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Implements the three changes proposed in #32.

What

  • cmdSetAlarmRev1 — the 9-byte SET_ALARM_TIME body the official app
    sends and the only form observed to actually execute on a real WHOOP 4.0:
    [0x01][epoch u32 LE][subsec u16 LE][haptic-mode u16 LE], haptic-mode
    defaulting to 0 (the stock ~24 s wake buzz). Exported from the package
    library, together with the bare payload as alarmRev1Payload so app
    layers that run their own sequencer/framing (edge does) can source the
    layout from here instead of duplicating it — the edge PR consumes exactly
    that symbol.
  • Doc corrections in commands.dart: the section narrative and
    cmdSetAlarm's doc no longer recommend the rich 0x04 body as "the form
    that actually fires" — on gen4 it is stored, echoed by GET_ALARM_TIME and
    confirmed with event 56 exactly like a live arm, but never executed. The
    docs now also spell out the two traps that hid this: a readback match only
    proves a body was stored, and event 56 fires for bodies that never will.
    cmdSetAlarmSimple's failure is re-explained (it is rev-1 minus the
    haptic-mode u16, not "missing waveform").
  • Tests: the rev-1 layout, the official app's btsnoop wire vector
    (epoch 1781912880 → 01 30 D5 35 6A 00 00 00 00), sub-second encoding,
    and the haptic-mode u16 guard. Existing rich-form byte pins are untouched;
    two test titles/comments that asserted the rich form fires are corrected.
  • gen5 is deliberately unchanged: the rich 21-byte body (+ crescendo) stays
    its only known arm form, still flagged hardware-unverified for waking.

How it was verified

Full evidence in #32. Short version, all on a real 4.0: months of sync logs
with 8+ rich-form arms show zero STRAP_DRIVEN_ALARM_EXECUTED (57); an A/B
over BLE on the same band showed rev-1 firing autonomously at the armed
second (events 60 + 57 + auto-disable 59), and a real wake alarm reproduced
it the next morning (HAPTICS_TERMINATED 100 stamped at target +24 s).
dart analyze clean; dart test 285 passing (4 skips = the usual
whoop_hist.jsonl replays). No decoder changes, so the parity oracle is
untouched.

The corresponding app-side change (edge arming gen4 with rev-1, fixing
OpenStrap/edge#119) is a separate PR on edge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for revision-1 alarm commands with configurable haptic modes.
    • Exposed alarm command builders through the public API.
    • Added validation for alarm slots, dates, and haptic mode values.
    • Clarified supported alarm formats and behavior across device generations.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for revision-1 payload layout, byte encoding, captured values, and argument limits.

…ing form

On a real WHOOP 4.0 the 20-byte 0x04 rich body is stored, echoed by
GET_ALARM_TIME and confirmed with STRAP_DRIVEN_ALARM_SET (56) exactly
like a live arm, but the scheduler never executes it: months of sync
logs with 8+ armed alarms show zero STRAP_DRIVEN_ALARM_EXECUTED (57)
and no haptics at any target. The official app arms with a rev-1
9-byte body — [0x01][epoch u32 LE][subsec u16][haptic-mode u16=0] —
and an A/B on the same band proved it: armed rev-1, the band fired
autonomously at the armed second (events 60 + 57 + auto-disable 59,
~24 s buzz, HAPTICS_TERMINATED 100 at +24 s). The trailing haptic-mode
u16 is the whole difference from the known-silent 7-byte short form.

Add cmdSetAlarmRev1 with the official-app wire capture pinned in the
tests, and correct the docs that recommended cmdSetAlarm as the firing
form: on gen4 a GET_ALARM readback match or an event 56 only proves a
body was stored, never that it will fire. gen5 keeps the rich 21-byte
body as its only known arm form, still unverified for actually waking.

Closes OpenStrap#32.
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The PR adds public REV-1 alarm APIs, documents short, REV-1, and rich alarm behavior by generation, and adds tests for payload encoding, slot handling, captured bytes, and argument validation.

Changes

Gen4 REV-1 alarm support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Alarm formats and REV-1 builder
lib/src/commands.dart
The command API documents three alarm wire formats. The new cmdSetAlarmRev1 and alarmRev1Payload APIs encode the 9-byte REV-1 payload, validate hapticMode as u16, and document generation-specific execution and slot behavior.
Public API wiring and command validation
lib/openstrap_protocol.dart, test/gen5_command_surface_test.dart
The new APIs are exported publicly. Tests cover gen4 slot defaults and bounds, exact REV-1 payload bytes, sub-second timestamp encoding, captured wire bytes, and haptic-mode bounds.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 56b2f

The new alarm builder can currently be used with gen5 and emit a gen4-only payload, which may cause incorrect alarm behavior, and out-of-range timestamps can serialize to a different alarm time. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant cmdSetAlarmRev1
  participant alarmRev1Payload
  participant WHOOP4
  Caller->>cmdSetAlarmRev1: provide sequence, time, haptic mode, and profile
  cmdSetAlarmRev1->>alarmRev1Payload: encode time and u16 haptic mode
  alarmRev1Payload-->>cmdSetAlarmRev1: return 9-byte payload
  cmdSetAlarmRev1->>WHOOP4: send framed REV-1 alarm command
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Possibly related issues

Possibly related PRs

  • OpenStrap/protocol#27 — Both PRs modify alarm command handling, generation-specific layouts, slot validation, and payload construction.

Suggested reviewers: abdulsaheel, localhoop

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In `@lib/src/commands.dart`:
- Around line 391-403: Validate when.millisecondsSinceEpoch in the shared alarm
timestamp conversion path before calling _alarmEpochSec and _alarmSubsec,
rejecting values before the Unix epoch or beyond the maximum representable
unsigned 32-bit seconds range. Ensure sub-second values are derived only from
valid timestamps, and preserve the existing serialized byte layout for valid
alarm times.
- Around line 375-379: Update cmdSetAlarmRev1 to reject BandProfile.gen5 before
invoking buildCommand, while preserving existing behavior for supported
profiles; add a test confirming that passing profile: BandProfile.gen5 throws.

In `@test/gen5_command_surface_test.dart`:
- Around line 230-236: Update the rev-1 alarm test around cmdSetAlarmRev1 to
assert the complete captured frame byte vector directly, covering buildCommand
framing, sequence, opcode, padding, payload, and CRC; retain the existing _body
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Comment thread lib/src/commands.dart
Comment on lines +375 to +379
Uint8List cmdSetAlarmRev1(int seq, DateTime when,
{int hapticMode = 0, BandProfile profile = BandProfile.gen4}) =>
buildCommand(
seq, Cmd.setAlarmTime, alarmRev1Payload(when, hapticMode: hapticMode),
profile);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject the REV-1 body for gen5.

cmdSetAlarmRev1 accepts BandProfile.gen5 and builds a gen5 frame with this body. The documentation states that this body is untested on gen5. This also conflicts with the stated requirement that gen5 remains unchanged.

Reject a gen5 profile before calling buildCommand. Add a test that cmdSetAlarmRev1(..., profile: BandProfile.gen5) throws.

Proposed fix
 Uint8List cmdSetAlarmRev1(int seq, DateTime when,
-        {int hapticMode = 0, BandProfile profile = BandProfile.gen4}) =>
-    buildCommand(
-        seq, Cmd.setAlarmTime, alarmRev1Payload(when, hapticMode: hapticMode),
-        profile);
+    {int hapticMode = 0, BandProfile profile = BandProfile.gen4}) {
+  if (profile.isGen5) {
+    throw ArgumentError.value(
+        profile, 'profile', 'REV-1 alarm payload is supported only on gen4');
+  }
+  return buildCommand(
+      seq, Cmd.setAlarmTime, alarmRev1Payload(when, hapticMode: hapticMode),
+      profile);
+}
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Uint8List cmdSetAlarmRev1(int seq, DateTime when,
{int hapticMode = 0, BandProfile profile = BandProfile.gen4}) =>
buildCommand(
seq, Cmd.setAlarmTime, alarmRev1Payload(when, hapticMode: hapticMode),
profile);
Uint8List cmdSetAlarmRev1(int seq, DateTime when,
{int hapticMode = 0, BandProfile profile = BandProfile.gen4}) {
if (profile.isGen5) {
throw ArgumentError.value(
profile, 'profile', 'REV-1 alarm payload is supported only on gen4');
}
return buildCommand(
seq, Cmd.setAlarmTime, alarmRev1Payload(when, hapticMode: hapticMode),
profile);
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In `@lib/src/commands.dart` around lines 375 - 379, Update cmdSetAlarmRev1 to
reject BandProfile.gen5 before invoking buildCommand, while preserving existing
behavior for supported profiles; add a test confirming that passing profile:
BandProfile.gen5 throws.

Comment thread lib/src/commands.dart
Comment on lines +391 to +403
final sec = _alarmEpochSec(when);
final subsec = _alarmSubsec(when);
return <int>[
0x01,
sec & 0xff,
(sec >> 8) & 0xff,
(sec >> 16) & 0xff,
(sec >> 24) & 0xff,
subsec & 0xff,
(subsec >> 8) & 0xff,
hapticMode & 0xff,
(hapticMode >> 8) & 0xff,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the timestamp before truncation.

The serializer keeps only the low 32 bits of sec. A date before January 1, 1970 or after February 7, 2106 serializes as a different alarm time. A timestamp from one millisecond before the epoch also produces a nonzero sub-second value because the quotient and remainder use different signed-value behavior.

Validate when.millisecondsSinceEpoch before deriving sec and subsec. Put the guard in the shared alarm timestamp conversion path so all alarm builders use the same u32 contract.

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In `@lib/src/commands.dart` around lines 391 - 403, Validate
when.millisecondsSinceEpoch in the shared alarm timestamp conversion path before
calling _alarmEpochSec and _alarmSubsec, rejecting values before the Unix epoch
or beyond the maximum representable unsigned 32-bit seconds range. Ensure
sub-second values are derived only from valid timestamps, and preserve the
existing serialized byte layout for valid alarm times.

Comment on lines +230 to +236
test('rev-1 pins the official app\'s wire capture (issue #32)', () {
// btsnoop of the official app arming a real WHOOP 4.0: epoch 1781912880
// (0x6A35D530), subsec 0, haptic-mode 0 — the form the band executes.
final capture = DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(1781912880 * 1000);
expect(_body(cmdSetAlarmRev1(1, capture)),
[0x01, 0x30, 0xD5, 0x35, 0x6A, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00]);
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Compare the complete captured frame.

_body removes the frame header, sequence, opcode, padding, and CRC. This test therefore pins only the nine-byte payload. A regression in buildCommand, the opcode, or the gen4 framing can still pass.

Compare cmdSetAlarmRev1 directly with the complete btsnoop byte vector. Keep the body assertion if it improves layout diagnostics.

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In `@test/gen5_command_surface_test.dart` around lines 230 - 236, Update the rev-1
alarm test around cmdSetAlarmRev1 to assert the complete captured frame byte
vector directly, covering buildCommand framing, sequence, opcode, padding,
payload, and CRC; retain the existing _body assertion as an additional
payload-layout check if useful.

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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. pad4 zero-pads inner to a multiple of 4 and the unpadded length is never transmitted. short form: inner [0x23, seq, 0x42] + 7 = 10, padded to 12 with two 0x00. rev-1: 3 + 9 = 12, last two bytes hapticMode = 0. i built both:

simple: aa 10 00 57 23 01 42 01 30 d5 35 6a 00 00 00 00 14 55 c3 a3
rev1  : aa 10 00 57 23 01 42 01 30 d5 35 6a 00 00 00 00 14 55 c3 a3

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 — cmdSetAlarmSimple saying "acked, never buzzes" next to cmdSetAlarmRev1 "the form that fires", for identical bytes.

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 strapDrivenAlarmSet with a body carrying the armed epoch and the haptic block 47,152,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7,30 — that's the rich 20-byte form. then 57 strapDrivenAlarmExecuted at the byte-exact armed second, and haptics terminated at target +30s, matching durationSeconds = 30 in that same block. you attribute ~24s to the rev-1 stock buzz, so the 30s is independent evidence the firmware played the rich waveform.

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 getVersionInfo off your band? i'll do mine.

one thing i want fixed regardless of who's right about the form. this makes 57/59/60 real for the first time, and _handleAlarmEvent(int id, int ts) takes a timestamp and never uses it — it calls onEvent(id, DateTime.now()). those come through the history-replay path. so a replayed 57 wipes _savedAlarm, device.alarmEpoch and the pref, and pops a phantom "your alarm went off". it already half-happens: my notif_fired has an alarm_fired key stamped 91 minutes after the alarm actually fired, i.e. at sync time. the timestamp gate is listed as a follow-up — it has to ship with this, not after.

if the rich form turns out not to fire for you, the minimal change is pointing setPayloadForBand's gen4 branch at the existing simple(when) plus the doc fixes. that drops the new builder entirely and makes the edge side independently mergeable — it currently can't compile against the pinned protocol and the pr doesn't include the repin, so as written it can't be both mergeable and green.

smaller:

  • hapticMode names a meaning nothing supports — the only established fact is that zeros go there. call it reserved if a builder survives.
  • coderabbit's right that cmdSetAlarmRev1 shouldn't accept gen5 at all, and that the timestamp should be range-checked before truncation. odd that the new function validates hapticMode but not when.
  • app_state.dart:3672 still says the engine computes real sub-seconds "for the rich 20-byte firing form" — that one's missed by the doc sweep.

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 → 01 30 d5 35 6a 00 00 00 00" says everything useful. pr and issue bodies are editable, worth doing before any of this merges.

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 idx that was reading an epoch byte as a slot id and inventing -1 otherwise. gen5 is genuinely untouched in both directions, which i checked.

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Full response on OpenStrap/edge#265: you're right that the two forms are byte-identical on the wire (verified with this package's own builders), and a clean re-run of the A/B on my band today still shows the rich form latching-but-never-executing while the 12-byte-inner form fired — my firmware is 41.17.4 (details + raw vectors over there). Firmware version looks like the real discriminator, as you suspected. Holding off on reshaping either branch until we've compared versions — analysis and next steps over on the edge PR.

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