I’m sure you’re right. I had assumed there was a problem with the interaction model because my test did not work. Then I thought maybe I needed to rediscover my devices in the Alexa app or something and that’s when I realized the problem was my device (an Iris door/window sensor) is not showing up as a device under Alex. I just did some Googling and found this thread that is relevant to my problem. Is there something special I need to configure in Ask Alexa to make it work with this sensor?
Thanks for your help thus far! I’m more of a graphics/front-end guy and don’t know much about how things work behind the scenes but I must say that you’re documentation is very through and helpful. I noticed some of the Amazon UIs have changed since you wrote it so please feel free to use any of my screenshots above if you decide to update it. Here’s another one of the “var” section if you’re interested (looked like the line numbers have been updated).