Someone may have posted this before but it would be nice if the WIKI were updated to add the 'missing' step:

After fighting for too long to try to change the default name of a variable to one that was humanly recognizable, I finally found what I had missed, not made clear in the WIKI!

Open the appropriate variables page, in my case the state variables.

Click on the line of the variable you want to name, it turns red.

Click on the name box, which turns white, type what you want for a name (I still don't know must it start with a $ (yes I could have experimented) nor what the maximum length of the name is. But I changed the name in the box

The instructions say you must save it, so I clicked on the "save" box on the bottom of the page. But when I closed it and reopened it, it hadn't saved it.

Why, because of the missing, not instructed step: After changing it, you must click on the line again (turning the whole line red again) before saving it.

Then it will be saved and appear with the new name where it is used.

If the WIKI were amended to add that you have to click on the line again after changing the name before saving, it might save people like me from hours of frustration!

I'm not sure who is in charge of the Wiki. It would be nice to know the process of how it is changed/updated.

Ross

Another issue with changing the default variable names: The change doesn't flow automatically through to the Amazon Echo data on the portal. It almost does, the portal has the new names but doesn't update the line that links the variables to Alexa names until you click on it. Then it updates without you having to actually enter anything.

Almost but not quite, and again nothing in the WIKI saying you need to do this. You find out because Alexa seems to respond to your command but nothing happens.