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title: "network.presence@1 · OpenVibe.Services"
canonical: "https://openvibe.services/docs/contracts/network.presence"
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# network.presence@1 · OpenVibe.Services

HTML: [network.presence@1 · OpenVibe.Services](https://openvibe.services/docs/contracts/network.presence)

# NetworkPresence `network.presence@1`

Generated at 2026-11-13 06:25:48 UTC from [`openvibe-contracts v0.419.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Contracts/tree/v0.419.0) and [`openvibe-sdk v0.161.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.SDK/tree/v0.161.0).

- Version: 1.0.0
- Owner: network
- Visibility: first-party
- Status: active
- Compatibility: backward
- Schema: [`https://openvibe.network/contracts/network/presence.v1.json`](/docs/contracts/network.presence.json)

network.presence@1 (plan 2026-10-22 track X item 9): one person's online status as another person may see it. OpenVibe.Network owns presence: POST /api/v1/me/presence/heartbeat keeps it fresh, PUT /api/v1/me/presence sets the chosen state, status line and emoji, and GET /api/v1/presence?subjects=… answers for the people the asker follows or has a DM with. The state is derived: online while the newest heartbeat is under 2 minutes old, away after 10 minutes without input (the client's heartbeat says idle), offline after 3 minutes without a heartbeat. Invisible and show\_status off are seen as offline, and an invisible person is left out of the answer entirely; last seen is never returned. live is true while the person is streaming on OpenVibe.Live, and only for someone who would otherwise be visible. (The event is network.presence.changed@1.)

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Description | Constraints |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `subject` | string | yes | The person's canonical subject. | - `pattern ^usr_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$` |
| `state` | enum | yes | The public state. A reader never receives invisible (the person is offline instead, or absent from a list); the stored chosen state can be auto, dnd or invisible. | - `one of "online", "away", "dnd", "invisible", "offline"` |
| `status_text` | string \| null |  | The person's status line in their own words, or null. Never shown while they are invisible or have show\_status off. | - `maxLength 80` |
| `emoji` | string \| null |  | One emoji that sits beside the status line, or null. | - `maxLength 16` |
| `live` | boolean |  | The person is streaming on OpenVibe.Live now. Live outranks their chosen state; it is false while they are invisible or have show\_status off. | - `default false` |
| `updated_at` | string | yes | When the person's presence row last changed. | - `format date-time` |

## Examples

From the contract's own test fixtures: valid ones validate, rejected ones must fail.

 Valid: away

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "away",
  "status_text": null,
  "emoji": null,
  "live": true,
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

Valid: dnd

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "dnd",
  "status_text": "Heads down",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

Valid: offline

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "offline",
  "live": false,
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

Valid: online

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "online",
  "status_text": "Building presence",
  "emoji": "🟢",
  "live": false,
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

Rejected: bad-subject

~~~~
{
  "subject": "ann",
  "state": "online",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

Rejected: extra-field

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "online",
  "last_seen": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

Rejected: long-status

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "online",
  "status_text": "This status line is deliberately longer than eighty characters so the schema refuses it without any doubt at all.",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

Rejected: missing-updated

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "online"
}
~~~~

Rejected: unknown-state

~~~~
{
  "subject": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPQ",
  "state": "busy",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z"
}
~~~~

## Validate

~~~~
const contracts = require('openvibe-contracts');
contracts.validate('network.presence@1', value);   // { valid, errors: [{ path, message }] }
~~~~