I have created a skill and would like to test it on the device itself?
I have managed to test it on echosim.io.
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, ...
Once on the “All Skills” page, just look at the upper right of the screen and you will see a link to “Your Skills.” Paydirt! Tap that link and you will be transported to a page listing all the skills you have enabled for Amazon Alexa on your Echo or your Echo Dot.
To test your local skill in the VS Code Alexa simulator In the Alexa Skills Toolkit side bar, click Skills, and then click to open your skill. Click Test skill, and then choose Open simulator.
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.
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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, ...
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:
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.
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