Amazon Alexa Smart Home Skill Manual Setup Configuration Issues

[MarkB1 (Mark Booth)]

So I am trying to setup the following

Amazon Alexa

I have Duck DNS and NGINX configured and working.

I can get as far as the test Lambda function

I set the BASE_URL as my duckdns, https://redacted.duckdns.org

I generated a long live acces token from here

copy pasted into

So when I go to test I get as far as

{
“event”: {
“payload”: {
“type”: “INVALID_AUTHORIZATION_CREDENTIAL”,
“message”: “401: Unauthorized”
}
}
}

I have tried a couple of times from scratch in case I have missed domething in the instructions but same result both times/

Any suggestions?

[philb (Philip Bowers)]

I ran into the same issue and spent many a wasted hour searching for an answer.
To keep anyone else from doing the same, here is what i did. (short answer: keep going)

If you are following this guide https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa.smart_home/ when it gets to the test phase "click Configure test events, you can Create new test event using following data:"

If it comes back with the above mentioned response of
“type”: “INVALID_AUTHORIZATION_CREDENTIAL”,

As long as you have followed the guide up to this point and generated the LONG_LIVED_ACCESS_TOKEN continue on to the next step in the guide it will work.

I have attached the two size home assistant images below, to integrate into the Alexa interface (if they show up).

[kalyway101]

I’m honestly surprised more people have not had this issue. Thank you for the response!