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How to fetch device list from my database when linked my skill using LWA in aws lambda?

I had linked my smart home skill using LWA 'Login with Amazon'. It is working perfectly. My question is how to fetch the device list which is stored in my database. I get the bearer token for each directive call. But I don't know how to use that…
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Alexa: Increasing and Decreasing brightness of device

The Alexa skill does not work with "Increase/Decrease device_name to percentage". Example : Me - Alexa, Increase device by 20% Alexa - Sorry the device is not responding. However, when I check in Alexa application it increases the brightness by…
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How can I add custom mode in Alexa smart home skill

I am implementing smart home skill in which user will change mode. I found Alexa supported few inbuild modes and for user-defined mode they have CUSTOM mode mechanism. Over the documentation they mention below JSON need to set: { "name":…
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Parsing error due to invalid body ASK CLI

Using ASK CLI, I'm trying to update my smart home skill manifest but I'm facing the below error. ask smapi get-skill-manifest -s amzn1.ask.skill.6d0d22eb-d305-4caa-8921-503cb7827454 -p supreet > skill-manifest.json I have just changed a spelling…
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Alexa Smart Home "Failed to Retrieve State"

I am playing with a sample Alexa Smart Home skill - I am not talking to any real hardware or back-end, just trying to get message flow working. I have set up a simple switch/plug/light that can just support turning On/Off - and I have account linked…
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How to send to Amazon's Alexa Event Gateway?

I am trying to test sending an event to the Amazon's Event Gateway for my Alexa Smart Home skill using Postman but I keep receiving an 'invalid access token exception.' I have read the Amazon's documentation on this but apparently I am missing…
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How to fix "it doesn't support that" when I query Alexa retrievable property

I have this endpoint with powerState and connectivity properties both retrievable: { "endpointId": "123", "manufacturerName": "abc", "friendlyName": "lamp", "description": "lamp", "displayCategories": [ …
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Alexa Smart Home Error Response in the documentation is not clear enough

I am referring to the documentation of Amazon Alexa Smart Home and I have a doubt related to the JSON body they have given. {"event": { "header": { "namespace": "Alexa", "name": "ErrorResponse", "messageId": "abc-123-def-456", …
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Alexa smarthome skill routines

I need to create an Alexa smart home skill. I would like to control my lights using Alexa device. But based on my understanding, smart home skill only support utterances like this Alexa, turn on name Alexa, turn off name Alexa, set name to x…
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Amazon Alexa smart home skill directive for changing thermostat mode

I am building a smart home skill on amazon alexa. I am trying to figure out a way so that the user can change the mode of thermostat, i.e an user can give it command to set the mode from 'auto' to 'custom'.I cannot figure out which directive to use…
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Problem using smart home on Raspberry pi with integrated Alexa not certified?

I have installed Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Device SDK on a Raspberry Pi. I want to use smart home to turn on a led on my raspberry pi via the Alexa command. To do this, I followed the following tutorial:…
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Has the language support for Garage_door Alexa Smart Home Skill feature been expanded?

According to Alexa documentation currently Garage_Door feature is only available for English US locale. Has the language support been expanded to any other language? I have read several questions regarding this topic and, as of march 2021, there…
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Documentation for Matter Standard? ... Github project exists, but no overview

The Matter standard will important for the connected home. So, I want to understand the technical details. A relatively active Github project is here: https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip but where is the summary document/standard to…
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"Error querying agent backend. State: URL_TIMEOUT, reason: TIMEOUT_DNSLOOKUP"

Since 1.5-2 my google smarthome action was working absolutely fine with device sync, state query and all relevant actions. Since last 2 months I am getting following error, although I haven't changed anything: 0: { action: { actionType:…
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Alexa smart home skill lambda is throwing a LWA error

I am developing alexa smart home skill. As part account linking i am getting AcceptGrant. I am getting below error,When i am getting access_token and refresh_token by using authorization code which i get as part of AcceptGrant request. Something i…
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