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With GCP, device state data is always stored as a base64-encoded representation of the raw data bytes. This differs with ClearBlade IoT Core whenever the state data contains non-printable characters (i.e., the data is not a string). In that case, the text data representation holds a HEX string that represents representing the bytes in the raw data bytes. Extracting the raw data from the HEX string requires using the Python bytes.fromhex() function (or equivalent in other languages). When using the cloudiot_devices_states API to retrieve binary states, the base64Encode query param should be excluded or set to false to receive a response containing the above HEX string.