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29 changes: 20 additions & 9 deletions docs/arbiter-support.md
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Expand Up @@ -161,7 +161,12 @@ main layer with these keys replaced (matrix key, then the FN code):
- `LShift` gives code 249, which the vendor labels **SuperTap**. `LAlt`,
`RAlt` and `LWin` hold codes 242/242/243; 242 is labelled **Fn**.
- `Esc` (224), `Enter` (148), `RShift` (202) and the arrows (204, 205, 206,
207) hold reserved codes the vendor gives no label.
207) hold reserved codes the vendor gives no label. A Polar 65+ owner
decoded them from the keyboard's onboard shortcuts: `Enter` changes RGB
mode, `RShift` switches between the 7 preset colors, `↑`/`↓` adjust
brightness, `←`/`→` adjust effect speed, `Esc` (hold 5 s) factory-resets,
and the `Windows` key (243) toggles game mode. They drive keyboard
functions locally, not settings OpenMouse writes.
- **75 PRO (8 keys):** `F9`-`F12` give previous, play/pause, next and `Print`;
`` ` `` gives `Insert`; `LShift` gives SuperTap (249); `RAlt` gives Fn (242);
`Home` gives `End`.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -190,8 +195,8 @@ not say.
| `GetKeyMappingPerKeys` | 29 | short | defined on the PRO classes but never called by the bundle; not implemented | |
| `GetAllProfile` | 35 | long | `index\|total<<4` (total 10) | requested packet by packet until `index == total - 1`; payload not decoded |
| `SetBoardProfile` | 38 | short | one byte, the profile index | data change flag |
| `GetUserMode` | 53 | short | none (`dataSize` 6) | 6 bytes, see SuperTap |
| `SetUserMode` | 52 | short | 6 bytes, see SuperTap | data change flag |
| `GetUserMode` | 53 | short | none (`dataSize` 6) | 6 bytes (original) or 10 bytes (current generation), see SuperTap |
| `SetUserMode` | 52 | short | 6 bytes (original) or 10 bytes (current generation), see SuperTap | data change flag |

Keys in the travel and mapping tables follow the layout array `keyMaxtrix`
(68 entries for the 65s, listed in the bundle as `_P`/`J4`), not HID usages.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -263,14 +268,20 @@ held, only the later press counts. This comes from Arbiter's announcement and
press reviews, not from the firmware, so the exact resolution rule (for example
what happens on release) is unconfirmed.

**What the wire carries.** `SetUserMode`/`GetUserMode` carry six bytes:
**What the wire carries.** The original generation carries six bytes:
`[layoutIndex, mode, checkFlag, flag & 0x7F | alternative-bit, keyIndex0,
keyIndex1]`. The vendor app writes `mode` 1, `flag` 0 and `alternative` 0, takes
`layoutIndex` from the current layer, reads `checkFlag > 0` as enabled and
keyIndex1]`. The current generation (Polar 65+, app2 vendor app) carries an
eight-byte header `[layoutIndex, reserved1, reserved2, mode, checkFlag,
flag & 0x7F | alternative-bit, keyIndex0, keyIndex1]` plus two zero pad
bytes, i.e. ten on the wire; its get-reply is accepted with eight or more
bytes. Both generations write `mode` 1, `flag` 0 and `alternative` 0, take
`layoutIndex` from the current layer, read `checkFlag > 0` as enabled and
`keyIndex0/1` as the two keys of the pair. In its UI you switch SuperTap on,
click one of two key tiles and then a key on the keyboard drawing. Turning the
switch saves the profile before sending the user mode. Only models with
`superTapSupport` expose it.
`superTapSupport` expose it. The driver sends each model its own size
(`userModeBytes` in the catalog); the Polar 65+ needs ten, everything else
stays on six until a capture proves otherwise.

**`keyIndex` is a wire index, not a matrix position.** The vendor app finds each
key's position in the main layer's layout array and sends that index; the `s2`
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -339,8 +350,8 @@ Behavior worth knowing:
matrix defaults are all `0`. It only carries a nonzero value if the keyboard
itself reports one. The driver therefore writes `0` for a rebound key and
leaves other keys' values untouched.
- What the FN layer's reserved codes (224, 148, 202, 204-207, 243) do, and how
the keyboard activates the layer; only the factory defaults are known.
- How the keyboard activates the FN layer; only the factory defaults are known
(a Polar 65+ owner has decoded what most reserved codes do — see above).
- Which of the `s2` travel read and write sizes is right (see
[Table sizes](#table-sizes)).
- Wireless, Bluetooth and dongle transports. The bundle has per-transport
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41 changes: 32 additions & 9 deletions src/arbiter/index.ts
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Expand Up @@ -82,15 +82,24 @@ export interface ArbiterProduct {
layers: number;
profiles: number;
superTap: boolean;
/**
* User-mode wire size. The original generation carries six bytes
* `[layoutIndex, mode, checkFlag, flag, keyIndex0, keyIndex1]`; the
* current generation (Polar 65+, app2 vendor app) carries an eight-byte
* header `[layoutIndex, reserved1, reserved2, mode, checkFlag, flag,
* keyIndex0, keyIndex1]` plus two zero pad bytes, i.e. ten on the wire.
*/
userModeBytes: 6 | 10;
/** False until the model is exercised through this package on hardware. */
verified: boolean;
}

const product = (
name: string, vendorId: number, productId: number, usagePage: number,
protocol: ArbiterProtocol, travelKeys: number, bindingKeys: number, layers: number, profiles: number, superTap: boolean,
userModeBytes: 6 | 10 = 6,
): ArbiterProduct => ({
name, vendorId, productId, usagePage, protocol, travelKeys, bindingKeys, layers, profiles, superTap, verified: false,
name, vendorId, productId, usagePage, protocol, travelKeys, bindingKeys, layers, profiles, superTap, userModeBytes, verified: false,
});

/**
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -121,7 +130,7 @@ export const ARBITER_PRODUCTS: readonly ArbiterProduct[] = [
// travel writes total 3 (29+29+10 = 68), key-mapping writes total 5
// (29x4+20 = 136 = 2 layers x 68), SetBoardProfile values 0-2, and
// Get/SetUserMode traffic, matching the i2 (65 PRO) class.
product("Polar 65+", ARBITER_VENDOR_ID_ALT, 0xa009, 0xff02, "i2", 68, 68, 2, 3, true),
product("Polar 65+", ARBITER_VENDOR_ID_ALT, 0xa009, 0xff02, "i2", 68, 68, 2, 3, true, 10),
product("Polar 75 PRO", ARBITER_VENDOR_ID_ALT, 0xa001, 0xff02, "u2", 82, 81, 2, 3, true),
];

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -448,25 +457,39 @@ export interface ArbiterUserMode {
keyIndex: readonly [number, number];
}

export function decodeArbiterUserMode(reply: ArbiterReply): ArbiterUserMode | null {
if (reply.command !== ARBITER_COMMAND.getUserMode || reply.data.length !== ARBITER_USER_MODE_SIZE) return null;
export function decodeArbiterUserMode(reply: ArbiterReply, userModeBytes: 6 | 10 = 6): ArbiterUserMode | null {
if (reply.command !== ARBITER_COMMAND.getUserMode) return null;
const data = reply.data;
if (userModeBytes === 10) {
// Current generation: the board answers ten bytes; the first eight are
// the header, the last two are zero padding.
if (data.length < 8) return null;
return {
layoutIndex: data[0]!, mode: data[3]!, checkFlag: data[4]!,
flag: data[5]! & 0x7f, alternative: data[5]! >> 7, keyIndex: [data[6]!, data[7]!],
};
}
if (data.length !== ARBITER_USER_MODE_SIZE) return null;
return {
layoutIndex: data[0]!, mode: data[1]!, checkFlag: data[2]!,
flag: data[3]! & 0x7f, alternative: data[3]! >> 7, keyIndex: [data[4]!, data[5]!],
};
}

export function encodeArbiterUserModeWrite(mode: ArbiterUserMode): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
const bytes = [mode.layoutIndex, mode.mode, mode.checkFlag, mode.keyIndex[0], mode.keyIndex[1]];
export function encodeArbiterUserModeWrite(mode: ArbiterUserMode, userModeBytes: 6 | 10 = 6): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
const bytes = userModeBytes === 10
? [mode.layoutIndex, 0, 0, mode.mode, mode.checkFlag, mode.keyIndex[0], mode.keyIndex[1]]
: [mode.layoutIndex, mode.mode, mode.checkFlag, mode.keyIndex[0], mode.keyIndex[1]];
for (const value of bytes) {
if (!Number.isInteger(value) || value < 0 || value > 0xff) throw new RangeError("Arbiter user-mode values are whole numbers from 0 to 255.");
}
if (!Number.isInteger(mode.flag) || mode.flag < 0 || mode.flag > 0x7f) throw new RangeError("Arbiter user-mode flag is 0-127.");
if (mode.alternative !== 0 && mode.alternative !== 1) throw new RangeError("Arbiter user-mode alternative is 0 or 1.");
return encodeArbiterRequest(ARBITER_COMMAND.setUserMode, ARBITER_PACKET.short, [
mode.layoutIndex, mode.mode, mode.checkFlag, mode.flag | (mode.alternative << 7), mode.keyIndex[0], mode.keyIndex[1],
]);
const flag = mode.flag | (mode.alternative << 7);
const body = userModeBytes === 10
? [mode.layoutIndex, 0, 0, mode.mode, mode.checkFlag, flag, mode.keyIndex[0], mode.keyIndex[1], 0, 0]
: [mode.layoutIndex, mode.mode, mode.checkFlag, flag, mode.keyIndex[0], mode.keyIndex[1]];
return encodeArbiterRequest(ARBITER_COMMAND.setUserMode, ARBITER_PACKET.short, body);
}

/** Firmware reply: byte 0 is the low and byte 7 the high version byte, shown as `V{high}{low}`. */
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Expand Up @@ -147,6 +147,15 @@ test("user mode splits the flag from the alternative bit", () => {
assert.equal(decodeArbiterUserMode(decodeArbiterReply(reply(53, [1, 2]))!), null);
assert.throws(() => encodeArbiterUserModeWrite({ ...decoded!, flag: 128 }), RangeError);
assert.throws(() => encodeArbiterUserModeWrite({ ...decoded!, alternative: 2 as never }), RangeError);
// Current generation (Polar 65+, app2 vendor app): eight header bytes plus
// two zero pad bytes, as captured on real hardware.
const decoded10 = decodeArbiterUserMode(decodeArbiterReply(reply(53, [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0x1f, 0x21, 0, 0]))!, 10);
assert.deepEqual(decoded10, { layoutIndex: 0, mode: 1, checkFlag: 1, flag: 0, alternative: 0, keyIndex: [0x1f, 0x21] });
const frame10 = encodeArbiterUserModeWrite(decoded10!, 10);
assert.deepEqual([...frame10.slice(0, 5)], [0, 52, 0, 10, 0]);
assert.deepEqual([...frame10.slice(4, 14)], [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0x1f, 0x21, 0, 0]);
assert.equal(decodeArbiterUserMode(decodeArbiterReply(reply(53, [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0]))!, 10), null);
assert.equal(decodeArbiterUserMode(decodeArbiterReply(reply(53, [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0x1f, 0x21, 0, 0]))!), null);
});

test("write acknowledgements read the flag and tolerate a short body", () => {
Expand All @@ -165,6 +174,8 @@ test("the catalog matches the vendor bundle and is entirely unverified", () => {
// 0xA009 lives on 0xFF02 only: that is the page the vendor app claims,
// and the board's 0xFF01 collection answers nothing.
assert.equal(arbiterProduct(0x371c, 0xa009, 0xff02)?.protocol, "i2");
assert.equal(arbiterProduct(0x371c, 0xa009, 0xff02)?.userModeBytes, 10);
assert.deepEqual(ARBITER_PRODUCTS.map((entry) => entry.userModeBytes), [6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10, 6]);
assert.equal(arbiterProduct(0x371c, 0xa009, 0xff01), undefined);
assert.deepEqual(ARBITER_PRODUCTS.map((entry) => [entry.name, entry.travelKeys, entry.bindingKeys, arbiterTravelPackets(entry), arbiterKeyMappingPackets(entry)]), [
["Arbiter Polar 65", 68, 68, 3, 3], ["Arbiter Polar 65", 68, 68, 3, 3], ["Polar 65", 68, 68, 3, 3], ["Nimbus 65", 68, 68, 3, 3],
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Expand Up @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ export class ArbiterKeyboardHidClient {

private async readUserModeValue(): Promise<ArbiterUserMode> {
const reply = await this.exchange(ARBITER_COMMAND.getUserMode, encodeArbiterShortRead(ARBITER_COMMAND.getUserMode));

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Use the required GetUserMode request size.

encodeArbiterShortRead() sets dataSize to 0 for user-mode reads. The documented GetUserMode request uses dataSize 6. A Polar 65+ firmware that validates this field may reject the read before SuperTap confirmation.

Make the request use the Polar 65+ captured size, and keep the documentation consistent if that size is not 6. The ten-byte reply decoder does not change the request field.

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Review comment at @src/drivers/arbiter/hid.ts at line 338:
Update the GetUserMode request in the user-mode read flow to use the Polar 65+
captured request dataSize of 6 instead of the zero-size value from
encodeArbiterShortRead; keep any related documentation consistent with the
implemented size, without changing the ten-byte reply decoder.

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const mode = decodeArbiterUserMode(reply);
const mode = decodeArbiterUserMode(reply, this.requireProduct().userModeBytes);
if (!mode) throw new Error("The Arbiter keyboard returned an unreadable user mode.");
return mode;
}
Expand All @@ -345,14 +345,16 @@ export class ArbiterKeyboardHidClient {
setUserMode(mode: ArbiterUserMode): Promise<ArbiterUserMode> {
return this.serialized(async () => {
this.requireSuperTap();
const frame = encodeArbiterUserModeWrite(mode);
const userModeBytes = this.requireProduct().userModeBytes;
const frame = encodeArbiterUserModeWrite(mode, userModeBytes);
const ack = await this.exchange(ARBITER_COMMAND.setUserMode, frame);
if (decodeArbiterWriteAck(ack, ARBITER_COMMAND.setUserMode) === null) {
throw new Error("The Arbiter keyboard did not acknowledge the user mode.");
}
const confirmed = await this.readUserModeValue();
const echoed = encodeArbiterUserModeWrite(confirmed);
if (frame.slice(4, 10).some((byte, i) => byte !== echoed[4 + i])) {
const echoed = encodeArbiterUserModeWrite(confirmed, userModeBytes);
const size = frame[3]!;
if (frame.slice(4, 4 + size).some((byte, i) => byte !== echoed[4 + i])) {
throw new Error("The Arbiter keyboard did not retain the user mode.");
}
return confirmed;
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