Octovox Alexa Skill not showing in search results

[ashleycawley]

The 'Octovox' skill does not show up for me here in the UK when I search the Alexa Skills section in neither the iOS App nor the alexa.amazon.co.uk website.

I'm guessing perhaps it may be a country based restriction at this point? Do you need to enable the Skill to be accessible in more counteries or is it yet to be approved in the UK?

Thanks for your time and sharing of this wonderful Plugin.

[johnnyruz]

@ashleycawley thanks for letting me know. I have the distribution set to "All Countries and Regions Where Alexa Distributes Skills" so it should be available, but I'm definitely looking into this and will let you know what I find.

[citarone]

Is there a chance that it will also be translated into German?

[dronkos]

I can also confirm this, i am not able to find it in the UK skills section, also not in the german one.

Bounced up and down my seat of happyness when i saw u created this tho :D

[stewienoise]

Hi, same issue on the Italian skills section. I can find it only on amazon.com but it doesn't let me add the skill.
If translation is needed, I guess we'll all be glad to help if possible, otherwise we'll be patient
Thank you for your work

[rocky00717]

Also cannot find it in Canada

[johnnyruz]

So I have an update to this. It turns out that since this uses account linking you have to explicitly publish the skill to each individual region. I have just submitted a request to publish the skill to all English speaking regions (English (IN), English (AU), English (US), English (CA), English (UK)). Hopefully it's a quick approval process since nothing is changing in the code or Skill behavior.

I will also work on (and maybe enlist some help from the community!) to create some translations in order to publish skills to ALL regions in the appropriate languages.

[iviar]

So I have an update to this. It turns out that since this uses account linking you have to explicitly publish the skill to each individual region. I have just submitted a request to publish the skill to all English speaking regions (English (IN), English (AU), English (US), English (CA), English (UK)). Hopefully it's a quick approval process since nothing is changing in the code or Skill behavior.

I will also work on (and maybe enlist some help from the community!) to create some translations in order to publish skills to ALL regions in the appropriate languages.

Did you see the following documentation? (it looks like lambda function region has a mapping "EU (Ireland)" for europe+india endpoint region)

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smarthome/develop-smart-home-skills-in-multiple-languages.html#deploy

Thanks for the plugin, I can translate what is needed into italian now (I'm too impatient to see it working) :-)

[johnnyruz]

Did you see the following documentation? (it looks like lambda function region has a mapping "EU (Ireland)" for europe+india endpoint region)

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smarthome/develop-smart-home-skills-in-multiple-languages.html#deploy

Thanks for the plugin, I can translate what is needed into italian now (I'm too impatient to see it working) :-)

Yep! That's the English (IN) region and I've targeted that with the deployment as well!

[xyzo]

Hi, same issue for me for german users. The skill is not showing up.
And I could help translating it as well if needed... :-)

[johnnyruz]

I just got a confirmation e-mail back from Amazon that the skill should now be live in the following regions: English (IN), English (AU), English (US), English (CA), English (UK). I would love feedback if that is indeed the case.

[rocky00717]

Not in CA yet

[johnnyruz]

Not in CA yet

If you hit this link do you see it?

[rocky00717]

@johnnyruz yes I can see it through the browser but not the iphone app.

[johnnyruz]

@johnnyruz yes I can see it through the browser but not the iphone app.

Alright, if you enable the skill through that browser (I assume linked to your Amazon Account) does it then work on your Alexa App and Echo Devices? I'm wondering if it's just a timing thing where the store takes awhile to actually update.

[rocky00717]

@johnnyruz yes all is working once I enable it through the browser.

[johnnyruz]

Fantastic! Thank you @rocky00717.

Hopefully it appears in the store soon! But in the meantime here a links to the app in the browser for the available regions. You should be able to enable it from there!

Australia
Canada
India
UK
US

[dronkos]

i can confirm that UK version works. Thank you!!

[leon-th]

I could translate it to German if someone tells me where to find the voice / text files.
Leon T

[ashleycawley]

I see it now in the UK Skills! Just enabled and gona try setup.

[ashleycawley]

It is now working for me in the UK :-) Time to get to know this Plugin! Thank you once again.

[iviar]

I see you closed the issue, but It is still not showing in the italian (it) region and possibly whole Europe region: Germany (de), Switzerland (ch), etc..