Hey that worked! There were two options and the wrong one was selected. Thank you for your help!

Have either of you guys had any luck with this so far? Its pretty sad when a third party system like Firebase Messaging works yet a native implementation does not. Maybe that is what we will have to use (it is free) to build independent watchOS applications of this nature. I just wonder if there any Apple support folks seeing this? The issue is 2 years old now.