ARGOS MCR

Building the monitoring system television never had.

Twenty years working in broadcast left me a toolbox: monitoring scripts, custom alerts, ad-hoc dashboards — small fixes I built project by project whenever an operator told me “we’d need something that warns us if the signal drops without having to stare at the screen all day”. ARGOS is what happened when I put all those tools together and made them talk to each other. The opening came from modern dev tools, especially AI and Claude Code, which let me move from maintaining loose prototypes to operating a unified system in production. Today ARGOS runs 24/7 across five TV channels, with more than twenty monitored nodes and alert latency under one second, at argosmcr.tv.

My role at ARGOS is Project Manager and Technology Developer: define what to build, in what order, and ship it. The system architecture and the multi-tenant strategy are consequences of those decisions, not separate labels.

Three gods, one obsession: see everything in time.

Each component of the system is named after a Greek deity. It’s not a coincidence. Three layers solving three different problems.

ARGOS Panoptes — central core

«The all-seeing one»

Hundred-eyed giant who never rested. The central panel where signals, infrastructure, and operations converge. Advanced Reporting & Global Observability System.

HERMES — field agents

«Speed without limits»

The winged-sandaled messenger who delivered messages in milliseconds. Distributed agents on every node reporting back to the core. Hardware Emission & Remote Messaging Ecosystem System.

I.R.I.S. — notifications

«Rainbow joining sky and earth»

Messenger of the gods and bridge between worlds. The system that translates technical alerts into actionable notifications for the human team. Intelligent Reporting & Information Service.

Full control of the broadcast operation.

Master Control

• MASTER · Signal monitor — Real-time video, audio, and SRT. Automatic signal-loss detection with Telegram alerts.
• BROADCAST · vMix · ATEM · VideoHub — Production state, routing, and Blackmagic switcher control. Real-time routing map.

Infrastructure

• NODES · Distributed telemetry — HERMES agents reporting CPU, RAM, disk, and latency on every server in real time.
• NETWORK · UniFi network — APs, switches, and WAN. Connected clients and per-segment network status.
• ALERTS · P1–P5 traffic light — Five severity levels, configurable cooldowns, automatic notifications.
• LOGBOOK · Black box — Full history with end-to-end traceability for post-incident analysis.

Production & AI

• TIMECODES · Timecode logging — IN/OUT marking synced with vMix, stopwatch, YouTube, or local video. Automatic email export.
• TIMECODE VIEW · Collaborative sessions — Real-time monitor of active timecode sessions, without interfering with operations.
• AI · WHISPER · Live transcription — Whisper AI running locally. Real-time transcriptions and natural-language search.

The tools that existed were built for a different budget, or to solve a different problem. So I built a new one, assembled with what twenty years of broadcast had taught me to miss.

— Project notes, 2025

Today ARGOS runs 24/7 across A24, América TV, Aether TV, CH7, and My Padel TV.