Stop/pause/resume playback

[drizzt09]

I have successfully set it up and its finding and playing the songs requested.
"Alexa, Ask Youtube to play artist title"

However during playback if i say any of these:
Alexa, stop
Alexa, ask Youtube to stop
Alexa, ask Youtube to pause

She always responds with:
"You are not playing anything currently"

Also on a side note... If i want o switch to my own Heroku its only the URL i have to change in the AWS Lambda index.js?
// Set Heroku URL
var heroku = process.env.HEROKU_APP_URL || "https://**********.herokuapp.com";

Nothing else requires changing?

[Manav-Seth]

hmm, Alexa, ask Youtube to stop works for me.

[Manav-Seth]

But I am puzzled why Alexa stop does not work? It most likely has to do with shouldEndSession flag not being set?

[drizzt09]

So are there logs I can capture to help find out why

[dmhacker]

Hmm, from my testing, resume/pause works as intended. Stop not working is a known issue; you need to say cancel instead for unknown reasons.

As for changing the Heroku URL, just set the HEROKU_APP_URL environment variable in your Lambda server.

[jarobar435]

I just done your Setup Process tutorial recently and also got the problem with pause/stop/resume commands.
I am able to use commands "Alexa pause" and then "Alexa resume" for once each track. Then everything goes wrong ("You are not playing anything currently"...) - I have no control over the playback anymore - can't pause or stop it anyway. So literally that means I have to listen to it till very end or unplug my Echo Dot.
So it seems to be the problem with "resume" not setting some kind of flag/boolean.
If you need any detailed feedback - I'm at your service.

(If you're wondering whether I tried the full version "Alexa ask YouTube to pause/resume" then yes, I did - problem still occures)

[dmhacker]

Yeah, that functionality is a bit buggy; I'm still working out some of the kinks. Try saying "cancel" rather than "pause" or "stop" to completely shutdown the skill if things get out of hand. Let me know if that helps.