Retry BLE with fresh LE scan on br-connection-not-supported (0.1.15)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project uses Semantic Versioning.
 
+## [0.1.15] - 2026-03-07
+
+### Fixed
+- Added BLE recovery path for `br-connection-not-supported`: the connector now forces a fresh LE scan target resolution and retries before returning an error.
+
 ## [0.1.14] - 2026-03-07
 
 ### Fixed

fichero/printer.py

@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ async def connect(
             )
 
         last_exc: Exception | None = None
+        forced_rescan_done = False
         for attempt in range(1, BLE_CONNECT_RETRIES + 1):
             try:
                 async with BleakClient(target) as client:
@@ -466,8 +467,15 @@ async def connect(
             except BleakDBusError as exc:
                 msg = str(exc).lower()
                 if "br-connection-not-supported" in msg:
+                    last_exc = exc
+                    if not forced_rescan_done:
+                        forced_rescan_done = True
+                        target = await resolve_ble_target(None)
+                        if attempt < BLE_CONNECT_RETRIES:
+                            await asyncio.sleep(BLE_CONNECT_BACKOFF * attempt)
+                            continue
                     raise PrinterError(
-                        "BLE connection failed (br-connection-not-supported). "
+                        "BLE connection failed (br-connection-not-supported) after LE rescan. "
                         "Try Classic Bluetooth with classic=true and channel=1."
                     ) from exc
                 last_exc = exc

fichero_printer/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.1.15
+
+- Added a BLE recovery retry for `br-connection-not-supported` that forces fresh LE target resolution from scan results before failing.
+
 ## 0.1.14
 
 - Prevented BLE fallback to raw MAC connects and now require discovered LE device resolution, reducing `br-connection-not-supported` regressions on some BlueZ hosts.

fichero_printer/config.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: "Fichero Printer"
-version: "0.1.14"
+version: "0.1.15"
 slug: "fichero_printer"
 description: "REST API for the Fichero D11s (AiYin) thermal label printer over Bluetooth"
 url: "https://git.leuschner.dev/Tobias/Fichero"

fichero_printer/fichero/printer.py

@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ async def connect(
             )
 
         last_exc: Exception | None = None
+        forced_rescan_done = False
         for attempt in range(1, BLE_CONNECT_RETRIES + 1):
             try:
                 async with BleakClient(target) as client:
@@ -466,8 +467,15 @@ async def connect(
             except BleakDBusError as exc:
                 msg = str(exc).lower()
                 if "br-connection-not-supported" in msg:
+                    last_exc = exc
+                    if not forced_rescan_done:
+                        forced_rescan_done = True
+                        target = await resolve_ble_target(None)
+                        if attempt < BLE_CONNECT_RETRIES:
+                            await asyncio.sleep(BLE_CONNECT_BACKOFF * attempt)
+                            continue
                     raise PrinterError(
-                        "BLE connection failed (br-connection-not-supported). "
+                        "BLE connection failed (br-connection-not-supported) after LE rescan. "
                         "Try Classic Bluetooth with classic=true and channel=1."
                     ) from exc
                 last_exc = exc

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "fichero-printer"
-version = "0.1.14"
+version = "0.1.15"
 description = "Fichero D11s thermal label printer - BLE CLI tool"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [