Built beyond the demo

A connected lamp should recover without becoming a project.

Stormdrop is still a private-pilot product, so reliability is something we are testing—not a finished promise. The engineering goal is simple: ordinary network trouble and software updates should not require an owner to become a technician.

Connection recovery

The lamp keeps trying intelligently

If weather requests repeatedly fail, Stormdrop escalates from reconnecting Wi-Fi to showing a visible offline state and, after prolonged failure, attempting a controlled reboot. It retains the last successful weather display while recovery is underway.

Verified updates

Firmware must prove it came from Stormdrop

Production firmware is cryptographically signed. The lamp verifies the signature before accepting an update, reducing the risk of unauthorized software being installed.

Rollback

A new release has to survive probation

Stormdrop stores updates in separate firmware partitions and applies a software probation check after boot. Current pilot evidence does not yet prove every crash and power-loss case; production bootloader rollback must pass destructive bench testing before it is treated as finished.

Weather continuity

More than one provider path

Apple WeatherKit supplies the primary current-condition path; OpenWeather supplies ZIP geocoding and fallback current conditions. Selected active alerts distributed through NOAA's National Weather Service—Tornado Warnings, Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, and smoke-attributed Air Quality Alerts—can override the ordinary provider condition.

Privacy and diagnostics

Collect enough to support the lamp—not a hidden life profile.

A connected lamp periodically reports limited status information used for online state, firmware rollout, and diagnosis. That currently includes its Wi-Fi MAC address, firmware version, selected ZIP code, and last-seen time. The public privacy policy describes the current system and request process.

Read the Privacy Policy

What is still in progress

Friends-and-family pilot validation across more homes and networks
FCC Part 15B testing before hardware sales
Production bootloader rollback proof, Secure Boot, encrypted credential storage, and per-device security processes
Provider-side deletion, final retention rules, and public-release proof against the privacy policy
A written long-term cloud support and end-of-life commitment
Final warranty, returns, fulfillment, and production quality policies

Why publish this now?

Trust should be specific enough to verify.

Stormdrop will not describe unfinished work as shipped or call a pilot product failure-proof. This page will evolve as testing, production security, compliance, and support policies become real.

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