"An error occurred while attempting to link Alexa" - how to debug? about alexa-smarthome HOT 10 CLOSED

OK, solved: I'm an idiot. I had an incorrect lambda handler function specified (lambda_function.lambda_handler, not lambda.lambda_handler), which I found when I tried explicitly testing my lambda.

@briankel Suggestion for the documentation: at the end of the "Create the Lambda function" section, before "Configure skill", I suggest adding a step of explicitly testing your lambda to check it has been correctly configured.

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For me, the issue was that I used Python 2.7 instead of Python 3.6 in Lambda. That change fixed it for me.

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Please check your CloudWatch logs for any clues.
Please also make sure you added the redirect URI for your authentication provider. (in the instructions see "Provide Redirect URL's to LWA:"

Regarding your other question, Alexa is only supported as a trigger in specific AWS regions. For Europe you should be able to make this work in eu-west-1.

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Thanks for the reply.

I believe I have the redirect URIs set up correctly: under Developer Console->Apps & Services->Security Profiles->->Web Settings then I have three allowed return URLs:

https://layla.amazon.com/api/skill/link/<code>
https://pitangui.amazon.com/api/skill/link/<code>
https://alexa.amazon.co.jp/api/skill/link/<code>

which match those configured for the redirect URLs under Developer Console->Alexa->->Configuration.

Cloudwatch is enabled for my lambda, but is not showing any attempted accesses, and there are no traces showing up in X-Ray. I can't see any way to add Cloudwatch logs to my skill. Is there a way to do so?

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Hmm...
No, you can't add CloudWatch to your skill specifically - just to the Lambda.
I don't have any immediate ideas for you, just to go back to the 15-minute skill instructions and make sure you've followed each step exactly. There are a lot of steps and it's easy to miss one. If I think of other ideas I'll post them back here.

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HI Calum,

Were you able to fix this issue you had? Facing with the same and came across this ticket. Appreciate any help.

Thanks
Sindhu

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Same issue here @briankel.

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Still no success. I wondered if it might be down to the issues raised in #28 so went through it again with an English (UK) skill and an EU (Ireland) lambda, but precisely the same error is occurring.

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Quick note for anyone else running into similar issue... for me, creating my lambda function in us-east-1 instead of us-west-2 (my default) made it work.

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Same issue here @briankel

I have no idea to fix it.
I can't see any Cloudwatch logs about it.

Thanks

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