diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 756ec34..9724b0a 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -179,6 +179,12 @@ scripts/capture_patterns.py --host cube.local <pattern id>` (frames come from
   repository secrets), but anything compiled in can be read out of a release.
   The broker's ACL is what keeps the shared login to a cube's own topics; a
   new setting reachable over MQTT goes in `lib/remote` and `Cube::applyRemote`.
+- **Parse JSON from the network through `WaitingStream`.**
+  `NetworkClientSecure` returns -1 from `read(buf, n)` whenever no data has
+  arrived yet, and `NetworkClient::readBytes()` takes that as the end, so
+  `deserializeJson(doc, http.getStream())` fails with `IncompleteInput` at
+  the first pause. That broke every development-channel update check in
+  v0.6.0-b2. Wrap the client: `WaitingStream body(http.getStream())`.
 - **Updates only go forwards.** The GitHub updater installs a release only
   if `firmware_image::isNewer()` says its tag is newer than `FW_VERSION`.
   GitHub's "latest" is the newest *stable* release, older than any beta.
diff --git a/lib/cube/updates.cpp b/lib/cube/updates.cpp
index 1954d96..fc102c7 100644
--- a/lib/cube/updates.cpp
+++ b/lib/cube/updates.cpp
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <esp_ota_ops.h>
 #include <esp_partition.h>
 #include "fonts.h"
+#include "waiting_stream.h"
 
 
 // The cube's custom app descriptor, placed right after the standard one in
@@ -780,7 +781,8 @@ bool Updates::findFirmwareRelease(String &tag, String &firmwareUrl)
     releaseFilter["assets"][0]["browser_download_url"] = true;
 
     JsonDocument doc(spiRamAllocator());
-    DeserializationError err = deserializeJson(doc, http.getStream(), DeserializationOption::Filter(filter));
+    WaitingStream body(http.getStream());
+    DeserializationError err = deserializeJson(doc, body, DeserializationOption::Filter(filter));
     http.end();
     if (err)
     {
diff --git a/lib/cube_utils/waiting_stream.h b/lib/cube_utils/waiting_stream.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0e0f85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/cube_utils/waiting_stream.h
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/**
+ * @file waiting_stream.h
+ * @brief A Stream view of a network client that waits for data instead of
+ * reporting the end of it.
+ */
+#ifndef WAITING_STREAM_H
+#define WAITING_STREAM_H
+
+#include <Arduino.h>
+
+/**
+ * @brief Wraps a network client so a parser reading from it waits through
+ * gaps in the data.
+ *
+ * NetworkClientSecure::read(buf, size) returns -1 whenever no decrypted data
+ * is ready yet, and NetworkClient::readBytes() treats -1 as an error and
+ * stops. ArduinoJson reads through readBytes(), so the first pause in a
+ * download -- every time, on a busy network -- ended the input and the parse
+ * failed with IncompleteInput. This class overrides only the single-byte
+ * read(), so Stream's own readBytes() is used: it retries until the client's
+ * timeout passes with nothing arriving.
+ */
+class WaitingStream : public Stream
+{
+public:
+    /** @param source the client to read from; its timeout is used. */
+    explicit WaitingStream(Stream &source) : source(source)
+    {
+        setTimeout(source.getTimeout());
+    }
+
+    int available() override { return source.available(); }
+    int read() override { return source.read(); }
+    int peek() override { return source.peek(); }
+    size_t write(uint8_t) override { return 0; }
+
+private:
+    Stream &source;
+};
+
+#endif
diff --git a/lib/patterns/weather/weather_pattern.cpp b/lib/patterns/weather/weather_pattern.cpp
index 3544db4..23356c8 100644
--- a/lib/patterns/weather/weather_pattern.cpp
+++ b/lib/patterns/weather/weather_pattern.cpp
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <ArduinoJson.h>
 #include <HTTPClient.h>
 #include <NetworkClientSecure.h>
+#include "waiting_stream.h"
 #include <WiFi.h>
 #include <math.h>
 
@@ -84,7 +85,8 @@ namespace
             http.end();
             return false;
         }
-        const DeserializationError err = deserializeJson(doc, http.getStream(), DeserializationOption::Filter(filter));
+        WaitingStream body(http.getStream());
+        const DeserializationError err = deserializeJson(doc, body, DeserializationOption::Filter(filter));
         http.end();
         if (err)
         {