntent'; and…
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How to DISABLE Alexa's "holiday surprise protection"

I'm in the US, and our Alexas now refuse to tell us what's in our upcoming deliveries "to avoid spoiling any holiday surprises." This is infuriating... it's one thing if it's a setting that can be simply disabled, but I can't find any way to do…
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How do I trigger Alexa from an external software?

This is probably the opposite of what people usually want to do. Is it possible to write a piece of software that triggers Alexa? Basically, like saying "Alexa, do something" to your Amazon Echo, but with code instead of talking. Perhaps by…
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How to lock my AWS lamda to my echo device only

I am trying to write a new echo (Alexa) skill for which there is an AWS lamda call for doing the processing. However I want the lamda to be accessible to my echo device only. Other devices should not be able to access the lamda even if they know the…
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Need helping adding Yes/No prompt to Fact template to iterate/ get another fact

I am using the Fact skill template and I am modifying it so after reading out a random fact, it asks the user if they would like another. I've searched around on here, but similar problems seem to have a different syntax. I don't know if I should be…
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How to have Alexa perform button "SetLight" directives consecutively?

I'm working on having Alexa display a pattern of blinks utilizing two buttons for a second of orange each with a half second of black buffer. So the pattern would be: button 1 for 1 second of orange with half a second of black. button 2 for one…
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Alexa Skill with Multiple Yes No Questions

I have a workflow that asks different Yes/No questions. Using the Amazon built in Yes and No intents, how can I use them for multiple questions. Here is an example of the flowchart. I create a state called "Injury" in order have different handlers…
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Can Amazon Echo OAuth take an authorization url that is a registered domain name?

I am trying to set up OAuth with the Amazon Echo. Unfortunately, I get the error, Error: A URL must be between 9 and 2000 characters. When I try to set up OAuth/account linking on the Amazon Developer portal. It seems to be an issue with my…
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AWS Lambda 'Process exited before completing request'

I've been trying to learn to make skills for Amazon Echo. I successfully made a super simple one that literally just responds with hello. For a second attempt, to try and pin down what I've learned, I wanted to be a bit more adventurous, and make…
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Echo Show is showing offline in my Alexa App and my Browser and it's not working properly

Okay I have reset my echo show and I logged in my amazon account. But when I check my device on the companion app it appears offline (alexa app is up-to-date) also in my browser on the computer I get the same things. Also, any settings or skills I…
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Amazon echo show not responding to new smart home skill

I have created a smart home skill for testing my amazon echo show integration with my smart camera. I have created a lambda function. When I test it on the AWS Lambda console it works fine. Below is the request body that I am using to test { …
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Echo dot commands Raspberry pi to execute a script on my computer

Looking for a coding guru to explain me what direction I need to take now: I use an Amazon Echo Dot which is currently connected to my Raspberry Pi. I can now say "Alexa turn device on/off" which returns a true/false to my Raspberry Pi using this…
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Return data from API based on date/Amazon slot type

I'm writing a Lambda function that gets data from an API for an Alexa Skill, but I want to make the results more specific by using Amazon's built-in AMAZON.DATE slot type. For example, only returning events for a specific…
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Can you autoscroll text on the Echo Show?

I'm updating an Alexa skill to work on the new Echo Show. In one area of the skill, I've got large block of text that is took long for one screen. Is there a way to get Alexa/the Show to autoscroll the text as Alexa is saying it? The example I'm…
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Amazon Alexa Custom skill: Respond to intent using standard short sound

I'm developing a custom skill. For communication with Alexa, I use Amazon Echo Dot device. Sometimes Alexa answers with a standard short sound in the end. For example, if a session is closed because there was no answer on a question…
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