Clean specific room using API?

[nayelyz (SmartThings Developer Support)]

Hi!

@barth11

So if these are the steps which the robot is doing, there is a definition in one of them where to clean (room id) and which mode (vacuuming or moping).

In the documentation we can see they don’t have any attribute for the room information:

• robotCleanerMovement
• robotCleanerCleaningMode

Not all the things a device does are exposed in the API, have you checked if this device appears as OCF type in the Advanced Users app?
If so, it means this works on the application level and not the API level, so, this means the commands from the app work because it communicates directly to the device but there might be no command that does the same action exposed in the API.
In this post, I shared some details the engineering team provided about OCF devices that might help understand more why they behave differently:

To attempt to shed light on why some capabilities might show up in the ST app but not on the API side, the team shared these details:

• The phone client (ST app) uses OCF’s COAP protocol, which allows the physical device to define its resources (such as the temperature values).
• So, these values can be written there by the device and as a result, they can be displayed by the app.
• The APIs do not work via OCF, but, the profile is the manifest of what values are available to be accessed from there.

I suggest you reach out to the manufacturer and ask if they’re exposing the information or a command to be used through the API to specify the room you want to clean. Only the manufacturer can modify the integration and provide documentation about it since they’re the ones that developed it and know which information of their intellectual property would like to share publicly.