`remembered` was a HashSet inside DeviceRegistry, so it lasted exactly as
long as the process. Every launch started from nothing: find the trainer,
press Connect, find the strap, press Connect, and only then ride. FR-1.5
has been a Should since the beginning and was never actually true.
It is a file now — devices.json in the app data directory, written when a
link actually comes up rather than when Connect is pressed. A Connect the
hardware then refuses is not a pairing, and writing one down would mean a
trainer the rider gave up on getting chased on every launch afterwards.
Forgetting is recorded too, in its own list: absent means never seen,
forgotten means the rider looked at this device and said no, and
auto-connect has to keep honouring that on the next launch as well. The
file is advisory — a corrupt one costs auto-connect, never a ride.
Auto-connect is driven by the scan rather than fired once at startup. The
hardware is asleep at startup — a trainer wakes when the cranks turn, a
strap when it is put on (A-4) — so a remembered device is reconnected the
moment it advertises, through the same path the rider's own click takes,
scan suspension included. Bounded by AUTO_ATTEMPTS on an AUTO_RETRY
cooldown and cleared when the link comes up or the rider connects by
hand: an app that never stops trying can never honestly say it has
stopped (FR-1.11). A device disconnected by hand is left alone for the
rest of the session, since a disconnect that undoes itself two ticks
later is not a disconnect.
Pods now prefer the pod we know. Every Click advertises the same name and
the same type byte, so before this a rider whose partner was warming up
in the next room got whichever pod woke first. With nothing of that kind
remembered anything still goes, or there could never be a first pairing.
And the pair is one pod, not two. Confirmed on this hardware 2026-08-21:
pairing the − pod alone delivers all ten buttons, its twin's included —
which §2.3.1 had established for the frames but not for the pairing. So
take_plus_pod holds the + pod back while a known − pod may merely be
asleep, and connect_controller with no pod named means the − pod rather
than both. The wait is bounded by PLUS_GRACE, because a flat − pod should
cost the rider a D-pad and not a controller, and Buttons is untouched: it
is what makes the handover between the two configurations invisible.
Not yet tested against real hardware — nothing was advertising here. The
store, the retry budget and the pod-preference rules have unit tests, and
a seeded devices.json was confirmed to load and seed the − pod at launch,
but the connect path itself waits for a ride.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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