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Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki 6be5420fcf Stop trusting an alarm the phone published months ago
Belt-and-braces for the publishing race fixed in the previous commit. That bug
is gone, but the shape of the failure is worth closing on this side too: a
publish that never happens is indistinguishable from one that has not changed,
so the last successful publish stayed authoritative forever. One record stamped
2026-08-09 had the PC starting the morning routine at 07:00 for three weeks.

get_alarm now skips any record the phone published longer ago than
PUBLISHED_ALARM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS (14 days) and falls back. That is safe
precisely because FALLBACK_ALARM_HOUR is the phone's own baseline, so a lapsed
record degrades to the right answer rather than to a guess -- and an override
is one-shot anyway, so reverting to the baseline is what the phone would say.

The check is on when the PHONE stamped it, never on when we fetched, and that
distinction is the whole design. Checking the fetch would be trivially
defeated: the cache is rewritten from the same stale record every few minutes,
so `fetched_at` is always fresh no matter how old the record behind it is.
So the winning HLC's instant is now carried out of _alarm_payload, through
_sync_transport, and persisted in the cache as `published_at`. Nothing else
reads that cache any more -- the shutdown wrapper that used to went with the
PC's waking role -- so widening its shape is free.

An undated record is trusted rather than expired. The GitHub mirror reads a
single fixed path with no per-field HLC, so treating "cannot tell how old this
is" as "too old" would break that whole backend, and refusing an alarm we
merely failed to date is a worse failure than honouring it.

test_sync.py and test_sync_backends.py crossed the 250-line cap, so the new
lapse cases and the backend-ordering cases move to test_sync_lapsed.py and
test_sync_dispatch.py.

168 tests at 100% branch coverage. Verified against the real backend: the
cache now carries published_at, and `_sync --show` still resolves 08:00 from
the record the phone stamped minutes earlier.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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wake_alarm

The phone is the alarm. phone_app/ arms and rings it, and getting past it means walking between two NFC tags and answering three questions. This repo's Python half no longer wakes anyone: all it does is read the alarm time the phone published and start the morning routine (the workout lock) at that time.

The dismiss sequence

Strict, ordered, and latched — every stage required, and a stage once passed never reverts:

tag 1  ->  25 steps + 2 min  ->  tag 2  ->  3 challenges

The two tags must be distinct and live in different rooms; the same id in both slots is refused at registration. Answers are cumulative, so a wrong one costs the attempt and nothing else.

One fallback, deliberately narrow. After 5 minutes of ringing — or immediately if NFC is off or fewer than two tags are registered — the two tag stages are skipped and the challenge count rises to 6. The walk is never skipped. Without a hatch of some kind, a dead tag at 06:00 leaves an alarm that cannot be switched off at all.

Details, and the things that are a hard crash or a silent no-ring: DOCS-phone-alarm.md.

The PC half

A per-minute systemd user timer (wake-alarm-trigger.timer) reads the alarm the phone published through the shared crdt_sync transport, and at that time starts morning-routine.service, which runs the workout lock. It records a once-per-day latch so the rest of the catch-up window does not restart it.

That is all it does. There is no alarm window, no audio, no smart plug, no rtcwake, and no shutdown wrapper.

Install

bash install.sh      # trigger timer
bash uninstall.sh    # removes it, and any retired waking machinery

install.sh installs the package into system Python's user site-packages (the units run /usr/bin/python directly, not a venv — see CLAUDE.md) and enables the timer. It also clears the retired pieces an older install left behind, notably /usr/local/bin/shutdown, which is root-owned and would otherwise keep turning shutdown now into a hibernate forever.

Reading the phone's alarm uses the shared ~/.config/crdt-sync/firebase.json. The GitHub mirror (fallback only) needs a repo-scoped token at ~/.config/wake_alarm/sync.json as {"token": "..."}.

Usage

python -m wake_alarm._sync --show        # what alarm time the PC resolves
python -m wake_alarm._trigger --dry-run  # what the next tick would do
journalctl --user -fu wake-alarm-trigger.service  # watch it live

Development

python -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv/bin/pre-commit install && .venv/bin/pre-commit install --hook-type pre-push
.venv/bin/python -m pytest wake_alarm/tests/ --cov=wake_alarm --cov-branch --cov-fail-under=100
cd phone_app && flutter test && flutter analyze

The dev venv lacks gatelock, so anything importing _state (including _trigger) needs /usr/bin/python3, not .venv/bin/python.

See CLAUDE.md for the sync resolution chain, the cross-repo coupling to morning_routine, and production deployment gotchas.