How to implement the Report State API for Smart Home

Key Takeaways

hey i'm julius and i'll cover implementing the report state api for smart home in this video let's get started report state enables developers to proactively report to google the latest status of the user's devices to home graph rather than google issuing a query intent before and execute this minimizes queries to reduce latency and limit network congestion ensure to provide the complete state data for your given trait home graph updates state per trait and overwrites all data for that given trait when a report state call is made all devices must also report online state for when the device is online and offline report state also enables developers to push state changes not issued by the smart home api like when a user turns on the tv via remote or uses the device's mobile app to adjust brightness of the lights here is a sample payload of reports8 showing a light set to 65 brightness and the color red within a device type it will contain traits with current states here is a smart light set to a warm white at a brightness of 65 percent each device must be explicitly declared whenever or not it will report state in the sync response thanks for watching the overview of report state this is julius signing off