Removed and reinstalled Amazon Echo skill - no longer works at all

I was having issues with my echo skill getting information from the hubitat (the amazon service was not getting info when my garage door contacts would go on or off but everything else oddly was working).

I deleted the amazon echo skill on the hub, rebooted it, removed the hubitat skill in my primary amazon account. I then re-enabled and re-linked the skill. IT WORKED, fixed the problem. An hour later without touching anything, the Echo skill has completely lost its connection between amazon and the hub. This is what I get in the logs every time I try to command alexa to turn anything on or off:

Received cloud request for App 1 that does not exist, path: /device/558 from 34.200.222.96

That IP is amazon AWS.

Can someone help me out here? I already tried to delete the echo app and unlink the skill and re-install numerous times without a fix. I had no problems for years before this and did not change anything else.

Edit: If I try to disable and then re-enable the echo skill through the amazon app everything appears to work normally there, but my logs show this at that same time:

[app:1565](http://redacted/logs#)2022-11-27 04:28:00.640 PM[error](http:/redacted/logs#)Error making Call to Alexa message gateway: {"header":{"namespace":"System","name":"Exception","messageId":"c0bb5502-7ccd-4db1-a645-610f015df25f"},"payload":{"code":"INVALID_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXCEPTION","description":"Access token is not valid."}}

Remove the skill from alexa.amazon.com. log out. Reboot alexa(s) Log back in to alexa.amazon.com and readd the skill and make sure it reauthorizes on hubitat.com

This error means something is still trying to connect to App #1 which presumably was the Alexa app that you deleted. When you reinstall it, it gets a new instance ID number.

I think as @rlithgow1 stated, removing the skill totally, then adding it back again should solve it. Further deleting of the app on the Hubitat side is probably not needed. Just make sure you only have one Alexa app listed in your apps list (not sure if it even lets you install more than one).

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