Both pods, same bench, minutes apart, no writes:
− pod buttons stop at ~51 s, every session; flag 0 -> 1; 2 key offers
+ pod 133 s, 78 paddle edges, flag never flipped, no key offer at all
So the `−` pod is not the controller. It relays more when it works — all
ten buttons, its twin's included — but "when it works" is under a minute
without a Zwift blessing in the last day, and the `+` pod alone is a
complete shifter: its paddle shifts up, `Y` shifts down, both already
mapped. Shifting is what a ride cannot do without.
`take_plus_pod` becomes `take_minus_pod` — the same rule with the pods
exchanged — and the housekeeping, the connect guard and the
no-pod-named default follow it. Opening both is still what stops the `−`
pod reporting its own paddle, so it is still one link, just the other one.
The UI stops telling riders to press the pod that dies: the panel asks
for the `+` pod, the tile prefers it, and the `−` pod's row says what it
actually offers — all ten buttons, for about fifty seconds.
This settles A-2 from the other end too. The keep-alive that "removes the
daily unlock, but only for the right controller" removes nothing. The
right controller never needed it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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