Get unique device id for every amazon echo devices

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rpajaziti picture rpajaziti · Jul 13, 2016 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I need to make a Custom Skill for the Alexa Skills Kit, which should be one echo device in every room. I need to get the device_id for every echo device. I heard this isn't possible, but maybe it changed, or if not is there any other way around.

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Nick Stefanisko picture Nick Stefanisko · Apr 5, 2017

You can do it now! context:System:device:deviceId

As far as I can tell it only works on real devices. So if you are testing in the developer's Skills Manager you don't get the field, but when used with a real Alexa device, it works.

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