Bilbycast Bilbycast
Pillar 4 · Manager & AI

Manage your media plant like software, not appliances.

One control plane for Bilbycast and third-party broadcast devices. AI-assisted flow creation, real-time topology, multi-tenant Groups with brand theming. Free for up to 10 nodes.

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Bilbycast Manager network topology view with edge nodes, relay servers, and live connections

Capabilities

Six things the manager does that vendor-specific dashboards don't.

Real-time topology

Live visual map of every edge, relay, and third-party device. Connections light up as data flows. Click any node for a deep-dive: live video preview, TR-101290 transport analysis, codec detection, fan-out topology.

AI-assisted flow creation

A built-in AI assistant understands your network topology and can create, analyze, and troubleshoot media flows via the driver-aware action system. Bring your own credentials for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini — credentials are stripped before any LLM context.

Driver-aware control of third-party devices

A plugin architecture treats every device type — Bilbycast edge, relay, and third-party broadcast hardware — as a self-contained driver. Today: Bilbycast and Appear X. Tomorrow: whatever you build with the Gateway SDK.

Multi-tenant Groups with brand theming

Tenant-isolated users, resources, and quotas with per-tenant logo and brand-colour theming. White-label out of the box. Cross-tenant tunnels, share-cron, ownership transfer, per-tenant Switcher pages.

Routines — automate show-day workflows

Cron-scheduled named target states across flows. DST-correct via IANA timezones. Real-time fire-partial / fire-failed / missed events. One routine can cue 50 flows simultaneously.

Per-node "Open Device Web UI" link

Operators add a URL on the node row that opens the device's own admin UI in a new tab. The manager is not in the request path — point the URL at whatever port-forward, SSH tunnel, or LAN address reaches the device from your browser.

Node Bus Matrix

Crosspoint authoring for the node-wide ES bus.

A Lawo-style routing matrix that turns one edge into a full distribution surface. Sources pane lists every input program; the crosspoint matrix runs along every output's assembled programs; the inspector lets you fine-tune slot splice modes and lipsync trim. Click-to-wire and drag-and-drop are equally first-class. Pending changes are highlighted in Lawo orange; Apply (N) commits every route atomically per flow.

  • Master-clock identity preflight — refuses cross-PTP / cross-PCR-PLL routes before the WS round-trip
  • Per-slot splice_mode dropdown — pmt_bump or pes_aligned for receiver-friendly switching
  • Save salvo — capture the current routing as a Switcher preset for one-click recall on show day
Bilbycast Node Bus Matrix — three-pane Sources / Crosspoint / Inspector layout
AI assistant

"Set up a 1080p H.264 SRT receive on edge-3 and fan out to YouTube and Twitch."

The manager exposes its driver-aware action system to a built-in LLM assistant. Describe what you want in plain English, the assistant proposes a flow definition, and you commit it with one click. Bring your own provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini — credentials never leave your tenant.

  • Knows your network topology and the live state of every device
  • Proposes flows, never executes — you commit the change
  • Stripped of credentials and tunnel keys before any LLM context
Bilbycast Manager AI assistant configuration
Bring your own keys

Three providers, one panel.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini cards sit side by side. Drop in your key, pick a model, save. Keys are envelope-encrypted at rest under the ai-key KEK domain and never appear in audit entries or API responses.

Bilbycast Manager AI API Keys page — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini provider cards

Security baseline

No bolt-ons. Every install ships with the same security primitives.

TOTP MFA
pure-Rust totp-rs
OIDC SSO
optional, with tenant-aware group sync
Envelope encryption
per-secret DEK wrapped by domain-specific KEK; HKDF-SHA256
Master-key rotation
one-shot CLI; no service restart required
Per-IP + per-account login limits
15-min lockout after 5 failed passwords
Encrypted backup & restore
portable export + DR-grade pg_dump archive (licensed)
Audit log

Every operator action, logged.

Group-scoped audit table with timestamp, user, action, target, and structured details — searchable by date range, action type, and target. Tenant-scoped: SuperAdmin sees everything; an Acme operator never sees Globex's history. Read-only by design — no API path deletes rows.

  • Switcher takes, routine fires, node CRUD, flow edits, AI-driven actions — all recorded
  • Structured details column holds the parameters of every action
  • AI-driven actions tagged with provider + model — full provenance for compliance reviews
Bilbycast Manager Audit Log — group-scoped, searchable table of every operator action
Bilbycast Manager managed-nodes roster view

Roster view across the full plant — health, version, capabilities, last-seen status.

Set it up in 10 minutes.

Runs on commodity off-the-shelf hardware. Edge and relay are free under AGPL 3; manager is free for up to 10 nodes. No sign-up wall, no credit card. The same binaries you'd run in production.