While developing alexa skill I have to use 2 different portals (aws console and dev portal). Would be more convenient if I just had one

If you begin a podcast on one device, then stop it there, move to a different device, it would be really great if you had the ability to resume exactly where you left off, as well as being able to fast forward or rewind in the podcast.

When you want to use your employer's brand name as your invocation name, that name is often not a normal English word. This means that the Alexa voice service often can't understand it and the skill can't be triggered.

A workaround is to write a nonsense word that the Alexa voice service can parse as something that sounds like the brand name, but this is not guaranteed to work.

It would be incredibly useful if the invocation name could contain phonetic markup like responses can.

Create a command history. It would be nice that when you hover into the input for typing messages to alexa if you hit the up arrow it will bring you your latest command, a similar feature that you can find in the mac terminal

Need a "number" that supports leading zero's. So when a user enters "012" it reads back "zero one two". The current number type reads back "twelve".

Currently, Suppressed or inactive skills remain in developer accounts and create Clutter.

Allow for Developers to manage and maintain their developer accounts for organization and clarity.

Additionally a suppressed skill in a developer account still shows as "LIVE" which is in accurate this should be adjusted immediately.

When the Echo Show display option is unchecked, you should integrate Alexa app cards if developers send it. Even if you don't want to display cards, you should at least treat the console as a non-screen device allowing devs to see cards property in the output JSON when echo screen is disabled

It would be great if we could connect to a bluetooth device as part of the routine. I.E Connect to bluetooth speaker in another room as part of the "good morning" routune.

- Alexa Good Morning
- Flash Breifing
- Connect to BlueTooth Speaker in bathroom
- Play BBC Radio 1 (will then play through the bluetooth speaker)

Hi Team,

Currently In Alexa Smart Home Skill there is no Api to control Drapes/Curtains.
For Example:
Alexa,open Living Room Curtain
Alexa,close Living Room Curtain

It will be very useful if Smart Home team implement this feature specially for Hotel Automation and also smart home automation.

I have some Flash Briefings for local news. The news providers are creating video, and then ripping the audio out for the Flash Briefing version. It would be great to be able to use the video in the Echo Show.

Bonus points for using the video asset for the audio / non-video Echo devices.

Please allow changing/modification of invocation names.

Having to resubmit a new skill and losing the old users is not really acceptable. We should be allowed to be able to change/tweak the invocation name for various reasons:

- Invocation name is not responding correctly (despite successful testing).
- Change of company/business name

Right now, the account linking portion (using --no-browser) does not work in the Opera browser.

It would be great if the new console's beta testing retained tester emails when beta testing ended, just like the old console's beta testing page.

For example in the old view, when a skill ended either manually or automatically and I tried started it up, previous tester email addresses would prepopulate.

It would be great if we can have this feature within the new console's beta testing page because it made it easier to relaunch without having to find who the old testers were and copying and pasting them in.

It would be wonderful to be able to either set a custom duration for a Beta test of a skill, or to be able to renew a Beta skill test pool without all the users having to click through a new link or email.

My goal would be to create a rule "Alexa, turn on the light", which does not turn on the light in all rooms, but just in the room the echo-device is in.
To solve this, it would be great if i can create routines with multiple-triggers - not only the voice command, but also the device i am talking to.

Secondly the commands should not be unique, so i can create more than one time the routine "turn the light on"

Presently we are able to get the News, Weather, or Traffic in a Routine. But right now we can’t get a simple time-stamp in a Routine. It would be nice if I could verbally trigger a Bedtime Routine that adjusted lights, temperature, and said “It’s 11:23pm. Good night!” It would seem rather simple to add this capability; wouldn’t seem any more difficult than News, Weather, or Traffic.