Getting a skill approved that requires identifying a user but cannot user OAuth due to limited user input.

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Nozza87 asked · Aug 27, 2016 at 05:17 AM

Getting a skill approved that requires identifying a user but cannot user OAuth due to limited user input.

Hi,

I am trying to get a skill approved that needs to identify users.

I cannot use OAuth due to the hardware i am using having limited user input capabilities.

Currently i am hashing a users id and then displaying a card to the user where they manually copy and paste the hash to the programming application that controls the hardware. This all works fine however my skill got rejected because of it.

I could run my own authentication between the hardware and my server and then OAuth between my server and Alexa but that is no different from doing it how i am now except for adding extra unnecessary steps to the process as the hardware and my server both need a way of linking an Alexa user between each other.

Does anyone have a solution for what i can do?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-30T00:18:41Z

KirkC@Amazon answered · Aug 30, 2016 at 12:18 AM · ACCEPTED ANSWER

Hello Nozza87. It looks like you've provided some feedback to our certification team though a contact us case. That feedback has been escalated internally and if we need any further clarifying information, we'll be in touch though that channel.

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