You can call this operation to set properties for a specified device. A successful result of calling this API only indicates that IoT Platform has successfully sent a property setting request to the device, but does not indicates that the device SDK has successfully received the request and performed the operation. Only if the device SDK responds to the request and sets the required property, you have successfully set the property for the device.

Request parameters

Name Type Required Description
Action  String   Yes The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to SetDeviceProperty.
IotId string  No

The device ID.

Note If you specify this parameter, ProductKey and DeviceName are not required. IotId is the GUID. Each IotId corresponds to a combination of ProductKey and DeviceName. If you specify both IotId and the combination of ProductKey& DeviceName, the system follows IotId.
ProductKey String  No

The product key of the device.

Note If you specify this parameter, DeviceName is required.
DeviceName String  No

The device name.

Note If you specify this parameter, you must also specify ProductKey.
Items String Yes For more information about the properties that you can set, see Items.
Table 1. Item
Name  Type Description
key String

The identifier of the property that you want to set. To view the property identifier of the device, go to the Define Feature page of the product that the device belongs to in the console.

Note You must specify a read-write property. This setting fails if you specify a read-only property.
value Object The property value. The property value, which must be within the data type and range of the property that you want to set.

Response parameters

Name  Type Description
RequestId String The GUID generated by Alibaba Cloud for the request.
Success Boolean  Indicates whether the call is successful. A value of true indicates that the call is successful. A value of false indicates that the call has failed.
ErrorMessage String The error message returned when the call fails.
Code String The error code returned when the call fails. For more information about error codes, see Error codes.
Data Data The data returned when the call is successful. See the following table Data.
Table 2. Data
Name  Type Description
MessageId String The ID of the message that IoT Platform sends to the device.

Examples

Request example

https://iot.cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/?Action=setDeviceProperty
&ProductKey=al*********
&DeviceName=device1
&Items=%7B%22LightAdjustLevel%22%3A1%7D
&Common Request Parameters

Response example

  • JSON format

    {
  "RequestId":"57b144cf-09fc-4916-a272-a62902d5b207",
  "Success": true,
  "Data": {
	  "MessageId":"abcabc123"
  }
}

  • XML format

    <? xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'? >
<SetDevicePropertyResponse>
    <RequestId>57b144cf-09fc-4916-a272-a62902d5b207</RequestId>
    <Success>true</Success>
    <Data>
	 <MessageId>abcabc123</MessageId>
    </Data>
</SetDevicePropertyResponse>