@aldadic Does your Skill work with Show 15. I created the skill as described in your documentation and everything works fine in the testing in the developer console.
When I’m calling the skill on my Echo show 15, Alexa recognizes it and starts something but the screen is black.
Do you have any idea, what could be wrong?
Does someone else successfully tested it with Show 15?
Thanks for the help.
Hi @Hansi2000! Unfortunately, I have no idea why it’s not working for you. I don’t have an Echo Show 15, so I can’t test it, but there were some replies in this thread where people stated that they got the skill to work on their Echo Show 15.
works for me on the 15. how are you triggering it, with a routine?
When I click on your blueprint tag I get a error. How else can I find it
Thank for for this. I set it up using your instructions and it’s working great in test on the website and also on my second gen Show 8. My show 5 (3rd gen) doesn’t like it though and I just get a black screen and if I try to invoke Alexa again (even something completely different) it says “You have triggered the fallback intent”.
I can only escape from this by swiping down and pressing the home button. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks!
Hey Aldadic, great work! I’m almost wanting to buy an Echo Show just for this!
Quick question - How often does this page update or is it real-time? For example I have my unifi doorbell and some cameras as part of my HomeAssistant dashboard. Would they be updated in real time or only when the skill reloads every X mins?
anyone got it working on echo show 5 3d gen?
Works perfect on my SHow 5.
I do not care about it staying open or anything.
From my document I leave for guests:
For the Home Automation system there are many entry points, any one of these will open the intended screen but all other screens are accessible for the other down the left side. These apply if you are in the kitchen and are talking to the Alexa Show touchscreen there. These are the most common complete utterances you can say in the Kitchen:
These all work perfect and launch Silk to the correct page.
wow, wich gen is your show 5?
Mine only opens a black screen and nothing happens, when using the external URL from HA, almost work, it loads HA logo but keep loading the spinner forever and nothing happens also…
I managed to access HA in silk browser without the skill and works fine 
Sorry, my Bad. ( was mistaken, I have Echo Show 8s not 5s. They are 2nd Gen, 2021 release.
Maybe the issue lies in the version of APL. See:
You can see Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) does not yet support 2023.3. It is not clear to me what version refers to here, maybe the author can comment … but maybe playing with the version and trying 1.2 (OpenURL requires minimally 1.1):
{
"type": "APL",
"version": "1.6",
"description": "Empty APL document.",
"settings": {},
"theme": "dark",
"import": [],
"resources": [],
"styles": {},
"onMount": [],
"graphics": {},
"commands": {},
"layouts": {},
"mainTemplate": {
"items": [
{
"type": "Text",
"height": "100vh",
"textAlign": "center",
"textAlignVertical": "center",
"text": ""
}
]
}
}
If I look here at the Amazon sample:
It uses what seems to be a better version number … “2023.3”. I would try changing that in the template.json file to “2023.2” for your 3rd Gen Show 5 and see what happens. I would be very interested as I was just about to order them at the current super-cheap price. But only if that works.
I would say that this could solve the problem and the author (@aldadic) should comment. Version “1.6” is probably meaningless and defaults to “2023.3”. See this cheatsheet, which clearly states version should be like “2023.3”. As the 3rd Gen Show 5 only supports “2023.2”, maybe change it and test???
Now wading through the documentation, “version” 1.6 is old. Now I would really suggest you change to “version” 2023.2 for your device and test. Not sure it will work but maybe more modern version should be referenced (i.e. the latest supported on the device).
See:
Tested both on 1.6 and “2023.3” and same black screen, thats sad, maybe it is a Echo limitation
Also tested “2023.2” cause it seems to be released to 5 but no success either.
Bummer. Must be. I guess I am dropping those Show 5s from my Amazon Cart!!!
As an wild guess and it doesn;t hurt to try, maybe go for 1.1 as the version.
That is I believe the first version that supports OpenURL.
Maybe backwards (and not forwards) does the trick.
I have a IP camera stream in the HA dashboard; this keeps Silk open on the Echo Show
I use the ‘‘My Page’’ skill to open the desired HA Dashboard on the Echo Show.
( Amazon.com: MyPage : Alexa Skills )
And after adding the web adress to ''My Page" I create a routine in the Alexa app:
Routine name: ‘‘example’’
When this happens: Alexa, ‘‘example’’
Add action: ‘‘open My Page and load page 1’’
I’m getting an “error has occurred” response from my echo show. I followed the instructions to the letter and double-checked. I have no idea where to start looking for the error?
Is the URL perfectly cut off in the picture or is it missing :8123 port? Also I would test with IP address.
I have followed the guide twice (in case I made a mistake) and only get “There was a problem with the requested skill’s response”
I went into Test tab and looked at Device Log but am not really familiar enough to troubleshoot. Where should I begin?
It would be incredible not to be limited to saying numbers only. A simple change of the Slot Type to AMAZON.AlphaNumeric navigates to /None?kiosk. Please, share what else is needed for this fix. Thank you!
The work around for this is using a routine. In the Alexa App set up a routine with whatever you want to say, i.e. open my chore list, then in the “Alexa Will” section put what you would have said to trigger that page. i.e. “tell dashboard viewer open page 16”. That should let you use any phrase you want to open any page you want, still using the numbers from the url.
