Fix-It Friday 4/7/2023

Wyze Alexa skill reportedly “expires” without a seamless refresh token

Alexa skills are supposed to be able to use a refresh token. Maybe they’re different from these refresh tokens, but amazon seems to indicate that refresh tokens should be valid indefinitely.

A few searches on Alexa refresh tokens expiring shows this isn’t an uncommon issue with Alexa Skills, but that there seems to be a way to resolve this so that a skill doesn’t “expire” and may require changing some defaults in how the tokens are handled. It would be nice for someone to check into why the Alexa skill is “expiring” for some people instead of automatically using a refresh token seamlessly.

See this thread where it was reported that the skill expired and how it impacted the user experience:

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