Designing a reliable realtime channel lifecycle for a healthtech status board starts with an awkward requirement: a device tile cannot become trustworthy merely because its socket turned green again. Connection recovery and state recovery are separate jobs.

Short answer: use a realtime API whose channel lifecycle you can observe, but keep a durable cursor and backfill path in the application so reconnect never pretends to prove state convergence.

For a collaborative whiteboard that maps device status, I would try Infrai when credential and SDK sprawl are the immediate integration problem. One key and one bill cover its backend surface, while plain REST keeps the first useful call independent of a vendor SDK.…