A buffer desync on the shared persistent connection (commonly right after
a DRD/DOD test) can make a Measure? read return a stray value. The state
classifier treated anything not in {"Start","Measure"} as "not measuring",
so a garbled read logged a phantom STOPPED, the next clean read logged
STARTED, and that reset measurement_start_time — producing constant
STOPPED/STARTED device-log pairs and a drifting elapsed timer.
Now only recognized states drive transitions: {"Start","Measure"} =
measuring, {"Stop"} = stopped, anything else = no change. Garbled reads
are also not persisted as the cached state, so they can't poison the next
transition check. Builds on the earlier Start<->Measure normalization.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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