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#238 was closed as landed-by-another-route, and that call was right: gen5 framing belongs in protocol, not edge. That path already shipped in protocol#27 + edge#97. This PR is only the leftover the close note asked for.

Main already matches the 128-bit vendor service fd4b0001-cce1-4033-93ce-002d5875f58a. What was never settled is whether a real WHOOP 5.0 / MG puts that UUID in the primary advertisement or only the scan response. A 128-bit UUID often does not fit the 31-byte AD; iOS then hashes it in the overflow area and AccessorySetupKit reports No Accessory Found (#237).

This adds the two things that still fit an advertisement, as separate ASK items (criteria inside one descriptor AND-combine):

  • 16-bit SIG member UUID 0xFD4B — not the Bluetooth-base expansion 0000FD4B-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB, which no band advertises
  • advertised-name substring WHOOP (MG shows up as WHOOP MGB…)

The Dart scan filter gains the same 16-bit UUID. If iOS rejects the widened ASK list, the picker retries once with the WHOOP 4.0 item so 4.0 pairing cannot go down with the experiment.

No gen5_framing.dart, no gen5_records.dart, no codec. Transport stays in package:openstrap_protocol.

Test plan

  • flutter test test/gen5_pairing_filter_test.dart (pins Dart filter + Info.plist + ASK lockstep)
  • Pair a WHOOP 4.0 on iOS 18+ — ASK sheet still lists it
  • Pair a WHOOP 5.0 / MG on iOS 18+ — sheet lists it instead of an empty picker
  • Android scan finds an MG whose advertisement carries 16-bit 0xFD4B or the name WHOOP MGB…
  • If you have an MG: an nRF Connect capture of primary AD vs scan response still closes the last hardware question

Fixes #237

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for discovering and pairing WHOOP Gen 4 and Gen 5/MG devices.
    • Improved Bluetooth detection using device names, service identifiers, and scan-response data.
    • Added more resilient accessory picker behavior with a retry for eligible discovery failures.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Reduced missed-device scenarios during Bluetooth scanning and accessory setup.
    • Improved filtering to avoid matching unrelated Bluetooth devices.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for Gen 5/MG discovery, pairing filters, and false-positive prevention.

…in edge

The 128-bit fd4b0001 service is already on main via protocol#27 + edge#97.
ASK and the scan filter also need the 16-bit 0xFD4B and the WHOOP name,
because a 128-bit UUID often lives only in the scan response.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

WHOOP discovery now supports Gen 4 and Gen 5 identifiers, the FD4B member UUID, and name matching. Dart scanning and iOS AccessorySetupKit use shared discovery criteria. iOS picker presentation retries with the Gen 4 descriptor after non-cancellation failures.

Changes

WHOOP discovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared BLE matching and scan filters
lib/ble/ble_engine.dart
Adds WHOOP Gen 5 and FD4B discovery constants, shared filters, advertisement matching, and scan integration.
iOS discovery descriptors
ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift, ios/Runner/Info.plist
Adds Gen 5 service, FD4B, and WHOOP name criteria to AccessorySetupKit descriptors and Bluetooth declarations.
Picker fallback and validation
ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift, test/gen5_pairing_filter_test.dart
Retries expanded picker discovery with the Gen 4 descriptor after eligible failures. Tests validate matching, filters, descriptors, and wiring.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 880c7

The iOS pairing fallback can currently lose the pending result or misclassify a user dismissal, so a successful retry may be reported as cancelled or an unnecessary second picker may appear. This concrete merge-readiness issue should be fixed before merging.

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Suggested labels: Review effort 3/5

Suggested reviewers: abdulsaheel

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR covers ASK descriptors, Info.plist declarations, scan filters, and Gen 4 compatibility, but omits required post-connect support, diagnostics, and experimental markings from #237. Update post-connect service discovery for Gen 5 UUIDs, add the requested opt-in diagnostics probe, and mark Gen 5 paths as experimental.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain focused on WHOOP Gen 5/MG discovery, pairing compatibility, AccessorySetupKit descriptors, BLE filters, and related tests.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: closing the WHOOP Gen 5/MG BLE pairing gap without adding wire-format code.

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Inline comments:
In `@ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift`:
- Around line 197-206: Update the retry flow around present and pickerDidDismiss
in AccessorySetup so a retry-in-flight flag suppresses the initial dismissal
cancellation while the Gen 4 picker is being presented; clear the flag when the
retry completes, and ensure the retry success branch still resolves the original
pending pickerResult callback.

Apply the same fix in `@ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift` around lines 185 - 186.

In `@lib/ble/ble_engine.dart`:
- Around line 1343-1355: Handle the Future returned by
FlutterBluePlus.stopScan() in the onScanResults listener by attaching an error
handler, ensuring failures remain within the scan path and do not become
unhandled asynchronous errors.

In `@test/gen5_pairing_filter_test.dart`:
- Around line 140-156: Extend the Gen 4 pairing tests to cover the fallback in
AccessorySetup, asserting that the relevant present call passes allowGen4Retry:
true and that the retry uses items[0], the Gen 4 descriptor. Use the existing
source-text assertion style and include coverage for the retry’s lifecycle-safe
behavior.
- Around line 158-162: Remove the tautological _posix path assertion from the
test and delete the now-unused _posix helper; retain the meaningful engine
filter-helper expectations in the test.
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Comment on lines 197 to 206
if let error = error {
if let cb = self.pickerResult {
self.pickerResult = nil
cb(.failure(PickerError(message: error.localizedDescription)))
guard let cb = self.pickerResult else { return }
let message = error.localizedDescription
let looksCancelled = message.lowercased().contains("cancel")
if allowGen4Retry, !looksCancelled, items.count > 1 {
NSLog("[ASK] picker rejected the %d-item descriptor list (%@) — "
+ "retrying with the WHOOP 4.0 item only.", items.count, message)
self.present([items[0]], allowGen4Retry: false)
return
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the Gen 4 retry safe across picker dismissal and cancellation.

When the first picker dismisses while present is retrying, .pickerDidDismiss can resolve pickerResult before the retry succeeds, causing a provisioned accessory to be reported to Dart as cancelled. Suppress dismissal resolution while the retry is in flight and complete the pending result when the retry finishes.

Also determine user cancellation from the typed ASError (error.code == .userCancelled) rather than localizedDescription; otherwise a localized message that does not contain cancel can incorrectly start a second picker.

📍 Affects 1 file
  • ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift#L197-L206 (this comment)
  • ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift#L185-L186
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In `@ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift` around lines 197 - 206, Update the retry
flow around present and pickerDidDismiss in AccessorySetup so a retry-in-flight
flag suppresses the initial dismissal cancellation while the Gen 4 picker is
being presented; clear the flag when the retry completes, and ensure the retry
success branch still resolves the original pending pickerResult callback.

Apply the same fix in `@ios/Runner/AccessorySetup.swift` around lines 185 - 186.

Comment thread lib/ble/ble_engine.dart
Comment on lines 1343 to 1355
final sub = FlutterBluePlus.onScanResults.listen((results) {
for (final r in results) {
final name = r.device.platformName.toLowerCase();
final advNames = r.advertisementData.serviceUuids.map(
(g) => g.str.toLowerCase(),
);
if (found == null &&
(name.contains('whoop') ||
advNames.any((s) =>
s.startsWith('61080001') || s.startsWith('fd4b0001')))) {
advertisementLooksLikeWhoop(
platformName: r.device.platformName,
serviceUuids:
r.advertisementData.serviceUuids.map((g) => g.str),
)) {
found = r.device;
FlutterBluePlus.stopScan();
}
}
});

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle the error from the unawaited stopScan() call inside the listener.

FlutterBluePlus.stopScan() returns a Future. The listener does not await it and does not attach an error handler. If the platform call fails, the rejection surfaces as an unhandled asynchronous error outside the try block below. Attach a handler so a failed stop cannot escape the scan path.

🛡️ Proposed fix
           found = r.device;
-          FlutterBluePlus.stopScan();
+          unawaited(
+            FlutterBluePlus.stopScan().catchError(
+              (Object e) => _log('stopScan after match failed: $e'),
+            ),
+          );
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final sub = FlutterBluePlus.onScanResults.listen((results) {
for (final r in results) {
final name = r.device.platformName.toLowerCase();
final advNames = r.advertisementData.serviceUuids.map(
(g) => g.str.toLowerCase(),
);
if (found == null &&
(name.contains('whoop') ||
advNames.any((s) =>
s.startsWith('61080001') || s.startsWith('fd4b0001')))) {
advertisementLooksLikeWhoop(
platformName: r.device.platformName,
serviceUuids:
r.advertisementData.serviceUuids.map((g) => g.str),
)) {
found = r.device;
FlutterBluePlus.stopScan();
}
}
});
final sub = FlutterBluePlus.onScanResults.listen((results) {
for (final r in results) {
if (found == null &&
advertisementLooksLikeWhoop(
platformName: r.device.platformName,
serviceUuids:
r.advertisementData.serviceUuids.map((g) => g.str),
)) {
found = r.device;
unawaited(
FlutterBluePlus.stopScan().catchError(
(Object e) => _log('stopScan after match failed: $e'),
),
);
}
}
});
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In `@lib/ble/ble_engine.dart` around lines 1343 - 1355, Handle the Future returned
by FlutterBluePlus.stopScan() in the onScanResults listener by attaching an
error handler, ensuring failures remain within the scan path and do not become
unhandled asynchronous errors.

Comment on lines +140 to +156
test('ASK has a separate 16-bit FD4B descriptor, not AND-combined', () {
expect(swift, contains('whoopServiceUUIDGen5'));
expect(swift.toUpperCase(), contains('FD4B0001-CCE1-4033-93CE-002D5875F58A'));
// A 16-bit CBUUID("FD4B") is its own picker item. Criteria inside one
// ASDiscoveryDescriptor AND-combine, so folding this onto the 128-bit
// item would match nothing if the band advertised only one form.
expect(swift, contains('whoopMemberUUID16'));
expect(
swift,
contains('CBUUID(string: AccessorySetup.whoopMemberUUID16)'),
);
});

test('ASK has a name-substring item as the last net', () {
expect(swift, contains('bluetoothNameSubstring'));
expect(swift, contains('"WHOOP"'));
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the Gen 4 picker retry.

This group pins the descriptor list but not the new fallback behavior in AccessorySetup.swift. The retry path decides whether WHOOP 4.0 pairing still works after iOS rejects the widened list. Pin it with the same source-text approach used here, for example assert that present( receives allowGen4Retry: true and that the retry uses items[0], which is the Gen 4 item.

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In `@test/gen5_pairing_filter_test.dart` around lines 140 - 156, Extend the Gen 4
pairing tests to cover the fallback in AccessorySetup, asserting that the
relevant present call passes allowGen4Retry: true and that the retry uses
items[0], the Gen 4 descriptor. Use the existing source-text assertion style and
include coverage for the retry’s lifecycle-safe behavior.

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Comment on lines +158 to +162
test('engine scan uses the shared filter helper, not a second UUID list', () {
expect(engine, contains('whoopScanServiceUuids()'));
expect(engine, contains('advertisementLooksLikeWhoop('));
expect(_posix('lib/ble/ble_engine.dart'), 'lib/ble/ble_engine.dart');
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the tautological path assertion.

Line 161 compares a string literal with itself after _posix replaces the platform separator. The literal contains no platform separator on any platform, so the assertion can never fail. _posix has no other call site.

♻️ Proposed cleanup
       expect(engine, contains('whoopScanServiceUuids()'));
       expect(engine, contains('advertisementLooksLikeWhoop('));
-      expect(_posix('lib/ble/ble_engine.dart'), 'lib/ble/ble_engine.dart');
     });

Also remove the now-unused helper:

-String _posix(String path) => path.replaceAll(Platform.pathSeparator, '/');
-
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In `@test/gen5_pairing_filter_test.dart` around lines 158 - 162, Remove the
tautological _posix path assertion from the test and delete the now-unused
_posix helper; retain the meaningful engine filter-helper expectations in the
test.

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thanks for digging into this one, but i can't take it as is — the 16-bit uuid isn't ours.

0xfd4b is assigned to samsung in the bluetooth sig member list. there's no whoop entry in there at all. our fd4b0001-cce1-... is a vendor-chosen prefix exactly like gen4's 6108, same as band.dart says — only the 32-bit prefix changes between generations. nobody would read 0x6108 as a sig assignment either.

two things fall out of that:

it breaks gen4 pairing near a samsung device. Guid('fd4b') expands to 0000fd4b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb, so a galaxy watch passes both the os withServices filter and advertisementLooksLikeWhoop. scan() takes the first match and stops, pairing feeds it into pairWith(), discovery hard-fails at "no whoop service". on android and ios <18 that's the actual pairing path. and that expansion is the same constant #237 already identified as "one wrong constant, zero results".

the ask item can only ever match a samsung accessory. CBUUID(string: "FD4B") is a different 128-bit value from fd4b0001-cce1-..., so the row labelled "whoop 5.0 / mg" lists galaxy buds and nothing else.

the name-only item can't work either — apple's ASDiscoveryDescriptor requires a service uuid or company id alongside bluetoothNameSubstring, so that list gets rejected. and the fallback then presents [items[0]] which is gen4 only, while main offers gen4 + the gen5 128-bit item. so a whoop 5 that does advertise fd4b0001... in its primary ad — the case main handles today — stops pairing under this.

also worth pushing back on the premise: apple scopes the overflow area to CBPeripheralManager, i.e. an ios device acting as peripheral. a third-party band's oversized uuid goes in the scan response, which corebluetooth merges into advertisementData normally.

smaller stuff:

  • cancel is detected with message.lowercased().contains("cancel") — false in any non-english locale. ASErrorCodeUserCancelled = 700 exists, use that.
  • coderabbit's point about the retry racing pickerDidDismiss is right — a successful pair can get reported to dart as cancelled. worth fixing whatever else happens here.
  • the tautological path assertion in the test (comparing a literal to itself after _posix) can go.

what i'd take right now: pull kWhoopMemberUuid16 and both items using it, drop the name-only item, keep the advertisementLooksLikeWhoop extraction. that's a small clean refactor that changes no behaviour and i'll merge it.

if the scan-response case turns out to be real, the route is bluetoothCompanyIdentifier — it reads manufacturer data, which never gets hashed, and it satisfies apple's requirement on its own so it can legally carry the name substring too. but the company id has to come off a real advertisement, not a guess.

one more: there's a comment naming a capture tool. can you take that out and just say it's not confirmed on hardware? repo's public.

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WHOOP MG / 5.0: band not discovered by AccessorySetupKit pairing sheet (No Accessory Found) even when flashing blue and visible in system Bluetooth

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