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Jonjon,

I admire your perseverance. It really is appreciated!

You didn't mention the language setting found in the Alexa app (Setting > Device > Language (under wake word)). Is that set to English (US)? That is the thing that needs to match the language setting on the Skill in the dev console. I don't think the "device location" setting has any effect.

It is already set to English US, yes.

3. one Skill with the invocation name Kodi that is in the My Skills section of the Alexa app and no Smart Devices also called Kodi for some reason?

Definitely. One skill called kodi, with the invocation name kodi, that is in the My Skills section of the Alexa app, and no Smart Devices called kodi anywhere.

Does Alexa hear and understand (convert to text in your history) the command exactly as you say it? I don't know if you have an accent or how much that would effect things, have you had trouble with other Skills?

Yes. Some of the commands featured in my history read:

tell kodi to play a random movie (doesn't work)
turn the lights on (this works)
is it gonna snow in oslo norway today (this works)
tell kodi to play (doesn't work)

But the kodi command has worked. This is the thing, there've been a couple of times where it's worked for a couple hours, and then it just completely stops working the next day. I don't have an accent particularly.

Thanks for going to the effort of screengrabbing your setup. Mine looks pretty much identical, except for the fact that I'm using US servers.

I have had one thought about what it might be though. When I first got my dot, I did some stuff with the API to try to change the timezone, and the location, to Norway. Changing the timezone is possible, location not so much.

So maybe I need to undo anything I did there? A factory reset perhaps, if such a thing is possible? Will that restore the API back to its default state?