fix(ble): arm gen4 wake alarm with the rev-1 9-byte form the firmware executes - #265
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In `@lib/ble/ble_state.dart`:
- Around line 1160-1188: Add a gen5 wire-vector test for setPayloadForBand that
asserts the complete 21-byte payload, including epoch, subsecond, slot, haptics,
and crescendo bytes in protocol field order. Use fixed input values and verify
the exact resulting byte list rather than only length or selected fields.
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thanks for chasing this, and the doc corrections in here are right. but i can't take the behaviour change — the mechanism it rests on isn't there, and my own band contradicts the premise. the two forms are byte-identical on the wire. same frame. the radio can't tell them apart, so "those two bytes are the whole difference" can't be why one fires and the other doesn't. both repos would ship a self-contradiction after this — which cuts the other way too: if your a/b result is real, it also shows the short form fires. the "acks but never buzzes" line has been in both repos unsupported for a while and should just be deleted, not re-explained. and the rich form does fire on my 4.0. from my own export, 2026-08-11: event 56 so the honest claim is "rich doesn't fire on that band", not "gen4 never executes it". my guess at the real discriminator is firmware version — neither the pr nor #32 mentions it. can you post one thing i want fixed regardless of who's right about the form. this makes 57/59/60 real for the first time, and if the rich form turns out not to fire for you, the minimal change is pointing smaller:
provenance: there are comments and test names across both prs that say how the bytes were obtained, two of which also name the upstream project, and #32 publishes a band serial. can you strip those to just the vector — "epoch 1781912880 → what's right and i want kept: deleting "the rich form is THE form that actually fires" as an unqualified claim, "a GET_ALARM readback proves only that a body was STORED", "56 proves latch, not execution", and removing the fabricated (same comment on protocol#33 — they only make sense as a pair.) |
You're right about the frames — I rebuilt both forms with the package's own builders and with That made me re-test the part that IS a wire distinction, cleanly. Today, on my band: laptop-driven, no phone connected, band on wrist, RTC verified at 1 s drift, one arm per trial, latch verified by SET ack + GET_ALARM readback before disconnecting. Verdict signal = post-target readback armed flag (fired ⇒ the band auto-disables, event 59; not fired ⇒ the alarm stays stored and armed — both branches verified on this firmware), plus the buzz on my wrist.
The rich payloads carried the exact block your band latched and executed ( So both of our bands are telling the truth: yours executes the rich form, mine latches it and never executes it. Which lands on your hypothesis — firmware version. Mine ( Yours? Two more observables from the run, in case they help your analysis:
Given the frames are identical and the firmware split is real, I'd rather settle what the data means before touching either branch — your call on how you want the PRs reshaped from here; happy to follow your lead on that and on your other points. |
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… executes The rich 20-byte 0x04 form is stored, echoed and confirmed (event 56) by WHOOP 4.0 firmware but never executed: zero STRAP_DRIVEN_ALARM_EXECUTED (57) across 1.07M log lines and 8+ armed alarms on real hardware. The official WHOOP app arms with a rev-1 9-byte form — [0x01][epoch u32 LE][subsec u16][haptic-mode u16=0] — per a btsnoop wire capture (noop PR #535), and an on-device A/B on the affected band proved it: armed rev-1, the band fired autonomously at the armed second (events 60 + 57 + auto-disable 59, ~24 s buzz), while the rich form stayed silent. The trailing haptic-mode u16 is the whole difference from the known-silent 7-byte short form. gen5 keeps its rich 21-byte slot-1 body (OpenStrap#194) — the gen4 findings do not transfer. RTC drift (OpenStrap#122's theory) was ruled out on hardware: raw GET_CLOCK readbacks are wall-correct to the second; the drift shift is kept for genuinely offset RTCs. Full evidence trail in the PR description. The byte layout itself lives in openstrap_protocol (alarmRev1Payload, added alongside cmdSetAlarmRev1 for protocol OpenStrap#32); AlarmPayloads.rev1 is a delegation, so the wire format has exactly one home. Needs the protocol pin bumped to a SHA containing that export — left to the release-time bump. Fixes OpenStrap#119. Related: OpenStrap#186 (gen5), OpenStrap/protocol#32.
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@abdulsaheel Rebased and fixed conflicts, are we going to go this way at the end? |
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In `@lib/ble/ble_state.dart`:
- Around line 1103-1114: Update the documentation blocks in
lib/ble/ble_state.dart at 1103-1114, 1141-1144, 1165-1167, and 1186-1190 to
describe observed behavior by tested firmware version and band, removing
unsupported universal execution claims, the silent-alarm-root-cause wording, and
the two-byte mechanism explanation. In the rev1 and short-form discussion, state
only that they serialize identically when haptic-mode is 0, and identify the
firmware version for every reported observation.
- Around line 1196-1212: Update setPayloadForBand to add a debug assertion on
the gen4/rev1 path that validates index, haptics, and crescendo are unused,
while preserving the existing rev1 payload behavior and gen5 handling.
- Around line 1132-1139: Update rev1 to validate the epoch-second value derived
from when before passing it to alarmRev1Payload; reject values below 0 or above
0xFFFFFFFF so out-of-range drift-adjusted times fail loudly instead of being
truncated. Preserve the existing payload generation for valid values and ensure
toStrapFrame/setAlarm receives the failure rather than an arbitrary encoded
time.
- Around line 14-16: Update the openstrap_protocol dependency revision used by
ble_state.dart to one that exports the required alarmRev1Payload List<int>
symbol, preserving the existing import and usage; only remove the import if the
payload is no longer needed.
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| /// REV-1 9-byte SET_ALARM_TIME payload — the form the gen4 firmware EXECUTES | ||
| /// (see the class doc for the evidence): | ||
| /// `[0x01][u32 epoch-sec LE][u16 subsec LE][u16 haptic-mode LE]`. | ||
| /// The byte layout has exactly one home, `openstrap_protocol`'s | ||
| /// [alarmRev1Payload]; this is the app-side name for it. Haptic-mode stays | ||
| /// at its default 0 (the strap's stock wake buzz) — the only value | ||
| /// wire-captured from the official app, so we never send anything else. | ||
| static List<int> rev1(DateTime when) => alarmRev1Payload(when); |
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Validate the epoch range before the u32 truncation.
rev1 forwards when straight to alarmRev1Payload, which encodes the epoch as a u32 little-endian field. The caller reaches this through toStrapFrame(when, driftSec) in ble_engine.setAlarm. driftSec comes from the GET_CLOCK correlation, so a strap RTC that is far from wall time produces a large shift. If the shifted epoch is negative or exceeds 0xFFFFFFFF, the encoder truncates it and the strap arms a wrong time that still looks like a valid arm.
Reject the out-of-range value at this boundary so the arm fails loudly instead of arming an arbitrary second.
🛡️ Proposed range check
- static List<int> rev1(DateTime when) => alarmRev1Payload(when);
+ static List<int> rev1(DateTime when) {
+ final sec = when.millisecondsSinceEpoch ~/ 1000;
+ if (sec < 0 || sec > 0xFFFFFFFF) {
+ throw ArgumentError.value(
+ when,
+ 'when',
+ 'alarm epoch does not fit the rev-1 u32 field '
+ '(sec=$sec) — refusing to arm a truncated time',
+ );
+ }
+ return alarmRev1Payload(when);
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| /// REV-1 9-byte SET_ALARM_TIME payload — the form the gen4 firmware EXECUTES | |
| /// (see the class doc for the evidence): | |
| /// `[0x01][u32 epoch-sec LE][u16 subsec LE][u16 haptic-mode LE]`. | |
| /// The byte layout has exactly one home, `openstrap_protocol`'s | |
| /// [alarmRev1Payload]; this is the app-side name for it. Haptic-mode stays | |
| /// at its default 0 (the strap's stock wake buzz) — the only value | |
| /// wire-captured from the official app, so we never send anything else. | |
| static List<int> rev1(DateTime when) => alarmRev1Payload(when); | |
| /// REV-1 9-byte SET_ALARM_TIME payload — the form the gen4 firmware EXECUTES | |
| /// (see the class doc for the evidence): | |
| /// `[0x01][u32 epoch-sec LE][u16 subsec LE][u16 haptic-mode LE]`. | |
| /// The byte layout has exactly one home, `openstrap_protocol`'s | |
| /// [alarmRev1Payload]; this is the app-side name for it. Haptic-mode stays | |
| /// at its default 0 (the strap's stock wake buzz) — the only value | |
| /// wire-captured from the official app, so we never send anything else. | |
| static List<int> rev1(DateTime when) { | |
| final sec = when.millisecondsSinceEpoch ~/ 1000; | |
| if (sec < 0 || sec > 0xFFFFFFFF) { | |
| throw ArgumentError.value( | |
| when, | |
| 'when', | |
| 'alarm epoch does not fit the rev-1 u32 field ' | |
| '(sec=$sec) — refusing to arm a truncated time', | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| return alarmRev1Payload(when); | |
| } |
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In `@lib/ble/ble_state.dart` around lines 1132 - 1139, Update rev1 to validate the
epoch-second value derived from when before passing it to alarmRev1Payload;
reject values below 0 or above 0xFFFFFFFF so out-of-range drift-adjusted times
fail loudly instead of being truncated. Preserve the existing payload generation
for valid values and ensure toStrapFrame/setAlarm receives the failure rather
than an arbitrary encoded time.
| static List<int> setPayloadForBand( | ||
| DateTime when, { | ||
| required bool isGen5, | ||
| int index = 0, | ||
| List<int>? haptics, | ||
| int crescendo = 0, | ||
| }) => | ||
| <int>[ | ||
| ...rich(when, index: isGen5 ? gen5Slot : index, haptics: haptics), | ||
| // gen5's body carries one byte more than gen4's: a crescendo flag the | ||
| // strap validates as 0 or 1 and rejects otherwise, so a 20-byte body | ||
| // is refused there. Keep this in step with protocol's cmdSetAlarm, | ||
| // which is the reference layout — gen4 stays at the 20 bytes verified | ||
| // on hardware. | ||
| if (isGen5) crescendo & 0x01, | ||
| ]; | ||
| isGen5 | ||
| ? <int>[ | ||
| ...rich(when, index: gen5Slot, haptics: haptics), | ||
| // gen5's body carries one byte more than gen4's rich form: a | ||
| // crescendo flag the strap validates as 0 or 1 and rejects | ||
| // otherwise, so a 20-byte body is refused there. Keep this in | ||
| // step with protocol's cmdSetAlarm, the reference layout. | ||
| crescendo & 0x01, | ||
| ] | ||
| : rev1(when); |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Signal that gen4 discards index, haptics, and crescendo instead of dropping them silently.
ble_engine.setAlarm forwards a caller-supplied haptics list into this factory. On gen4 the value now has no effect, because rev1 carries no haptic pattern. A caller that passes a custom pattern receives a successful arm with the stock buzz and no indication that the pattern was discarded.
Add a debug assertion so the mismatch surfaces during development.
♻️ Proposed assertion
static List<int> setPayloadForBand(
DateTime when, {
required bool isGen5,
int index = 0,
List<int>? haptics,
int crescendo = 0,
- }) =>
- isGen5
+ }) {
+ assert(
+ isGen5 || (haptics == null && index == 0 && crescendo == 0),
+ 'rev-1 carries no index/haptics/crescendo; these arguments are '
+ 'ignored on gen4 — do not pass them for a WHOOP 4 band',
+ );
+ return isGen5
? <int>[
...rich(when, index: gen5Slot, haptics: haptics),
// gen5's body carries one byte more than gen4's rich form: a
// crescendo flag the strap validates as 0 or 1 and rejects
// otherwise, so a 20-byte body is refused there. Keep this in
// step with protocol's cmdSetAlarm, the reference layout.
crescendo & 0x01,
]
- : rev1(when);
+ : rev1(when);
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| static List<int> setPayloadForBand( | |
| DateTime when, { | |
| required bool isGen5, | |
| int index = 0, | |
| List<int>? haptics, | |
| int crescendo = 0, | |
| }) => | |
| <int>[ | |
| ...rich(when, index: isGen5 ? gen5Slot : index, haptics: haptics), | |
| // gen5's body carries one byte more than gen4's: a crescendo flag the | |
| // strap validates as 0 or 1 and rejects otherwise, so a 20-byte body | |
| // is refused there. Keep this in step with protocol's cmdSetAlarm, | |
| // which is the reference layout — gen4 stays at the 20 bytes verified | |
| // on hardware. | |
| if (isGen5) crescendo & 0x01, | |
| ]; | |
| isGen5 | |
| ? <int>[ | |
| ...rich(when, index: gen5Slot, haptics: haptics), | |
| // gen5's body carries one byte more than gen4's rich form: a | |
| // crescendo flag the strap validates as 0 or 1 and rejects | |
| // otherwise, so a 20-byte body is refused there. Keep this in | |
| // step with protocol's cmdSetAlarm, the reference layout. | |
| crescendo & 0x01, | |
| ] | |
| : rev1(when); | |
| static List<int> setPayloadForBand( | |
| DateTime when, { | |
| required bool isGen5, | |
| int index = 0, | |
| List<int>? haptics, | |
| int crescendo = 0, | |
| }) { | |
| assert( | |
| isGen5 || (haptics == null && index == 0 && crescendo == 0), | |
| 'rev-1 carries no index/haptics/crescendo; these arguments are ' | |
| 'ignored on gen4 — do not pass them for a WHOOP 4 band', | |
| ); | |
| return isGen5 | |
| ? <int>[ | |
| ...rich(when, index: gen5Slot, haptics: haptics), | |
| // gen5's body carries one byte more than gen4's rich form: a | |
| // crescendo flag the strap validates as 0 or 1 and rejects | |
| // otherwise, so a 20-byte body is refused there. Keep this in | |
| // step with protocol's cmdSetAlarm, the reference layout. | |
| crescendo & 0x01, | |
| ] | |
| : rev1(when); | |
| } |
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In `@lib/ble/ble_state.dart` around lines 1196 - 1212, Update setPayloadForBand to
add a debug assertion on the gen4/rev1 path that validates index, haptics, and
crescendo are unused, while preserving the existing rev1 payload behavior and
gen5 handling.
…col at OpenStrap#33's head The docs told a mechanism the evidence no longer supports: the rich form executes on at least one other WHOOP 4 (PR OpenStrap#265 review, 2026-08-11 export), and short/rev-1 pad4 to byte-identical frames at haptic-mode 0 — so every behavioural claim now carries its firmware (41.17.4) and provenance, and the "silent-alarm root cause" / "two bytes are the whole difference" wording is gone. pubspec pins protocol OpenStrap#33's rebased head 4ce8f02: the old pin b7990e1 does not export alarmRev1Payload, so a fresh checkout failed analysis (CodeRabbit). kProtocolPin moves with it; kAlgoVersion holds at 76 — the hop is command builders only, no decoder line moves. gen5's composed 21-byte body gets one exact-bytes vector, crescendo=1 included.
Cross-band evidence (issue OpenStrap#32 + OpenStrap/edge#265) splits by firmware: on fw 41.17.4 the rich body latches without executing and rev-1 fires; at least one other 4.0 executes rich. So "never executes", "the short form fails", and "(months of sync logs, 8+ arms)" overclaimed — every claim now names its firmware, and the short form is stated for what it is: the rev-1 frame byte-for-byte once padded, at haptic-mode 0. The event-id doc loses "NEVER EMITTED (58/59)" and "only 56 and 57 arrive": 58 follows RUN_ALARM and 59/60 arrived with every observed firing.
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Smart alarm never fires on WHOOP 4.0 — root cause and fix
Issue: #119 (gen4, closed by #122 without on-device verification — the drift
fix it shipped never activates and did not address the cause). Related: #186
(same symptom reported on WHOOP 5/MG; the gen5 arm path is NOT changed here).
Symptom
A scheduled smart alarm is accepted and confirmed by the band — the app shows
it armed — but the band never vibrates at the wake time. The test buzz
(RUN_ALARM) and Find-my-band haptics always work.
What was actually happening
Edge armed gen4 with the 20-byte
0x04"rich" SET_ALARM_TIME form. Thegen4 firmware stores, echoes and confirms that form exactly like a real
arm (exact epoch in the
0x42response and in the ALARM_SET event-56 payload)— but its scheduler never executes it. Across 1.07M lines of sync logs
covering 8+ armed alarms on a real WHOOP 4.0 there is not a single
STRAP_DRIVEN_ALARM_EXECUTED (event 57) and no haptics at any armed target.
Everything else was ruled out on hardware: the band's RTC is wall-correct to
the second (raw GET_CLOCK readbacks match wall; SET_CLOCK latches exactly),
the armed epoch is byte-exact, the band was on-wrist at every target, MTU/
writes/link were healthy.
Two things had masked this for months:
same live callback, and the timestamp-blind confirmation machine treated
them as live — a replayed test-buzz EXECUTED(58) landing at the wake minute
looked exactly like "the alarm fired silently". (Known defect, not fixed in
this change.)
correlated=falseonevery arm pointed suspicion at clock drift (fix(ble): arm wake alarm in the strap's RTC frame so it actually fires #122's theory). Upstream fixed
the parse in
openstrap_protocol95d8ab8; this repo picked it up with the0.9.27 repin — and the alarm still never fired, because drift was never the
cause.
The fix
Arm gen4 with the REV-1 9-byte form instead:
This is what the official WHOOP app sends — btsnoop wire capture of the
official app arming a real 4.0 (noop PR #535; the capture's frame is pinned
byte-for-byte in
test/alarm_test.dart). The trailing haptic-mode u16 is theentire difference from the old known-silent 7-byte form.
Changes:
lib/ble/ble_state.dart— newAlarmPayloads.rev1(), delegating toopenstrap_protocol'salarmRev1Payload(added there alongsidecmdSetAlarmRev1for gen4 SET_ALARM_TIME (0x42): the rich form is stored and confirmed but never executed — the official app's rev-1 9-byte form is the one that fires protocol#32, so the wire format hasexactly one home);
setPayloadForBandnow returns it for gen4. The gen5branch (rich 21-byte slot-1 body from fix(gen5): WHOOP 5 wake alarm (slot index 1 + Maverick test buzz) #194) is unchanged.
rich()/simple()stay as documented reference-only forms.lib/ble/ble_engine.dart—setAlarmdocs + log line (rev1 9B); thedrift-frame shift is kept (correct for a genuinely offset RTC).
test/alarm_test.dart/test/gen5_wiring_test.dart— rev-1 layout +official-app wire-capture vectors; gen4 arm-body expectations updated.
Depends on OpenStrap/protocol#33: the pinned
openstrap_protocolSHAmust contain
alarmRev1Payload(pin bump left to the release-time bump,so CI here stays red until then).
Verification
A/B experiment over BLE against the affected band (2026-08-19), armed via a
reference client, band otherwise untouched:
autonomously:
HAPTICS_FIRED (60),STRAP_DRIVEN_ALARM_EXECUTED (57)and the one-shot auto-disable
(59), all stamped at the target epoch; ~24 sbuzz, felt on wrist. First event-57 this band has ever emitted.
App-level: this build (0.9.27+59 + fix) installed on the affected phone;
flutter analyzeclean; 24/24 alarm tests pass.Also learned on hardware, relevant to reviewers: alarm lifecycle events
(56/57/59/60) are delivered via the band's history stream on the next sync,
not necessarily live — so an arm may show "waiting for the strap to confirm"
until the next sync, and the fired events arrive with the sync after the wake.
Follow-ups (not in this change)
OpenStrap/protocol(its docs stillcall the rich form "the one that actually fires").
AlarmConfirmationso drain-replayed 56/58/59 events cannotfake confirm/fired/cleared transitions (this is what closed Smart alarm never fires (strap never buzzes at wake time) #119 wrongly and
once wiped an armed alarm a minute before its wake time).
unverified; a gen5 equivalent of this A/B experiment would settle it.
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