fix(ble): arm gen4 wake alarm with the rev-1 9-byte form the firmware executes - #265
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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.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAlarm handling now uses the verified 9-byte REV-1 payload for WHOOP 4. WHOOP 5 retains the 21-byte rich payload. Documentation and logging now distinguish payload formats by generation. ChangesAlarm payload execution
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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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| /// Generation-correct SET_ALARM_TIME body — 9 bytes on gen4, 21 on gen5. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// WHOOP 4: the REV-1 form ([rev1]) — the only form the gen4 firmware | ||
| /// actually executes (on-device proof 2026-08-19; the rich slot-0 form this | ||
| /// used to build was confirmed-but-never-fired, the silent-alarm root | ||
| /// cause). [index]/[haptics]/[crescendo] do not exist in the rev-1 layout | ||
| /// and are ignored on gen4. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// WHOOP 4: slot index 0 (HW-verified). WHOOP 5: slot **index 1**. Index 0 is | ||
| /// rejected with console `arm info is invalid, error 0xb`. On gen5 the [index] | ||
| /// argument is ignored so callers cannot accidentally arm slot 0. | ||
| /// WHOOP 5: rich 21-byte body at slot **index 1** (index 0 is rejected with | ||
| /// console `arm info is invalid, error 0xb`; the [index] argument is ignored | ||
| /// so callers cannot accidentally arm slot 0). Kept exactly as #194 shipped | ||
| /// it — verified by gen5 users; the gen4 findings do not transfer. | ||
| 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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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
# Map the payload factory before inspecting call sites.
ast-grep outline lib/ble/ble_state.dart --items all --type class,function --match 'AlarmPayloads|setPayloadForBand'
# Inspect every alarm-payload construction and outbound SET_ALARM_TIME use.
rg -n -C 8 --glob '*.dart' \
'Cmd\.setAlarmTime|setPayloadForBand\(|AlarmPayloads\.(rev1|rich|simple)\(|alarmRev1Payload\(' \
. || true
# Inspect test vectors and generation-specific assertions.
rg -n -C 8 --glob '*_test.dart' \
'alarmRev1Payload|setPayloadForBand|SET_ALARM_TIME|setAlarm|rev1|gen5Slot' \
. || trueRepository: OpenStrap/edge
Length of output: 27673
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- AlarmPayloads and setAlarm definitions ---'
sed -n '1080,1205p' lib/ble/ble_state.dart
sed -n '4380,4505p' lib/ble/ble_engine.dart
printf '%s\n' '--- All SET_ALARM_TIME call sites and alarm API calls ---'
rg -n -C 5 --glob '*.dart' \
'Cmd\.setAlarmTime|setAlarm\(|setAlarmSimple\(|setPayloadForBand\(|AlarmPayloads\.(rev1|rich|simple)\(' .
printf '%s\n' '--- Relevant wiring tests ---'
sed -n '250,355p' test/gen5_wiring_test.dart
sed -n '1,115p' test/alarm_test.dart
printf '%s\n' '--- Static call-path verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re
files = [p for p in Path('.').rglob('*.dart') if '.dart_tool' not in p.parts]
text = {p: p.read_text(errors='replace') for p in files}
direct = []
for p, s in text.items():
for m in re.finditer(r'(?<![\w.])Cmd\.setAlarmTime\b', s):
line = s.count('\n', 0, m.start()) + 1
direct.append((str(p), line, s[m.start():m.start()+100].splitlines()[0]))
factory_calls = []
for p, s in text.items():
for m in re.finditer(r'\bsetPayloadForBand\s*\(', s):
line = s.count('\n', 0, m.start()) + 1
factory_calls.append((str(p), line))
print('direct Cmd.setAlarmTime occurrences:', direct)
print('setPayloadForBand occurrences:', factory_calls)
engine = text.get(Path('lib/ble/ble_engine.dart'), '')
for name in ('setAlarm', 'setAlarmSimple'):
m = re.search(r'Future<void>\s+' + name + r'\b', engine)
if m:
body = engine[m.start():engine.find('\n }', m.start()) + 4]
print(name, 'uses setPayloadForBand =', 'setPayloadForBand(' in body,
'; uses simple =', 'AlarmPayloads.simple(' in body,
'; direct Cmd.setAlarmTime =', 'Cmd.setAlarmTime' in body)
PYRepository: OpenStrap/edge
Length of output: 36337
Add a complete gen5 SET_ALARM_TIME wire-vector test. The current test does not assert the epoch and subsecond bytes or the complete field order.
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In `@lib/ble/ble_state.dart` around lines 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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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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