According to the support team, from July 2024 developers will no longer be able to earn rewards for their skills. It seems now the only way to make money with Alexa skills is in skill purchasing.

I recently bought one and it has a camera but I can't figure out how the video calls work on this thing

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• Where: Remote (via Zoom)
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Kindly provide me with the exact steps to enable ADB debugging on an Echo 15 device.

Hi!

I am working on a personal project that involves a device running on an ESP32 microcontroller. The device is meant to track medicine. The device has the following components- ESP32, a push button, a speaker, and an LED. Every time a user takes some meds, they press the button the a timestamp goes to AWS where it gets stored.

Right now this is the process but i want to make it simpler.

I'm setting up a soft access point on the ESP
Going to 192.168.4.1, and entering my home's wifi name and password.
I then send those details to the ESP through the access point and the device then connects to my home wifi router.
It works great for someone who knows how to do these steps.

The problem right now is that the device is meant to be used by old people, which means they most probably do not know their wifi name or password. Even if I can direct them to go to 192.168.4.1, they will most likely not know the details to enter.

I recently saw a video of a person setting up their Amazon Echo through a companion app. It most probably also used a soft access point, but then the user just selected the protected wifi network, did not need to enter the password, and the echo was connected to the protected network somehow..?

There has to be a way to make this simpler. I'm not very knowledgeable in networks so any help is appreciated!

hello please help me.. PLEASE HELP ME!!! It's been a few years since we bought alexa exho show first generation for my grandmother, and it's been 1 month since she can't connect to skype. As soon as someone calls, the camera does not open and after 4 seconds it closes. I did everything, factory reset, update skype, update alexa version, wifi changes, I opened another account and it doesn't open again. I don't know how to act as this is worrying us a lot, and how have you solved it, PLEASE

How do I keep the volume at the highest level. I use it as my alarm clock I have bad hearing and it’s connected to a speaker which is plenty load enough when the dots volume is set to the max the problem is that it always decreases to a lower setting

Everytime I ask to play a song or a piece, it would say, “choosing songs are only available for spotify premium subscribers.” It plays a recommended song and my phone gets notified that spotify is plating a song and its using my Echo as a speaker. So it is connected but why does Echo still says that?

Edit: it would also say, “playing albums are only available for spotify premium subcribers. But try this…”

I am planning to implement an endpoint to show the bus times from the stop close to my apartment. Do you know if it is possible to configure a skill/routine/whatever that can do a request and read the text results?

Thank you in advance.

Alexa skill development used to be supported on Amazon's Developer Forums but it looks like they've been removed, at least for Alexa-related support. All the links I had just redirect now to https://developer.amazon.com/support . It looks like they're just redirecting everyone to StackOverflow for support questions. Is that really the case now or am I missing something? The forums were nice since most responses tended to come from actual Amazon/Alexa employees who would open bug tickets and keep you updated on their status, etc. Is that level of support possible on SO? I realize Amazon gutted the Alexa team a while back so I'm guessing the forums were just another casualty.

Hi,

I have a small home business teaching guitar. I developed an Alexa skill to help me keep track of what people are learning etc..

I say to it, "Alexa, ask The Guitar Tracker what [insert forename here] is working on", and usually, it would respond with "[name] is working on ascending intervals" (or whatever)

I update it by saying "Alex, tell the guitar track to add progress for [name]" - it then asks me what that student is working on, I reply and it adds it to the database. It then uses the ChatGPT API to trawl through my database of worksheets and videos and suggests relevant things to be posted to the student's portal so they can log in and see them.

...only for certain names, it's stopped passing through any data in the slot.

Some names continue to work fine - "Dave" for example works, as does "Steve", but "Jason" and "Florence" have all stopped being passed through, so my skill returns that it can't find any data from them (which it wouldn't as when I check the logs that slot data is empty).

Has there been some kind of update recently? This worked until a couple of days ago.

I'm considering changing it to use both forename and surname (it's not quite as elegant, but I need it to work), but the issue I have there is that I can't figure out which slot type to use as there isn't one for "AMAZON.ForenameAndSurname" :p

Can anyone shed any light on this?

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Hey all,

I'm currently working on developing my first Alexa skill. The idea is simple.

1. Record the current volume of the alexa system (whether an echo or pop etc..)
2. Set the volume to 10
3. Play a notification
4. Set the volume back to the previous state

I'm currently struggling to work out how to get the current volume and have been looking through the docs and not found any help. Apparently Alexa.Speaker may be what I'm looking for, but I can't seem to access it from my custom skill, unless I'm missing something.

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Thanks for any help.

Hi! I’m so confused. Autoplay is turned off. But everytime I get a notification or ask Alexa a question, after she talks / answers it, Spotify starts playing! It’s so annoying and I don’t know how to stop her from doing that.

‘Alexa, what time is it?’ ‘It’s 7:35pm.’ The most recent song on Spotify starts playing!

Help!

Sometimes, I come home to an empty house but Spotify is playing on my Echo.

Hi! Whenever i plug in the Echo Studio, the main fuse of that electrical line trips. What could be the possible reason for this? Is my cable faulty or did the board inside the device give up?

P.s. I tried using it on different plugs and the issue persists.

Hello,

I am looking for a way to make calls via Alexa with my Watch 5 Pro LTE, independently of a smartphone. Mainly via WiFi. The watch is for my grandmother, who does not have a smartphone, but some Alexa devices. Thanks to the Echo Connect, all landline calls are also received by all Alexa devices, but she can only accept them and make calls if there is a Bluetooth connection between the smartwatch and the smartphone. I have already been able to install the Alexa app on the Watch 5, but as I said, there must be a Bluetooth connection to the phone for calls. I'm not an expert, but I just can't imagine why it shouldn't be technically possible to register a smartwatch as an end device with Alexa in order to be able to make calls. Quite independently of a smartphone. The hardware for this is built into the watch, isn't it? Can anyone enlighten me on this?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards

I'm writing a story on Alexa and I'm trying to understand the fees. Are you paying $0.50 for each device? For each user interaction with the Alexa cloud? How does that work?

Hello everybody,

i have recently bought a 1st gen echo device and i have tried to connect it but it is not being able to connect to my home wifi, i have passed a little less than 2 hours on customer service and nobody was able to help me, i have done everything (factory reset, trying with my hotspot, etc)

basically when i put in the wifi password of my network and click connect it loads for a little bit and then takes me back to the wifi panel and tells me there is an error with my password (there is not) and the echo sais something and turns purple.

unfortunately it is in german and google translator does not pick up what it sais so i have no idea

Please help i have no idea how to proceed

edit: i have managed to make it do something: when i try to connect to it and i chose "use this phone as hotspot" for the wifi it takes me to the process and it finishes saying that everything is done, however it does not stop the orange light and the wifi remains on, a couple of times it prompted me with the initial setup for the alexa (group and location) but then it got back to the app and it was not in my devices, i have seen from my phone that it has connected to my wifi hotspot but then when i have tried to reboot it it did not connect anymore

edit 1: spent the last 2 hours looking in to what i believe is every possible reddit post related to this issue, i have found out that many have solved it with the web interface using alexa.amazon.com which right now only prompts me to scan a qr code that will open the alexa app on my device thus useless, otherwise there is the possibility to try and connect it as a tap device, which for me does not work, i have no idea how to solve this, i am now 10 hours in to trying to make it work and i have done so little progress, it is frustrating, but i will continue

edit 2: i have given up, i have tried many older versions of the app and nothing seems to work, i believe hat amazon has just decided to not make them usable anymore, i believe that this is beyond any doubt planned obsolescence and nothing more.

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tldr: if you have an echo 1st gen that does not connect to wifi anymore after a reset or something you cannot do anything and you now have a useless piece of plastic

I have paired 2x 4th gen echo dots. When Iisten to Amazon music or the radio they work well with stereo sound. The problem I have is I also have them connected to my PC via Bluetooth but when I listen to anything from my PC only 1 echo gives sound. The strange thing is when I plug my headphones in via the 3.5mm audio jack I have stereo sound in my headphones. Can anyone help me understand why it's not working or give me a solution? Thanks in advance.

Hey guys! I started programming for Alexa recently. My question:

I added the Intents AMAZON.YesIntent and AMAZON.NoIntent in the Build tab and compiled, I created the constants for each Intent (YesIntentHandler and NoIntentHandler) in the javascript code and I am also exporting the handlers at the end of the code. But when I try it, it doesn't seem to even recognize whether I say Yes or No. It just makes a noise and <Audio only response> appears.
Can someone help me? Thanks.

const YesIntentHandler = {
    canHandle(handlerInput) {
        return Alexa.getRequestType(handlerInput.requestEnvelope) === 'IntentRequest'
            && Alexa.getIntentName(handlerInput.requestEnvelope) === 'AMAZON.YesIntent';
    },
    handle(handlerInput) {
        RocketRadarIntentHandler();
    }
};

const NoIntentHandler = {
    canHandle(handlerInput) {
        return Alexa.getRequestType(handlerInput.requestEnvelope) === 'IntentRequest'
            && Alexa.getIntentName(handlerInput.requestEnvelope) === 'AMAZON.NoIntent';
    },
    handle(handlerInput) {
        const speakOutput = 'Ok. Até a próxima.';

        return handlerInput.responseBuilder
            .speak(speakOutput)
            .reprompt(speakOutput)
            .getResponse();
    }
};

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Is the echo Dots able to wireless . I’m looking for a speaker to take to the beach, any suggestions ??

Ok. So i'm an hobbyist coder and mostly an electronics engineer that's trying to build a presense sensor that works with alexa. I usually use Sinric Pro for connecting my IoT devices with alexa but I want to try to develop my own alexa skill, but it all seems a lil confusing. So can anyone tell me a basic blueprint or the steps involved so i can research and learn step by step whatever is required to make it work?

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Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced!

I realize this isnt the best place for this, but im desperate at this point...

About 2 months ago, most of my echo devices started saying that they are not connected to the internet. I work in tech and am pretty proficient at troubleshooting things, so i ran through all the basic steps; rebooting, power cycle, reset, reboot router, blah blah blah... nothing worked.

When i investigated further i found that according to my eero network, all of the devices that say theyre disconnected are acrually connected.

These devices can tell me the time, and the ones that have screens show the correct time. If i get a package notification to my system, all of these "offline" devices receive the notification, but if i ask what it is, they say they are offline.

I created a new amazon account and registered a couple of these devices to that account and they work perfectly on the new account.

Amazon customer service has been completely useless. I have combed thru every device, wifi and account setting to try to find something that might be the cause... nothing works, so im turning to all of you. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way to fix it?

PLEASE HELP

Soundbar yamaha ATS 2090 in the same network as an Echo dot 5th generation, but cannot be grouped, the alexa app always indicates that both devices are not in the same network.

I have checked this several times,

I have a Fritzbox 6660 cable router.

the ATS is connected via 2.5ghz channel on the same network/ssid wifi as the echo dot. only the echo dot is connected via 5ghz channel.

is it a general incompatibility with the ATS or is it the different channels?, which i would be more surprised about.

i can put both in the same room (within the alexa app), but i only ever get then a response from one device.

if i give both devices different reaction names, i can access both of them. but never in sync, so i can have one of the two devices play the same music.

Hello,

I want to call an URL like:

http://139.59.206.173/GWGbi9ucvQLN/update/V3?value=1

with Alexa.

Is there a skill which can make this.

It´s for an older blync.cc - Project.

Thank you, Duffy

Hi everyone,

We have a device with an Alexa skill created. It's working well.

However, in the guided discovery (Add Device) of the Alexa App, we can't search or see our brand name. Does anyone know how to add our brand there?

Thanks.

Hey everyone,

I developed a skill that has been published and people are using it. I just can't see it in the Alexa store. It has been already more than 3 weeks! Can someone help me understand what is going on?

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Thank you!

"Alexa, GetSound" - This is all you have to say.

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Today we're thrilled to announce launching our first AI soundscapes & ambient music engine skill for Amazon Alexa available in the US, CA, AU, UK, and IN.

With Getsound skill, you can stream 24/7 infinite personalized soundscapes & ambient music just for this moment in time, for your location, weather, time of day, and more.

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https://skills-store.amazon.com/deeplink/dp/B0B21L5QLH

Please feel free to share your thoughts and idea

is it possible to have an Alexa app/skill that looks at a public calendar (for example a Google calendar) and simply plays an audio file for every event in that calendar?

I'm trying to build an Alexa Skill that will read the data that I scrape off a website using the Beautiful Soup Library. How do I go about turning this python script into a skill?