The design has it (section 5) and 2.0 lacked it: a ChangeReport could only be
sent with getChangeReport() of 1.x, which has no helper for a contact or a
motion sensor. fill sets what changed, and after unchanged() what did not;
the rest of the context is the state of device.state(). The report goes to
<root>/changeReport. It throws MessageError without a changed property and
resolves with the failure when the device is on no bridge, as raise() does.
Four tests in test/device/raise.test.js.
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2.0 ignored the first argument of the Device constructor in silence and
had removed setMqttClient(), so a 1.x call threw a TypeError. Both are
deprecated shims now, as the design lists them: setMqttClient() is back
and does nothing, a client given to the constructor is ignored, and each
says once in a process what to do. The line goes to the log hook of the
bridge; a device on no bridge has none and emits a DeprecationWarning
(ALEX2NODE_DEVICE_CLIENT, ALEX2NODE_SET_MQTT_CLIENT).
null and undefined as the client warn nothing: the bridge passes null.
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Six descriptors written from their pages replace the last stubs of tiers 1 and 2. A scene answers Activate and
Deactivate through ctx.respond() with ActivationStarted and DeactivationStarted, the time and the cause filled
in. device.raise(descriptor, name, payload) publishes DoorbellPress and the Event of a button on <root>/event
with the endpoint and a new messageId; it throws a MessageError for an interface or instance the device did
not declare, an event that answers a directive, a payload that does not fit and a message over 16000 bytes.
TurnOn of a device with WakeOnLANController is deferred without the warning.
On the wire: a doorbell has no properties object and proactivelyReported on the capability; SimpleEventSource
is version 1.0, InventoryLevelSensor and WakeOnLANController version 3 (1.5.2: 1). A scene declared without
options is announced as before. Alex2MQTT has no topic yet for the WakeUp event.
24 examples of the six pages are saved as fixtures. 267 tests pass, 241 before.
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src/dispatcher.ts routes a directive to capability.on(name | "*"), device.onDirective() or
device.onReportState(), with the payload checked by the descriptor of the interface. The
DirectiveContext answers with respond/report/defer/error; respond() and report() start from
device.state(). A handler or 1.x listener that throws or rejects is answered with INTERNAL_ERROR
(an AlexaError with itself) and reported through "error", never as an unhandled rejection.
Undeclared interface, unknown directive, AdjustMode on an unordered mode and a missing handler
get INVALID_DIRECTIVE, a bad payload INVALID_VALUE; a device with an "Event" or "ReportState"
listener keeps the answer to itself. Every answer passes the dispatcher: the first one per
correlationToken is published, a second is refused. No answer within answerWithinMs (6500,
0 = off, unref'd timer) sends INTERNAL_ERROR and emits "unanswered". A messageId that arrived
in the last 60 s is dropped. New: "unknownEndpoint", options answerUnknownEndpoints, publisher,
timers, and bridge.receive() to run a bridge without a broker. 168 tests pass (18 new).
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src/transport.ts has the Publisher interface, MqttPublisher (the client the bridge has at the time) and
MemoryPublisher (tests without a broker); src/topics.ts names the four topics the library publishes to.
Device, AlexaStatusMessage, AlexaErrorResponse and sendSceneResponse shared three copies of the
publish-and-report code: they now call one send() that resolves the topic or "" and never rejects.
registerDevice() and addDevice() work before connect(); a send() without a connection resolves "" and the
"error" event says to call connect(). unregisterDevice() and clearDevices() take the publisher from the device.
Device.setMqttClient() is gone, the first constructor argument of Device is ignored, and the message classes
take a Publisher where they took the client. Tests: 108 -> 113.
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src/messages builds Response, StateReport, DeferredResponse, ErrorResponse, ChangeReport and the scene, doorbell
and simple events from plain values; messageId and times are parameters, so a test compares whole objects.
StateBuilder collects properties checked by the descriptors, AlexaError and AlexaErrors carry the payload fields
of an error type. AlexaStatusMessage and AlexaErrorResponse move to src/compat and are written on the builders.
On the wire, against 1.5.2: a DeferredResponse has no context key, a ChangeReport has no correlationToken, the
namespace of an ErrorResponse follows its type, and a ChangeReport without a changed property is not published:
send() resolves "" and the bridge reports an error that names the endpoint.
143 tests pass (108 before).
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A capability is a descriptor plus what the endpoint declares (device/Capability.ts), and its discovery object is
generated from the two. The new API is bridge.addDevice({ endpointId, name, categories, ... }) and
device.add(PowerController, options): both throw a DeclarationError that names the endpoint, the interface and
the instance (device/validate.ts), and leave the bridge and the device as they were. AlexaInterface is the same
Capability with the 1.x methods on it; it, ActionMapping and the enums moved to src/compat/, Device to src/device/.
What a 1.x caller can observe:
- every endpoint ends with { type: "AlexaInterface", interface: "Alexa", version: "3" } (alexa-interface.html);
new Alex2MQTT(..., { alexaInterface: false }) leaves it out
- the fields of a capability object come in the order of Amazon's examples; their content is unchanged
- addCapability() with a name that is not an interface throws (1.5.2 announced it with the version "UNKNOWN")
- ActionMapping takes the payload as an object; a JSON string is parsed (1.5.2 sent the string), any other throws
- what Alexa would reject in a 1.x declaration is not refused: device.check() lists it and the bridge logs each
line once, as "warning: ..." through the log hook, when it answers a discovery
- a device whose JSON cannot be built is left out of the answer and reported as an error event
- PowerController and EndpointHealth are the descriptors and keep ON/OFF and OK/UNREACHABLE; PowerState is new
Tests: six zoo devices declared the 1.x way give the JSON that Alexa accepted from 1.5.2 on 2026-09-28, plus the
Alexa capability. npm test: 85 pass (was 57) in 10-12 s, also on Node 18.20.8 and 20.20.2.
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