There was a problem with the requested skill's response

[funkho]

I am having trouble with the Alexa skill set up. I was able to pull the updated intent json from issue #200 , and the skill built without issues, but when I go to test, I am getting the generic error of "There was a problem with the requested skill's response".

When I type in for the test "tell gee music to play bombtrack by rage against the machine", here is the json response that I get.

    "body": {
        "version": "1.0",
        "response": {
            "outputSpeech": {
                "type": "PlainText",
                "text": "Playing Bombtrack (Remastered) by Rage Against The Machine"
            },
            "card": {
                "type": "Standard",
                "title": "Playing Bombtrack (Remastered) by Rage Against The Machine",
                "text": "",
                "image": {
                    "smallImageUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NH1urQ8uQib0BZ-P5K3s0NQA564DUKz0MQBcuzehMKtXFAFjoOqBwB8U3B89KaJqaVN70EtDnw",
                    "largeImageUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NH1urQ8uQib0BZ-P5K3s0NQA564DUKz0MQBcuzehMKtXFAFjoOqBwB8U3B89KaJqaVN70EtDnw"
                }
            },
            "directives": [
                {
                    "type": "AudioPlayer.Play",
                    "playBehavior": "REPLACE_ALL",
                    "audioItem": {
                        "stream": {
                            "token": "dce1d820-d74d-462c-b49a-03558a347d74",
                            "url": "http://removed.ngrok.io/alexa/stream/Tu6lqnmlmvopwqakxk3p2xetqni",
                            "offsetInMilliseconds": 0
                        }
                    }
                }
            ],
            "shouldEndSession": true
        },
        "sessionAttributes": {}
    }

I have confirmed that the URL given in the 'audioitem' does play back the stream. (I have removed the URL for this issue).

I thought that perhaps Amazon is requiring https for the response now? I tested and https does work for the URL, but the error from Amazon is so generic that I'm just stabbing in the dark. Any thoughts on what's going wrong here?

[funkho]

More debugging in the console shows that my original thought might be correct...

                            "type": "INVALID_RESPONSE",
                            "message": "The URL specified in the Play directive must be HTTPS"

[funkho]

I found that I had put the non-https URL into my .env file. Fixing that has resolved my Alexa skill issue.

[lordfiSh]

still don't work for me... "There was a problem with the requested skill's response"

If I open the URL "https://removed.ngrok.io/alexa/stream/Tu6lqnmlmvopwqakxk3p2xetqni" it plays the steam just fine

[fergyfresh]

What is your APP_URL?

[fergyfresh]

It is because you don't have a valid CA that the Alexa can decrypt the message with. If you do it over http it should work, or try this fork https://github.com/fergyfresh/geemusic/tree/adds-test and set and additional environment variable ASK_VERIFY_REQUESTS='False'.

[lordfiSh]

thanks for the quick replay @fergyfresh but I did't save the Audio Player Option. Found it Problem in the Alexa Dev Logs

[fergyfresh]

What was the problem for our viewers?