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No SPACE_OCCUPANCY events from Kontakt.io Portal Beam

calendar_today September 3, 2026 person ch.jauslin domain cisco-psirt

We are using a Kontakt.io Portal Beam as an occupancy sensor in Cisco Spaces, assigned to a room with occupancy type PEOPLE_COUNT. Our requirement is to receive a Firehose API event whenever room occupancy changes (0 → >0 and >0 → 0). We successfully receive IOT_TELEMETRY events (temperature, battery, accelerometer, illuminance, etc.) from the Portal Beam, but no SPACE_OCCUPANCY and SPACE_OCCUPANCY_CHANGE were not available in our Firehose event type selection.

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