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The present application provides a method and apparatus for monitoring a device state. The method includes: detecting one or more current values of one or more state parameters; for each state parameter of the one or more state parameters, determining whether the current value of the state parameter changes relative to a recorded value of the state parameter; and reporting the current value of the state parameter to a client through a connection between the present device and the client in response to determining that the current value of the state parameter changes relative to the recorded value of the state parameter.