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Manual Bluetooth discovery scan remains unreliable on Windows #5

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Summary

Manual Bluetooth discovery scan is still marked as unreliable on Windows and may not consistently find newly powered-on devices.

Observed behavior

The UI warns that manual discovery is a future/testing addition and may not work reliably in all Windows/Bluetooth states.

Expected behavior

Manual scan should either work reliably enough to be a supported control, or remain explicitly framed as experimental with clear fallback steps.

Truth/safety impact

Medium. Device discovery results can be misread as "device absent" when the actual state is Windows BLE/cache weirdness or scanner failure.

Acceptance criteria

  • Document known Windows scan failure modes.
  • Add logging that distinguishes scan started, scan completed, no compatible devices found, scanner failure, and manager restart fallback.
  • Decide whether manual scan is public-alpha supported or explicitly experimental.

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    bleBluetooth Low Energy behaviorbugSomething is broken or unreliabletruthfulnessCould make the bridge overclaim, hide uncertainty, or confuse stateuiBrowser interfacewindowsWindows-specific behavior or scripts

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