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Developing apps for Amazon Alexa - so called skills.

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Amazon Alexa, alexa-app and middleware

have been going different routes for 2 days now and can't figure it out. Perhaps someone can shed some light on my problems. I am trying to run a botserver that connects to multiple plaforms and already have around 5 working. I am now also trying…
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How to end session for custom Alexa skill?

I am creating a custom skill for Alexa. I want to close the session on AMAZON.StopIntent. How can I achieve this with below code? const ExitHandler = { canHandle(handlerInput) { const request = handlerInput.requestEnvelope.request; return…
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Alexa Skill - How to get complete text of statement asked to alexa

I am creating an Alexa skill, I have coded several custom and default intents and they are working fine. Now I want to write a fallback intent wherein I want to get the exact statement asked/sent to Alexa skill, is there a way wherein we may get the…
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Alexa: We were unable to link at this time

We are creating alexa skill and trying to do account linking. We have setup the below steps so far for account linking : Setup Authorization URI API https://[abcapp].herokuapp.com/userdetails/accountlinking For Authorization API we are redirecting…
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Alexa - Ruby - Playing Audio Files

I am trying to play an audio file through Alexa. My backend in Ruby on Rails and I am using alexa-ruby gem. I was able to produce speeches via ask and tell directive like this def index parsed_request = JSON.parse(request.body.read) alexa =…
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Multiple Authorities in resolutionsPerAuthority on an Alexa skill request

I have been working on an Alexa skill and till date it worked fine but today i have encountered a strange issue. The similar issue can be seen in other skills as well. The issue is that i am getting multiple authorities in resolutionsPerAuthority of…
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Ask-cli lambda command uses wrong region setting

I am trying to set up a workflow via the ask-cli for developing an Amazon skill with an Amazon lambda backend. I have created a skill and it works fine when using "ask api ..." commands, but when I use an "ask lambda ..." command, such as "ask…
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Make Alexa Announce the notification through a custom skill by calling any APIs from Backend without saying 'Alexa Read my notifications'?

I am building a custom skills for one of my use case. I am trying to implement a feature based on a token number. If token number 2 got his order, I want Alexa to announce about the next token number. Let's say for example, 'Token Number 3, your…
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how to send a http request to my alexa skill and get a response from it?

Objective - I created a basic Alexa skill using the Alexa hosted option, and I want to send an HTTP request to my Alexa back end in text or in JSON and get the response as a text without using an Alexa device. question 1- is this even possible with…
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Can I determine whether an Alexa Request was triggered by a routine or a user?

I have a need to differentiate between an explicit request and a request from a routine. Here is an example. Let's say I am controlling a smart light. The light is able to detect occupancy. If a user comes in the room and says turn on the…
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I have created https endpoints for alexa custom skills using PHP. It was working fine in test simulator But not working on alexa app

I have created custom skills and https endpoints using PHP. I have tested skills on simulator it was working. I am able to see my skills on alexa android app and i have enabled it. But not getting valid response.
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Alexa Skills Kit: How to call custom intent from another intent in ASK sdk V2

Hi I have been using and developing skills on Alexa since quite few months. Recently I updated to the ask sdk version 2. I find everything cool and stuck nowhere. I couldn't find a way to emit an intent now. Like earlier we were able to call Intent…
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Get User Contacts using alexa-sdk

I am building an alexa skill which sends sms for alexa-user. (Ofcourse there is business logic behind when to send these messages). And I have two hurdles in the process:- Alexa can send sms to anybody from users device, is that feature exposed to…
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Calling Another Alexa intent from within LaunchRequest

I am working on an Alexa skill where I would like to redirect user to one intent when he opens the skill via LaunchRequest. User says Open xyz skill LaunchRequest receives this and forwards the request to another…
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Alexa intent is not waiting for the api response

We are developing alexa skill using alexa-app, in one of our intent we are trying to fetch albums from facebook and on success/failure we want alexa to respond accordingly. But intent is not waiting for FB call to complete. Below is the code snippet…
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