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Very confused with integrating proactive events API to a skill

I want my Alexa to receive notifications from my skill. I've read through countless amounts of resources and nothing makes sense. One tutorial from Dabble Lab and another one from the official GitHub for Alexa wants me to setup with AWS along with all of this code while the tutorial for proactive events just wants me to modify the skill.json file and then do API calls (I think)? How do I actually get this working? I'm using nodeJS, I also don't know how to modify the skill.json file, I try to download the code and make my changes to the json file, but it won't let me upload the changes.

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Andy Whitworth answered

Yes, you need to amend your skill.json file to add the Proactive event schema name you're looking to use. Is your skill an Alexa hosted one or are you using your own AWS resources ?


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John Harris avatar image John Harris commented ·
I'm just using the Alexa developer console on the website.
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John Harris avatar image John Harris John Harris commented ·
I'm just following the guide on github and getting everything setup. I'm stuck on the AWS section though as its having trouble running the bash script. It says the chmod command wont work and that the script has errors aswell.
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Andy Whitworth avatar image Andy Whitworth John Harris commented ·
Which github guide ? Perhaps you can post up a link + details of the step you're having issues with.
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