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Kieran Goodacre
Kieran Goodacre

Reputation: 157

How to test the amazon alexa custom skill through your alexa enabled device while in development phase?

I have created a skill and would like to test it on the device itself?

I have managed to test it on echosim.io.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 11846

Answers (2)

appsthatmatter
appsthatmatter

Reputation: 6417

On the test step at developer.amazon.com I can enable it for testing: This skill is enabled for testing on your account

I guess you have to use the same amazon account in the alexa app and in the developer console.

You will be able to see your skill in the Skills tab in Alexa App and you can enable the skill and start testing.

[...]

The skill is available in "Skills > Your Skills" page of the Alexa App when you select 'Yes' above. You can then enable the skill and test its functionality by asking Alexa, ...

Upvotes: 14

John Kelvie
John Kelvie

Reputation: 858

We have created a tool just for this case:
https://bespoken.tools/blog/2016/08/24/introducing-bst-proxy-for-alexa-skill-development

Here is a brief visual depiction of how it works:
enter image description here The bst proxy sends requests directly from Alexa to your local development environment. So you can use your Echo device to interact directly with your in-development Alexa skill.

Upvotes: 2

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