[captainR0bbo]

Problem

Apple Watch simulators never show up in the Device panel, even though they are installed and can be booted. With five watchOS 27.2 simulators installed, the panel lists only the iPhone.

expo-device-hub's /api/devices (0.19.1, pinned here, and still in 0.22.1) keeps only simulators whose runtime is iOS (device.platform === "iOS"), so watchOS simulators are dropped before T3 sees them.

Change

The hub's bundled serve-sim already lists iOS|watchOS|visionOS runtimes at /vendor/serve-sim/grid/api. It also boots, streams and screenshots them through the same paths T3 already uses for iOS simulators (/api/devices/boot runs a plain simctl boot, and /grid/api/start attaches the stream).

DeviceHubOperations.list now fetches that grid alongside /api/devices, concurrently, and adds watchOS entries the hub left out. They are reported as platform: "ios" (Apple simulator) with a watchOS x.y version. If the grid request fails, the listing works as before. The hub's own simctl listing already reports Apple simulator failures, so this one is only logged at debug level.

The Xcode 26 screenshot fallback (simctl on the default display when the hub rejects a numeric display ID) now also matches watchOS N versions. Before, it only matched iOS N, so watchOS 26 screenshots on Xcode 26 would have failed with no fallback.

visionOS is deliberately left out to keep this to the reported problem.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious gap: watchOS simulators are Apple simulators that the hub can already boot and stream, but T3 never lists them. It touches one function and does not change any contract, client or default.

Verification

• Added lists watchOS simulators that the hub's device list leaves out in DeviceService.test.ts. It fails on main and passes with this change.
• Extended retries a hub-rejected screenshot with simctl only on iOS and watchOS 26 and older with watchOS 26 and 27 cases. The watchOS 26 case fails without the fallback change.
• vp test run src/device/ passed: 208 tests across 16 files.
• vp run check:changed passed: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests.
• Ran it against a real expo-device-hub@0.19.1 on macOS with Xcode (watchOS 27.2 runtime), using the patched makeDeviceHubOperations:

listed: iOS 27.2       iPhone 18 Pro Max booted=false
listed: watchOS 27.2   Apple Watch SE 3 (40mm) booted=false
listed: watchOS 27.2   Apple Watch SE 3 (44mm) booted=false
listed: watchOS 27.2   Apple Watch Series 12 (42mm) booted=false
listed: watchOS 27.2   Apple Watch Series 12 (46mm) booted=false
listed: watchOS 27.2   Apple Watch Ultra 4 (49mm) booted=false
booting Apple Watch SE 3 (40mm) (CB343EC8-…)
after boot booted=true
screenshot bytes=8154 pngMagic=PNG
shut down

Not checked: the panel UI in the desktop or mobile clients, and Xcode 26 (the watchOS 26 fallback is covered by the unit test only).

Known limit: agent-device (0.21.31, and still in today's nightly) has no watchOS backend ("XCUITest cannot drive watchOS UI, so this device has no runner backend"). Agents can see a watch with device_screenshot, but the device_open command cannot open apps or tap on it. This PR only makes watches listable, bootable and viewable in the panel.

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at e12f4de

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds missing watchOS simulators to the device panel through the existing hub, with deduplication and a timeout-protected fallback. Device actions and product defaults remain unchanged, keeping the exposure limited.

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Walkthrough

DeviceHubOperations.list now adds recognized watchOS simulators from the serve-sim grid to its results. Runtime checks and screenshot retry tests now include watchOS versions.

Changes: WatchOS support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
WatchOS runtime compatibility apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.test.ts	Runtime version checks include iOS and watchOS. Screenshot retry tests expect watchOS 27.2 to fail after hub rejection and watchOS 26.2 to succeed through the simctl fallback.
Discover and merge watch simulators apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.test.ts	The listing fetches hub devices and the serve-sim grid concurrently. It maps recognized watchOS entries to iOS device records, omits entries whose IDs already occur among hub simulators, and treats grid failures or timeouts as an empty watch-device list. Tests check watchOS inclusion and xrOS exclusion.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DeviceHubOperations.list
  participant DeviceHub
  participant ServeSimGrid
  par Fetch hub devices
    DeviceHubOperations.list->>DeviceHub: Request device list
    DeviceHub-->>DeviceHubOperations.list: Return hub devices
  and Fetch simulator grid
    DeviceHubOperations.list->>ServeSimGrid: Request iOS serve-sim grid
    ServeSimGrid-->>DeviceHubOperations.list: Return runtime entries
  end
  DeviceHubOperations.list->>DeviceHubOperations.list: Map watchOS entries and omit IDs already in hub simulators

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Suggested reviewers: shivamhwp, juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to a1ad2

Device listing remains mergeable with awareness that a slow optional grid response can delay the panel, even when the main device list is ready.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the primary change: listing watchOS simulators in the device panel.
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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Nitpick comments: 2

apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts: 2

160-162: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Log the failure at a level operators can see, or keep it as is deliberately.

The catchCause handler logs every failure at debug level and returns []. This includes unexpected failures such as a schema decode error from a changed grid payload. Expected failures are a grid endpoint that is absent or a request timeout. Unexpected failures are silently hidden in normal operation. A watchOS listing that stops working then leaves no trace.

The comment on Line 159 says the hub's simctl listing reports Apple simulator failures. That claim holds only for simctl errors. It does not hold for grid payload parsing.

Consider logging at warning level for decode failures only, and keep debug for transport failures.

Based on learnings: "Log such errors before falling back; do not log expected errors that merely select the fallback path."

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts around lines
160 - 162:
Update the watchOS simulator listing’s Effect.catchCause handler to distinguish
grid payload decode failures from expected missing-endpoint and timeout
failures. Log decode failures at warning level before returning the existing
empty-list fallback, and keep expected transport failures at debug level; use
the project’s established error classification rather than treating every cause
as a decode failure.

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166-177: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Confirm that the grid request does not delay the hub listing.

Effect.all with concurrency: 2 waits for both effects. The watch request has its own 40-second timeout, so a slow grid endpoint delays the whole list by up to 40 seconds, even when /api/devices answered quickly. The hub is expected to serve both endpoints, so this is likely rare. A shorter timeout for the optional grid request would limit the impact.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts around lines
166 - 177:
Apply a shorter timeout to the optional listWatchSimulators request before it is
combined with the hub device fetch in Effect.all, so a slow grid endpoint cannot
hold up listing for the hub request’s full timeout. Preserve the existing
timeout and error behavior for the /api/devices request.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts:
- Around line 189-195: Update the screenshot fallback logic in
DeviceHubOperations so watchOS 26 can use the fallback when Xcode 26 supplies a
numeric display ID, even when watchOS does not match runsOnXcode26Runtime.
Preserve existing behavior for newer runtimes and add a focused test for this
watchOS case.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts:
- Around line 160-162: Update the watchOS simulator listing’s Effect.catchCause
handler to distinguish grid payload decode failures from expected
missing-endpoint and timeout failures. Log decode failures at warning level
before returning the existing empty-list fallback, and keep expected transport
failures at debug level; use the project’s established error classification
rather than treating every cause as a decode failure.
- Around line 166-177: Apply a shorter timeout to the optional
listWatchSimulators request before it is combined with the hub device fetch in
Effect.all, so a slow grid endpoint cannot hold up listing for the hub request’s
full timeout. Preserve the existing timeout and error behavior for the
/api/devices request.

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[captainR0bbo]

Thanks, CodeRabbit. The watchOS 26 screenshot fallback is fixed in a1ad21f. I'm leaving the two nitpicks as they are:

• Debug-level log for a failed watch listing. Kept on purpose. The grid is an optional addition to the main listing. If it fails, the result is the same as before this PR, and the hub's /api/devices already reports simctl failures. Happy to log decode failures at warning level if maintainers want that.
• Shorter timeout for the grid request. Skipped. The grid reads the same simctl list as /api/devices, which already allows up to 40 s. A shorter limit would make watches drop out of the list whenever simctl is slow, and it wouldn't speed up a listing that /api/devices is already waiting on.