Hello Reddit! I’ve developed a French interactive narrative skill on Amazon where you step into the shoes of Elon Musk, navigating through key moments of his life and making choices that shape his career. Given the global interest in Elon Musk and technology, I'm considering translating it into English. Would there be interest here for such an English version? Your feedback would help gauge interest and ensure it meets the community's preferences!

So another week goes by and still Alexa won't play Spotify more than 10 minutes?

Also, Alexa NOW tells me it can't loop music?

But I keep getting emails to sign up to Amazon music, coincidental, maybe not? It's a plan right?

Two quick questions for the brain trust. 1) I am trying to remove devices from the Alexa App. On line instructions all say that once you are in the device settings there should be a trash icon. I don’t have that or any obvious options to delete. 2) Just got and a 4th gen Echo. Set up was easy and all functions working fine. The issue I am having is telling it to play a list on Spotify. It replies it is “playing workout list on Spotify” but then nothing happens. Not having this issue on any other device

It all started last Friday in the afternoon for no apparent reason. I have three Alexa devices in my home and when I say "Alexa, play Spotify", she'll now play the first or second track of an album or playlist and then stop. So I then have to say "Alexa, play" and she'll continue and then stop etc etc. When I then look at the Spotify app on my phone, the album or playlist that is playing on Alexa, shows the play icon not the pause icon. It has to be something to do with Alexa, as when I play Spotify from my phone to a bluetooth speaker (not an Alexa speaker) or bluetooth earbuds, things play as they should.

I've updated both apps, unlinked and relinked Spotify but nothing changes.

Any suggestions on how to solve this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Title basically says it all. Has anyone else ever experienced this? I couldn't find anything online of anyone reporting the same issue. Everyone just keeps talking about whisper mode, but this is definitely not whisper mode. It's quite literally a creepy little girl voice with a slight British accent.

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So, here's the thing. I was gifted an Attack on Titan light painting. I plugged it into a smart plug that's already paired with my Alexa (4th gen). I would love for it (the plug) to turn on as soon as I say "Shinzo wo sasageyo", which is a phrase from the anime, but although I named the device like the phrase, when I say it, it just plays the anime's song... Can I set it up so saying this simply makes Alexa turn on the plug?

Playlist routine cutting our for no reason

I have a white noise playlist routine that I put together that I play each night, but for the past week it's been stopping for no reason sometime during the night, waking me up. So I have to say stop and then ask it to play the playlist again.

I've no idea why it's stopping as I haven't changed anything. Would creating a new playlist make any difference?

I have an esp32 sketch that is currently controlled via HTML with a fairly simple post function that passes a couple of ints via a post function. The esp32 has a fixed (internal) IP address on my network, I am familiar with the network side of port mapping etc but havent had much luck in finding a simple guide to make an alexa skill that would allow me to interact with my esp32.

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Current implementation:

[IPADDDRESS]/page.html -- simple bootstrap style boxes where you enter the 2 numbers of interest and a button to post. The ints are passed via index.js function into the esp32.

Thoughts:

I am guessing from searching "lambda" might be the route to go pointing alexa to my external IP/port which is fwd to post 80 on my local IP address for the esp32. Are there any simple guides on how to go about implementing this sort of functionality?

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Thank you

Can I change the I don't know response from "hmm, I don't know that one" to something of my own design?

Every time i ask alexa to play one of my apple music playlists it starts playing, it plays a few songs and then it starts playing random other songs that aren't even in the playlist. it just started doing this this week and it never did it before. Is this a problem with the Apple Music skill and if it is is there any way to fix it?

I have noticed that when I ask Alexa to play a nighttime white noise, she whispers her acknowledgement even when I give her the command in normal tones. It’s the only thing she does this with but I can’t figure out why.

Hello, trying to cleanup my Alexa from all the garbage that has been automatically added over time.
I’m trying to remove a skill (BBC News) but when I try to access the skill details, looking for the “disable” button… then I get a message that the BBC News skill no longer exists and no “disable” button is offered.
Even worse, Alexa keeps prompting every morning with unwanted news briefings from the skill that supposedly no longer exists but it’s still listed in under my skills.
Tried chatting with Amazon support, they are just hopeless.
Tried an hard reset of the device, but when added back to the account, that skill pops up again.
Any suggestions???

I've had several routines I've used for years with the old (now discontinued) Alexa Buttons. Though several of those routines still work, the buttons themselves are no longer supported and their behavior has become more erratic over time. But I do love being able to automate tasks using Alexa routines and physical buttons.

Is it possible to replicate this functionality with another Bluetooth or similar button-type-of-device? Or with a single (virtual) button on my iPhone? Does anyone have any elegant solutions that trigger routines in innovative ways?

Hoping to be able to access Tiktok video recipes stored on my NAS

Apologies for the noob question, I haven’t tried to create an Alexa skill before (but I do have a programming background). But I’d like to teach Alexa to respond to a specific phrase (let’s say “Alexa, knock it off” for example) just as she’d respond to “Alexa, stop.” Thanks for your help!

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I have an older Samsung smart TV, which had paired with the Smartthings app. Smarthings has linked to my Alexa account. However, the Alexa Smartthings skill will not discover the TV.

Yes, they're both on the same network. And another smart device (Samsung refrigerator) was easily discovered .

Suggestions?

There's any way that we can create a routine can record audio? may be using a skill?

Can I make a skill in blueprints to ask Alexa a question and she will give me a random answer from a set of multiple answers?

This is like the whose turn skill, but I already use the whose turn skill. Instead of saying Alexa, whose turn is it, I want to ask some thing like whose the best cat?

I already use the whose turn and want to have an additional skill like it, with a different prompt for Alexa.

There are some skill can work as sound recorder?

I would like that after activating a routine, Alexa opens a skill to record the voice of the environment in the place where we are, for example that it records with the echo dot in the living room, or that it records in the echo buds when we go outside We can also activate the skill using the echo frames, like the echo buds, have a microphone, they could record the audio, does anyone know if there is a skill like this?

Anyone knows a skill can play an mp3 from some URL? I want play an mp3 file from Google drive or some another cloud shared file with URL

Hey!

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I haven't been able to play Sirius XM on any of my devices (except the Alexa app) for the past 3 days.

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Anyone else having this problem?

Hi I am having a difficult time enabling proactive events in my Alexa Skill. Here is what I have already done and is working perfectly :

My skill is active in development phase and I am able to discover my smart devices through it, switch on/off using the skill. I am using Google OAuth2 in account linking for my Alexa Skill.

To enable the proactive events, I went to Alexa Developer Console > Build > Permissions > Enabled 'Send Alexa Events'

Then I used Alexa CLI and added this to my skill.json manifest :

"permissions": [

{

"name": "alexa::async_event:write"

},

{

"name": "alexa::devices:all:notifications:write"

}

I have also implemented the event handler in my lambda function and I can see a Alexa.Authorization / Alexa.AcceptGrant request coming into my lambda function, here is how I am handling the directive in my Lambda function :

//AUTHORIZATION ACCEPT GRANT

async function handleAcceptGrant(request, context) {

console.log("REQUEST : ", request);

try {

// Build the response

const response = {

event: {

header: {

namespace: AUTHORIZATION,

name: AcceptGrant,

messageId: createMessageId(),

payloadVersion: '3'

},

payload: {}

},

}

console.log(response);

return response;

// If the directive is not Alexa.Authorization, return an error response

return createErrorResponse('INVALID_DIRECTIVE', 'This skill only supports Alexa.Authorization directives.');

}catch (error) {

console.error('Error handling directive:', error);

return createErrorResponse('INTERNAL_ERROR', 'An internal error occurred while handling the directive.');

}

Response, my lambda function is sending :

{

event: {

header: {

namespace: 'Alexa.Authorization',

name: 'AcceptGrant',

messageId: 'e5c70465-c805-4b49-a3ca-33bee98b9fb3',

payloadVersion: '3'

},

payload: {}

}

}

However, since I made these changes, I am unable to link my account in the Alexa App with my Skill. I also tried to make a post call in Postman to https://api.amazon.com/auth/o2/token with the following fields : grant_type, client_id, client_secret and scope. Where scope="alexa::proactive_events". The response I get from the Amazon server is 'Invalid Scope'.

I am not sure how to proceed and feel lost. Can anyone please help me?

Hi.

I've built a skill that takes two slots: "...to add (generic skill) for (student name)", as I'd read that if a listed skill wasn't in my list it would send the best guess of speech-to-text.

...only it doesn't.

If the skill is not in the list, then the skill simply fails.

I would have to have thousands of scenarios listed for this to work.

Is there a way (in the UK, I understand the Literal slot type is available in the US), for a slot to take generic, undefined text?

TIA.

I am controlling some lights in my house with the help of an Amazon Smart Plug. That won’t work for all the lights in my house, such as the ceiling lights.
Are there lightbulbs that can turn these ceiling fan lights into smart lights?

Hello,

I configured everything in my PC to turn it on with alexa using wolskill. I enabled wol on my motherboard and enable the necessary in the device manager settings. I can power off using triggercmd, and can power on using wolow. But I am not being able to power it on using alexa + wolskill. Can anyone please help me?

Since yesterday I can not control my Philips hue lamps with Alexa anymore. She always says that the skill is disabled. I can not find the Philips hue skill in the skills anymore either. I can find the Philips hue skill on Amazon.com but it cant be linked since my account is from Amazon.de

Does anyone know how I can restore the connection? Thanks!

I made this skill to test GPT rhyming abilities. It will give you 10 free sessions before it starts bugging you to subscribe. Each session you can do multiple raps. Or, subscribe for a one day trial. Happy to hear some feedback. Have fun!

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