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Create Device

POST /api/v1/edge-devices

Provider creates a single-organization camera binding and a 15-minute enrollment secret. Replacement atomically revokes the previous identity. The returned secret is shown once; configuration trust is provisioned with it.

Authentication options declared in the contract include user cookie session or bearer service token.

The shared authentication policy requires system:manage. Resource access also depends on the caller’s role, organization, camera grants, and the operation’s validation.

User-session writes require recent authentication.

Authentication and permissions explains tokens, cookies, CSRF, and workspace context.

Name Location Required Type Description and constraints
X-EyesOnIt-Session-Id header No string (uuid) The sessionId the caller expects. Required when switching workspaces and for cookie requests after workspace rotation. A mismatched value returns 409 with X-EyesOnIt-Workspace-Changed: 1. Bootstrap with getCurrentPrincipal; never replay a mutation automatically after changing context. Bearer clients do not use this header.
X-CSRF-Token header No string Required for unsafe requests authenticated by CookieSession; ignored for bearer clients. minimum length 32. maximum length 256

Required.

application/json — CreateEdgeDeviceBody.

Field Type Required Description and constraints
platform string No values "native", "axis". default "native"
organizationId string (uuid) or null No
name string Yes minimum length 1. maximum length 128
cameraIds array of string (uuid) No maximum items 100
settings EdgeSettings No
replacesDeviceId string (uuid) or null No

Set the connection variables described in Get started. Replace each additional EOI_… variable with the parameter value for this request. Prepare the body file using the request schema above. This template sends the request when run.

Terminal window
curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error \
--request POST \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${EOI_SERVICE_TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @request.json \
"${EOI_API_BASE_URL}/edge-devices"

The table records responses declared by the OpenAPI contract. See Errors and status codes for the runtime error envelope and shared failures.

Status Description Media type Body
201 Successful Response application/json EdgeEnrollmentResponse
422 Validation Error application/json HTTPValidationError

Operation identifier createEdgeDevice. Browse Devices.

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