fix(ble): 3 connect attempts and drop half-open links on failed session setup

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Summary

Bluetooth connects now try up to 3 connection paths (was 2), and a failed session setup no longer leaves a half-open link.

Field evidence (Home Assistant 2026.10.0b0, tesla-fleet-api 1.17.2, habluetooth debug logs): connect() stopped after 2 attempts. With three paths available (hci0 at RSSI -59, the garage-door-v2 ESPHome proxy at -62, the claude-dial proxy at -90), attempt 1 went to hci0 and failed instantly, attempt 2 went to garage-door-v2 and timed out after 20 s, and the flow gave up before trying a third path. After a failed handshake the link also appeared to stay half-open, so later retries kept timing out.

1. Connect budget: 3 attempts (was 2)

• DEFAULT_CONNECT_ATTEMPTS = 3. Under habluetooth, each attempt picks the best path again, so an adapter plus two proxies can all be tried in one connect.
• The per-attempt timeout is unchanged: bleak-retry-connector's fixed ~20 s. The worst case when every attempt times out goes from ~40 s to ~60 s. Shortening the per-attempt timeout will be handled in a separate change.

2. Failed session setup disconnects the link

_drop_link() stops keepalive and runs a bounded (5 s), best-effort client.disconnect(). It never raises, so the original error is the one that surfaces. It is called on failure from:

• connect(): any failure after establish_connection, including non-Bleak exceptions, which previously left the client connected.
• the VCSEC handshake in _sendVehicleSecurity, and the public handshakeVehicleSecurity();
• the infotainment handshake in the command path, and the public handshakeInfotainment();
• pair(), and a failed wake_up(wait=True).

Exemptions:

• SigningDisabled: a passive listener keeps its held link.
• Cancellation.
• An infotainment handshake timeout while VCSEC reports the car asleep. That read proves the link is alive and a sleeping car's infotainment is expected to be silent. Dropping the link here would disconnect and reconnect a held broadcast link on every read of a parked car.

Commands._handshake and session-info authentication are not touched; a separate change owns those.

3. Error types are unchanged

Connect failures are still BluetoothTransportError, with bleak-retry-connector's typed error as __cause__. Tests drive the real establish_connection loop and check that BleakNotFoundError (all attempts timed out → "out of range") and BleakOutOfConnectionSlotsError survive.

Known limit (habluetooth path ranking)

Path ranking belongs to habluetooth. It ranks paths by RSSI. Each past failure costs only 0.51 × (RSSI gap between the top two paths), and that count only resets on a successful connect. A much weaker path that does work (the captain's -94 proxy) is therefore reached faster across repeated connects than before. Reaching it within a single connect() is not guaranteed.

Tests

• New tests/test_ble_connect_failover.py:
  • the captured field sequence (adapter fails, proxy times out, third path connects) succeeds with the new default and fails with max_attempts=2;
  • error causes are preserved;
  • link teardown runs on each failure path, the exempt cases keep the link, and a failed teardown never hides the original error.
• tests/test_ble_connect_retry_budget.py: the default is at least 3 and still below bleak-retry-connector's own default of 4.
• uv run pytest tests: 890 passed. pyright strict: 0 errors. ruff: clean.

Changelog

• BLE: connect()/connect_if_needed() now make up to 3 connection attempts by default (was 2), so Home Assistant can try another connection path before giving up.
• BLE: a failed session setup over an established link (notification setup, handshake timeout or rejection, pairing, wake_up(wait=True)) now disconnects before raising, so the vehicle isn't left with a half-open link.

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The default BLE connection attempt count increases from two to three. Connection and session setup failures now trigger bounded link cleanup, with exceptions for signing-disabled operations and infotainment timeouts when VCSEC reports that the vehicle is asleep.

Changes

BLE connection behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retry budget and connection teardown tesla_fleet_api/tesla/vehicle/bluetooth.py, tests/test_ble_connect_failover.py, tests/test_ble_connect_retry_budget.py, docs/bluetooth_vehicles.md	The default connection attempt count increases to three. Connection failures trigger bounded, best-effort link teardown. Tests cover retry limits and retained connector error causes. Documentation describes the retry timing and connection-path reselection.
Session setup failure cleanup tesla_fleet_api/tesla/vehicle/bluetooth.py, tests/test_ble_connect_failover.py, tests/test_session_info_authentication.py, docs/bluetooth_vehicles.md	Failures during handshake, pairing, and awaited wake operations trigger link cleanup. Infotainment timeouts retain the link when VCSEC reports that the vehicle is asleep. Tests cover cleanup, retention, and preservation of the original error.

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

Change: Bug fix

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No new merge-blocking issue is established for the BLE retry and cleanup changes. Normal validation should still be completed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 05556

Bounded cleanup improves failure recovery, and the inspected authentication checks remain intact. A localized race between cleanup and reconnection can nevertheless report a healthy replacement connection as disconnected. Interrupted cleanup and session recovery across replacement links also remain incompletely established.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Failure cleanup can publish disconnected state for a healthy replacement connection. It clears client A from the instance, awaits A's disconnect, and then unconditionally publishes False. Meanwhile, connect_if_needed can install and subscribe client B because cleanup does not share its lock. The stale callback filter protects against A's disconnect callback, but not cleanup's final state update. This newly exposes failed-session recovery to inconsistent connection ownership and misleading recovery notifications.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A failing peer or transport can trigger cleanup of the instance-wide BLE link used by both vehicle-security and infotainment operations, affecting concurrent work and connection listeners. The shared Commands retry change also affects callers inheriting that implementation; the complete dependent set is not established by the capped relationship coverage.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Malformed session-info replies can consume the bounded authentication retry budget and cause failure cleanup. The inspected path does not convert those rejected replies into authenticated readiness: the persistent empty-tag test asserts three writes, an authentication exception, a cleared client and an unready session. This supports failure containment, not a conclusion of complete security coverage.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new BLE wrappers retain the existing Commands protocol boundary. SigningDisabled prevents handshake initiation without a signing key, and failed infotainment setup does not mark that session ready merely because the sleeping-car branch retains a useful BLE link.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Previously ready session material persists across link replacement, while request validation and anti-replay state remain in place. Persistence alone is not evidence of an authentication flaw. The inspected evidence does not establish the protocol contract for cross-link reuse, pending-waiter recovery or cancellation after cleanup has already detached the client.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Give teardown and reconnect a shared lifecycle ownership mechanism, such as client-generation checks or serialization, so completion of an old teardown cannot mutate a replacement connection's state. Establish terminal-state behavior for cancellation during teardown without discarding anti-replay state indiscriminately.

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Id like this PR to cut out the bleak wrapper and timeout change, and then handle that part seperately. I feel the bleak wrap is a bit of a hack. In this version set retires to 3 but keep any of the other fixes in here unrelated to the bleak wrapper.

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🟡 Minor · Invalidate domain sessions when the BLE link is lost. · bluetooth.py:728

tesla_fleet_api/tesla/vehicle/bluetooth.py:728
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Invalidate domain sessions when the BLE link is lost.

_drop_link() clears the client but leaves each Session unchanged. After reconnecting, _ensure_handshake() can therefore skip the handshake and sign a command with session material from the previous link. Reset every domain session when teardown or disconnection occurs.

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Review comment at @tesla_fleet_api/tesla/vehicle/bluetooth.py at line 728:
Update _drop_link() to reset every domain Session when the BLE link is torn
down, alongside clearing self.client, so reconnecting forces _ensure_handshake()
to establish fresh session material.

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