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Reliability

Assume the field is hostile.

Satellite internet, Wi-Fi cameras, an iPad in direct sun, and two hours of live game with no do-overs. This is the part of the app with the most engineering in it, because this is the part that fails everywhere else.

The network

Built on Starlink, for Starlink.

This app streams real tournaments over a dish at centerfield. The adaptive bitrate isn't tuned against a simulator — it's tuned against satellite handovers, tree lines, and everything else a season of field days can throw at it.

  • Send-completion-timed ABR — bitrate reacts to how the network actually behaves, not a once-a-minute speed test. Holds through 13-second Starlink obstructions.
  • Dish telemetry — if a Starlink is on the network, the app reads its health directly and drops bitrate before packets are lost, not after.
  • Conservative recovery — after congestion clears, bitrate ramps back carefully. No yo-yoing your viewers between crisp and blocky.
  • Auto-reconnect, everywhere — every source and every destination retries with growing backoff. Cameras and platforms come back on their own, in seconds.

The viewers

When something does go wrong, your viewers hear it from you.

A frozen frame with no explanation is how you lose an audience. If a destination genuinely degrades, a quiet banner slides into the broadcast itself — "Experiencing difficulties," "Reconnecting," "Recovered" — and slides back out when things are healthy. Viewers wait out a rough patch they can see. They leave one they can't.

Your viewers see a status banner, not a mystery.

The device

Know before the anthem. Adapt during the game.

Pre-game check

  • Thermals, memory, and CPU headroom
  • Every camera reachable and answering
  • Real bandwidth to your streaming endpoints
  • Starlink signal quality, if you've got one
  • Pass/fail with a fix suggested for each miss

In-game

  • Live health strip — green to red, updated every couple of seconds
  • Pipeline Advisor auto-tunes FPS and features as the device heats up
  • Resolution is never quietly reduced — quality is the product
  • Background streaming — lock the iPad, take a call, the broadcast holds
  • Live Activities on the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen

Post-game

  • Wire-level telemetry CSV — every source, sender, and system metric
  • Recovery events logged with duration and cause
  • When something was weird, you can find out what — not guess

If the network blinks, the broadcast doesn't.

All of it. Free tier. Every install.

Reliability isn't an upsell. ABR, reconnect, health checks, the viewer banner, telemetry — every plan, including free.

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