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Overview

Discovery temporarily changes local radio configuration while a scan is active. If the scan is interrupted by disconnect, lifecycle churn, device replacement, or terminal cleanup racing another scan, the session can be left incomplete while the radio still needs its captured home configuration restored.

This adds durable recoverable discovery state, one device-owned radio restore operation, application-scope interrupted-session recovery, and a serialized terminal coordinator. Home restoration remains tied to the selected device and is serialized with device switching, so stale recovery cannot reconfigure a replacement radio while a reconnect of the same selected device can continue unfinished restoration.

Scan preparation separately captures the active transport generation after admission waits and revalidates it around configuration capture. This rejects a connection replacement that occurs during preparation without incorrectly tying a legitimate reconnecting home restore to the transport session that originally started the scan.

Terminal persistence, home restoration, and joined cleanup share explicit ownership so interrupted work can finish or remain recoverable without overwriting a newer terminal outcome.

Key Changes

Recoverable persistence

  • Define shared in-progress, interrupted, pending-restoration, restored, failed, stopped, and unrestorable discovery session states.
  • Keep Room queries and the switching discovery DAO aligned on which rows remain eligible for recovery.
  • Return affected-row counts from conditional status updates so an unavailable database or stale row cannot be mistaken for successful persistence.
  • Use targeted aggregate and status updates so delayed terminal work cannot overwrite a newer restoration result.
  • Serialize the shared in-memory discovery DAO around its IDs, maps, mutations, and direct snapshot reads, then publish immutable flow snapshots from the guarded state.
  • Keep test behavior aligned with the actual Room snapshot contract rather than adding ordering that the production snapshot query does not guarantee.

Ownership-aware home restoration

  • Add one RadioController operation that restores the captured primary channel before the captured LoRa configuration.
  • Serialize the selected-device ownership check and restore operation with device switching so a delayed restore cannot cross into a replacement radio.
  • Send the channel and configuration through one local edit-settings transaction while preserving channel-before-config ordering.
  • Return without writing when the captured device is no longer the selected radio.
  • Keep partial/staged failure retryable for the same device and require ownership to be checked again before a retry.
  • Keep the shared discovery fake focused on selected-device ownership and write ordering while production tests pin the complete begin -> channel -> config -> commit transaction boundary.

Interrupted-session recovery

  • Keep captured home restoration owned by application scope after foreground callers stop waiting.
  • Wake recovery when connection state or selected-device ownership changes.
  • Do not consume the bounded radio-write retry budget while simply waiting for an ordinary disconnect/reconnect cycle.
  • Bound actual connected write failures and ownership rechecks while persisting an explicit terminal state when restoration can no longer safely continue.
  • Keep the pending-restore admission snapshot thread-safe without adding a new module dependency.
  • Derive retry timing tests from the same production backoff multiplier and maximum delay.
  • Propagate successful late background restoration without publishing duplicate recovery notifications.
  • Keep an incomplete or non-durable failed same-device restore as an admission barrier so the scan configuration cannot be captured as a new home configuration; changing selected-device ownership safely supersedes that barrier.
  • Release the in-memory same-device barrier after UNRESTORABLE is durably persisted, while retaining the recoverable barrier if that terminal status cannot be written.
  • Keep recovery lock ordering explicit so later persistence changes cannot introduce an inversion.

Scan and terminal coordination

  • Perform the potentially suspending pending-restore wait before entering the scan-engine mutex.
  • Use a non-suspending restore-state recheck inside the mutex so a recovery race cannot admit a new scan without blocking stop, reset, packet collection, or state transitions.
  • Capture the selected-device and transport-generation baseline after admission waits, then revalidate it around the bounded initial configuration snapshot.
  • Keep the initial configuration snapshot outside the engine mutex so scan control remains responsive while repository state loads.
  • Serialize scan startup, stop, reset, failure, and natural completion around one terminal owner.
  • Persist the current dwell exactly once, including valid partial dwell data after an interruption while avoiding an empty result when target configuration failed before the dwell began.
  • Allow joined terminal callers to perform required follow-up work without taking terminal ownership or duplicating persistence.
  • Reuse the already-scheduled restore task when a foreground caller waits for cleanup rather than scheduling a second restore.
  • Prevent stale joined outcomes or late restore completion from publishing into a newer scan.
  • Keep optional NeighborInfo/topology seeding best-effort so request failure cannot strand terminal cleanup or home restoration.

Testing

Added or extended coverage for:

  • discovery-status parity, recoverable-row filtering, conditional affected-row updates, unavailable databases, and synchronized Room-compatible in-memory DAO behavior;
  • one-transaction restoration with explicit begin/channel/config/commit ordering, missing or stale selected-device ownership, partial writes, write failures, and device-selection serialization;
  • disconnect/reconnect, device switching, bounded ownership and write retries, late completion, foreground timeout, cancellation, legacy/interrupted sessions, persistence failures, unrestorable plans, same-device admission after durable exhaustion, and barrier retention when terminal persistence fails;
  • scan startup while prior restoration is pending or failed, transport-generation changes during preparation, bounded initial configuration capture, and same-device admission protection;
  • terminal start/stop/reset/completion races, exact-once and partial dwell persistence, joined cleanup, restart admission, stale terminal outcomes, restore scheduling, and final-state publication;
  • typed session statuses and production-derived retry/backoff values so tests follow the actual discovery contract rather than duplicated literals.

Merge Order

Merge #6716 before this PR. Home restoration intentionally uses #6716's admission-aware local settings transaction: begin and commit are tied to the active transport lifecycle, and an undispatched commit caused by queue clearing remains retryable instead of allowing the discovery row to be finalized as restored.

#6718 is independent of this ordering. The combined stack has been validated together; the ordering requirement is specifically the runtime restoration contract between #6716 and #6717.

Validation

Validated in the combined integration build during the overnight multi-device soak, with particular attention to device ownership changes that can invalidate discovery cleanup and restoration.

  • Repeatedly changed the selected radio across several physical devices and across BLE, USB/serial, and TCP while exercising the application over an extended session.
  • Verified device replacement retired the previous selected-device session before the replacement radio completed connection bootstrap and configuration loading.
  • Confirmed subsequent use of replacement radios without observing stale home configuration from the previously selected device being applied to them.
  • Exercised background/foreground transitions and activity recreation during the soak, then resumed operation and continued changing radios without a stuck recovery or scan-admission state.
  • Repeated selected-device changes did not leave discovery cleanup associated with the wrong radio or prevent continued use of the newly selected device.
  • Exercised restoration and ownership transitions concurrently with ordinary packet traffic and remote-admin activity rather than only as isolated discovery operations.
  • The rebuilt PR branch is green in CI after the final standalone compile/lint cleanup and review fixes.

This complements the focused regression coverage for selected-device ownership, transport-generation changes during scan preparation, interrupted-session recovery, restore ordering, terminal cleanup races, and exact-once dwell persistence.

Scope

  • This PR must follow fix(lifecycle): harden packet admission and transport ownership #6716 so restoration completion is backed by its admission-aware settings commit boundary rather than enqueue-only behavior.
  • No database schema or user-data migration is required; this extends the discovery session status contract and recovery behavior over existing persisted rows.
  • No radio protocol or firmware behavior changes are introduced.
  • Home restoration is restricted to the captured selected device and serialized against device replacement; it is intentionally able to continue across reconnects of that same device.
  • Transport-generation ownership applies to scan preparation rather than artificially preventing reconnect-based home restoration.
  • Discovery targets, dwell policy, scoring, and preset contents are unchanged except where lifecycle ownership is required to finish or recover cleanup safely.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automatic restoration of radio configuration and primary channels after discovery scans.
    • Added recovery for interrupted discovery sessions when the associated device reconnects.
    • Added clearer discovery session lifecycle statuses, including pending restoration and recovery outcomes.
    • Discovery results now retain session totals and summary metrics.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented conflicting scans during configuration restoration.
    • Improved protection against stale device connections and concurrent completion updates.
    • Added safer handling when the database or radio is temporarily unavailable.

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The PR adds typed discovery-session lifecycle statuses, DAO support for status and aggregate updates, serialized radio configuration restoration, interrupted-session recovery, and coordinated scan terminal cleanup with extensive concurrency and recovery tests.

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Discovery restoration lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session status and aggregate persistence
core/database/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/..., core/database/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/...
Adds typed session statuses, recoverable-session queries, aggregate persistence, and unavailable-database handling.
Radio restoration contract and synchronization
core/repository/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/repository/RadioController.kt, core/service/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/RadioControllerImpl.kt, core/testing/...
Adds session-generation tracking and serialized, device-owned local configuration restoration.
Home restoration and interrupted-session recovery
feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryHomeRestorer.kt, feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryInterruptedSessionRecovery.kt, feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryHomeRestorerTest.kt
Adds cancellable restoration scheduling, bounded retries, persisted-session recovery, terminal status updates, and device-change handling.
Scan lifecycle and terminal coordination
feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngine.kt, feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTerminalCoordinator.kt, feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngineTest.kt
Coordinates scan startup, cancellation, terminal cleanup, aggregate persistence, restoration waits, race handling, and exact-once result persistence.
Shared test state and radio behavior
feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/..., feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/SharedInMemoryDiscoveryDao.kt, feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTestRadioController.kt
Replaces local DAO fakes with shared in-memory state and adds device-aware radio test support.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5b13a

This change improves interrupted discovery recovery, but the current implementation still has a test-compilation issue and race-sensitive cleanup paths that can stall scan control or leave the radio in scan configuration after cancellation. The PR is not merge-ready until these concrete issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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Suggested reviewers: jamesarich

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Tests Prove The Path, Not The End State ⚠️ Warning The changed map test inserts into SharedInMemoryDiscoveryDao and asserts its own flows without using DiscoveryMapViewModel; it would pass if the production path were reverted. Exercise DiscoveryMapViewModel through the DAO and assert its state; in the dwell-abort test, assert the persisted node identity instead of only discoveredNodes.size.
Regression Coverage For Changed Behavior ⚠️ Warning Changed scan startup, terminal aggregation, and restore ownership paths lack regression tests for snapshot timeout, aggregate values, and same-address transport-generation invalidation. Add tests with a never-emitting config flow, terminal assertions for all aggregate fields, same-address generation replacement with no restore writes, and recovery status-write failure remaining recoverable.
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core/service/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/RadioControllerRestoreTest.kt (1)

142-167: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for the documented partial-write failure on the real implementation.

RadioController.restoreLocalConfiguration documents that a successful channel write followed by a throwing config write propagates the exception after the partial write. FakeRadioControllerRestoreTest.restorePropagatesConfigFailureAfterChannelWrite covers that branch for the fake only.

This file has no equivalent for RadioControllerImpl. That branch matters because callers must keep the restore eligible for retry after a partial write.

This test already captures admin sends, so the seam exists: stub commandSender.sendAdmin to throw on the second invocation, then assert the exception propagates and exactly one set_channel send occurred.

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In
`@core/service/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/RadioControllerRestoreTest.kt`
around lines 142 - 167, Add a test beside
restoreLocalConfigurationWritesChannelThenConfigForCurrentDevice that stubs
commandSender.sendAdmin to succeed for the channel write and throw on the second
config write. Assert restoreLocalConfiguration propagates the exception and
exactly one admin message was sent, containing primaryChannel.set_channel,
preserving retry eligibility after the partial write.
core/testing/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/testing/FakeRadioController.kt (1)

172-183: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The fake cannot simulate a failing channel write, so one documented branch stays untestable.

RadioController.restoreLocalConfiguration documents that primaryChannel is written before config. The reverse failure — the channel write fails and the config write never runs — has no seam here. Line 179 calls setLocalChannel, and setLocalChannel at lines 167-170 ignores failChannelWriteAfter. Only setRemoteChannel at line 198 honors that flag.

Honor the existing flag in setLocalChannel so tests can assert that a failed channel write leaves localConfigs empty.

♻️ Proposed change to make the channel-write failure reachable
 override suspend fun setLocalChannel(channel: Channel) {
+        failChannelWriteAfter?.let { if (localChannels.size >= it) error("Fake channel write failure") }
         localChannels.add(channel)
         settingsOperations.add(SettingsOperation.SetChannel(channel))
     }
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In
`@core/testing/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/testing/FakeRadioController.kt`
around lines 172 - 183, Update setLocalChannel to honor the existing
failChannelWriteAfter flag, matching setRemoteChannel, so it fails before
changing local channel state when configured. Preserve
restoreLocalConfiguration’s channel-before-config ordering and ensure a
channel-write failure prevents setLocalConfig from running.
feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTerminalCoordinator.kt (1)

148-173: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move cancelScan inside the try so the restore is always scheduled.

Line 148 runs cancelScan before the try block that starts at Line 157. runBestEffort uses safeCatching, so a CancellationException from cancelScan propagates. cancelScan suspends on the engine mutex, so it is a cancellation point. If it is cancelled, runTerminalCleanup exits before the finally at Lines 162-173, and homeRestorer.schedule never runs. The radio then stays on the scan configuration until the recovery watcher observes the persisted session.

The withContext(NonCancellable) block at Line 166 shows the intent to guarantee restore scheduling. Including the cancellation step in the guarded region completes that guarantee.

♻️ Proposed change
-        val cancellationSucceeded = runBestEffort("scan cancellation failed during terminal cleanup", cancelScan)
         val persistedStatus =
             if (request.restorePlan == null) {
                 finalStatusForPendingRestore(request.pendingStatus, default = request.pendingStatus)
             } else {
                 request.pendingStatus
             }
         var restoreTask: Deferred<Boolean>? = null
         val persistenceSucceeded =
             try {
+                val cancellationSucceeded =
+                    runBestEffort("scan cancellation failed during terminal cleanup", cancelScan)
                 val beforeFinalizeSucceeded =
                     runBestEffort("dwell persistence failed during terminal cleanup", beforeFinalize)
                 val terminalPersistSucceeded = persistTerminalSession(request.sessionId, persistedStatus)
                 cancellationSucceeded && beforeFinalizeSucceeded && terminalPersistSucceeded
             } finally {
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In
`@feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTerminalCoordinator.kt`
around lines 148 - 173, Move the cancelScan invocation into the existing try
block in runTerminalCleanup, ensuring cancellationSucceeded is assigned there
while preserving the current aggregate persistence result and finally block.
Keep restore scheduling in the NonCancellable finally path so
homeRestorer.schedule always runs even if cancelScan is cancelled.
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Inline comments:
In
`@core/service/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/RadioControllerImpl.kt`:
- Around line 224-225: Wrap the channel and config writes in
RadioControllerImpl’s editLocalSettings transaction, preserving the existing
channel-before-config ordering and nullable primaryChannel behavior. Update the
restoreLocalConfiguration KDoc if its documented partial-write failure behavior
no longer matches the transactional implementation.

In
`@core/testing/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/testing/FakeRadioControllerRestoreTest.kt`:
- Around line 109-117: Replace the runCatching/assertTrue failure assertion in
FakeRadioControllerRestoreTest with assertFailsWith<IllegalStateException>
around controller.restoreLocalConfiguration, preserving the existing arguments
and coroutine test context. Update imports as needed and remove the now-unused
failure variable/assertion.

In
`@feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngine.kt`:
- Around line 215-224: Move the suspending restore wait out of the engine mutex:
add a non-suspending DiscoveryHomeRestorer.hasIncompleteRestoreFor query that
checks pendingRestore.result.isCompleted and the last result, returning true
unless the restore completed successfully. Await any required restore completion
before mutex.withLock, then re-check hasIncompleteRestoreFor inside the lock
before proceeding, replacing the current hasBlockingRestoreFor call while
preserving the blocking-restore failure state.

In
`@feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTestRadioControllerTest.kt`:
- Line 52: Update the requestNeighborInfo failure test in
DiscoveryTestRadioControllerTest to invoke the suspend function within runTest
using try/catch instead of wrapping it with non-suspending assertFailsWith;
capture the thrown exception and assert that it is an IllegalStateException.

In
`@feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/SharedInMemoryDiscoveryDao.kt`:
- Around line 31-39: Guard all shared state in SharedInMemoryDiscoveryDao with a
single Mutex, including nextSessionId, nextPresetResultId, nextNodeId, the three
mutable maps, and direct snapshot reads. Ensure every DAO mutation and
map-to-flow snapshot is performed under that mutex, then publish immutable flow
snapshots only after the guarded mutation completes.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@core/service/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/RadioControllerRestoreTest.kt`:
- Around line 142-167: Add a test beside
restoreLocalConfigurationWritesChannelThenConfigForCurrentDevice that stubs
commandSender.sendAdmin to succeed for the channel write and throw on the second
config write. Assert restoreLocalConfiguration propagates the exception and
exactly one admin message was sent, containing primaryChannel.set_channel,
preserving retry eligibility after the partial write.

In
`@core/testing/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/testing/FakeRadioController.kt`:
- Around line 172-183: Update setLocalChannel to honor the existing
failChannelWriteAfter flag, matching setRemoteChannel, so it fails before
changing local channel state when configured. Preserve
restoreLocalConfiguration’s channel-before-config ordering and ensure a
channel-write failure prevents setLocalConfig from running.

In
`@feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTerminalCoordinator.kt`:
- Around line 148-173: Move the cancelScan invocation into the existing try
block in runTerminalCleanup, ensuring cancellationSucceeded is assigned there
while preserving the current aggregate persistence result and finally block.
Keep restore scheduling in the NonCancellable finally path so
homeRestorer.schedule always runs even if cancelScan is cancelled.
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  • core/database/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/dao/DiscoveryDao.kt
  • core/database/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/dao/SwitchingDiscoveryDao.kt
  • core/database/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/entity/DiscoverySessionEntity.kt
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  • core/database/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/dao/CommonDiscoveryDaoTest.kt
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  • core/repository/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/repository/RadioController.kt
  • core/service/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/RadioControllerImpl.kt
  • core/service/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/RadioControllerRestoreTest.kt
  • core/testing/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/testing/FakeRadioController.kt
  • core/testing/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/testing/FakeRadioControllerRestoreTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryHomeRestorer.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryInterruptedSessionRecovery.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngine.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTerminalCoordinator.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryHistoryBehaviorTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryHomeRestorerTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryMapFilterTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryPacketCollectionTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngineTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTerminalCoordinatorTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTestRadioController.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryTestRadioControllerTest.kt
  • feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/SharedInMemoryDiscoveryDao.kt

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Deep review pass done (discovery engine, DAO/entity layer, restore operation, plus a combined-tree build with #6716 and #6718 that compiles and passes all overlapping-module tests). A lot here is verified solid: no Room migration needed (the entity diff is a pure constant refactor and both home columns already exist on main), recoverable-set parity between the SQL list and the in-memory DAO is pinned by test, lock ordering is consistent with no inversions found, the retry budget genuinely is not consumed on ordinary disconnects, wrong-radio writes are closed because the ownership check runs under the same deviceSwitchMutex that setDeviceAddress takes, and dwell persistence is exactly-once. Two findings that deserve a response, and a merge-order recommendation:

  1. Restore success is enqueue-only against current main. restoreLocalConfiguration returns true once the begin/channel/config/commit packets are queued; nothing awaits an ack, and stopPacketQueue clears queued packets on transport stop. So in exactly the window this PR targets (link drops right after a scan, firmware often reboots on LoRa config change), the four packets can be silently discarded after true was already returned, finalizeRecoveredSessionBestEffort writes a terminal RESTORED status, the row leaves the recoverable set, and the radio is permanently left on the scan config with no recovery path. Important nuance: once #6716 merges, editLocalSettings awaits a commit boundary with dispatch evidence, so an undispatched queue-clear becomes a retriable EditSettingsTransactionException and this mostly closes. That makes merge order load-bearing: #6716 should land first, and it is worth stating that dependency in this PR's description. If #6717 could ever land alone, the restore needs to await acknowledgement (or the boolean needs to be redocumented as "enqueued while owned" with the session kept recoverable until confirmation).

  2. An exhausted write budget permanently blocks same-device scans until process restart. When retryAfterWriteFailure runs out of attempts it marks the row UNRESTORABLE and completes the pending Deferred false, but the pendingRestore entry is never cleared: awaitBeforeScan then refuses every same-device scan, recovery cannot re-schedule (UNRESTORABLE is not in the recoverable set), and terminal cleanup cannot run because no scan can start. Transient post-scan BLE flapping burning 7 attempts is enough to trigger it, and the barrier is in-memory only, so an app restart silently lifts it while the radio state it protects is unchanged. This one stands regardless of #6716. The barrier needs an escape: clear the pending entry on terminal completion, or let an explicit user retry or reconnect supersede it.

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  • persistCurrentDwellResults now runs its Room writes while holding the engine mutex (the pre-PR version deliberately did not). A slow or wedged DB blocks packet collection, stopScan, and scan admission for the duration; this repo has history with silent Room pool wedges, so moving the write outside the mutex would be cheap insurance.
  • A fully successful scan gets downgraded to Failed when the post-scan restore exceeds the 90s foreground window. The restore itself triggers a radio reboot and the reconnect budget is 60s, so a slow reconnect can mislabel a good scan even though the background restore later succeeds.
  • The retry/UNRESTORABLE machinery is currently only exercisable through the test fakes, since the production write path cannot fail after the ownership check until #6716 lands. Real coverage of that path arrives with the #6716 semantics, one more reason for that merge order.
  • After 15 ownership-recheck rejections the row stays pending, but recovery only wakes on a connection-state or address change, so a sustained prefs/transport address divergence while Connected has no periodic retry.
  • dwellJob in DiscoveryScanEngine is declared and cancelled but never assigned.

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jeremiah-k marked this pull request as draft August 15, 2026 18:50
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@jamesarich Thanks — this is very helpful.

I agree on the merge-order dependency. The stronger settings commit/admission boundary belongs to #6716, so I don't want to duplicate that transport/packet behavior into the discovery change. I'll make the dependency explicit and keep #6717 behind #6716 in merge order.

The exhausted-write barrier is a valid discovery-side bug. UNRESTORABLE should be a durable terminal recovery result, not leave a completed failed pendingRestore acting as a process-lifetime same-device admission lock. I'll fix that ownership transition and add coverage showing that exhausting the restore budget does not leave an in-memory barrier that only an app restart can clear.

I'll keep the smaller observations in mind, but I don't plan to broaden this pass into the Room-write placement, foreground status semantics, periodic ownership retry, or unused dwellJob unless the targeted fix exposes a related correctness requirement.

Define shared durable statuses for active, interrupted, and pending-restoration sessions. Keep Room queries and the switching DAO aligned on recoverable rows, and guard terminal writes against overwriting newer outcomes.

Cover status parity, recoverable filtering, and conditional updates in common DAO tests.
Add one device-owned RadioController operation that restores the captured primary channel before the LoRa configuration. Serialize restoration with selected-device changes and issue both writes through one local edit-settings transaction so stale recovery cannot retune a replacement radio.

Keep the shared fake focused on device ownership and write ordering, and cover transaction boundaries, ownership rejection, partial write failure, and device-selection serialization.
Own captured radio restoration in the application scope so interrupted and pending sessions recover across disconnects and foreground timeouts. Bind each restore attempt to the captured selected device while keeping reconnect waits, write failures, and ownership changes bounded and recoverable.

Consolidate recovery-aware discovery DAO and radio test seams, and cover late completion, cancellation, retry, device replacement, and Room-compatible behavior.

Keep the discovery-local radio wrapper transparent to shared scan-engine fault injection so combined lifecycle coverage composes without exposing a second fake implementation.
Serialize scan startup, stop, reset, failure, and natural completion around one terminal owner. Preserve required joined follow-up work while making dwell persistence exact-once, scheduling home restoration cancellation-safely, and preventing stale cleanup from publishing into a newer scan.

Revalidate device and transport ownership across suspending startup, bound configuration capture, contain optional topology failures, and keep a new scan from displacing active terminal cleanup.

Cover terminal races, persistence failures, restart admission, and stale joined outcomes. Keep terminal-coordinator races finite and structured, and name callback roles explicitly so before-finalize failure coverage cannot bind silently to optional AI generation.
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@jamesarich Follow-up is complete.

The PR description now explicitly requires #6716 to merge first. Discovery restoration deliberately uses its admission-aware local settings transaction so an undispatched or cleared commit remains retryable instead of allowing the session to be finalized as restored from enqueue-only evidence.

The exhausted-write barrier is also fixed on the discovery side. After the conditional UNRESTORABLE status update is durably accepted, the matching in-memory pending restore is cleared so same-device scans are not blocked until process restart. If the terminal status write throws, affects no row, or loses ownership, the barrier remains in place with recoverable durable state rather than failing open. Coverage pins both the released-barrier and persistence-failure cases.

The smaller observations remain intentionally outside this focused pass.

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jeremiah-k marked this pull request as ready for review August 15, 2026 20:28
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Merged via the queue into meshtastic:main with commit 41414f8 Aug 16, 2026
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