Various aspects of the present disclosure enable a docking host that manages a docking environment to establish an initial connection between the docking host and one or more wireless peripheral devices to perform functionality determination of the wireless peripherals devices. The docking host may store the results of the functionality and, upon receiving a request from a dockee to access the functionality that the docking host may provide, will update the results. In one aspect of the disclosed approach, the docking host may determine the current state of the wireless peripheral devices before advertising any functionality information to the dockee. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.