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Elmar Hinz edited this page Jan 8, 2023 · 13 revisions

Frequently Asked Questions

A list of common questions and answers. This is intended to ensure that the installation guide does not grow exponentially and instead serves as a common place to answer common questions.

Skill Linking Fails

This might mean that for whatever reason that Amazon's authentication servers cannot communicate with your Home Assistant installation to setup the account linking. Verify your Account Linking configuration, or switch to use long lived tokens as described in Alexa Talking to Home Assistant (The Skill)

Alexa cannot find your skill

Make sure the language of the skill matches the language settings of your targeted device. (Language settings can be done in the Alexa App for each Echo device.)

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Ensure that the invocation name under intents has been changed from change me to anything you want to use.

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Build and deploy both interaction model and code.

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When testing in the developer console use the language and the invocation name you did choose.

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Open your Alexa App and check that the skill has been installed.

Which version of Python is the skill running?

At the moment of checking the docs: 3.7

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If you get an error with the skills response:

For the URL make sure you are using an external URL and not your personal internal IP that you use to access the HA dashboard.

Make sure you setup port forwarding to let HA communicate to outside your firewall.

Go to this video and watch how to port forward, create a URL, and setup the DNS in Home Assistant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBcGl7Vq8s