AI SKILL

Dead Air Watchdog Guide

Teaches an AI assistant to help you set up silence monitoring from the app's manual: sound cards and streams, threshold and time, monitoring hours, frozen audio, micro-silences, email, Telegram, HTTP and heartbeat.

What it does

Say what you monitor and describe the false alarm or the missing alert.

  • Inputs and thresholds. Sound card channel pairs and streams, default -50 dBFS and 30 seconds, and how audio is judged back.
  • Alerts that arrive. Email, Telegram, webhook, sound, repeats, grouping, heartbeat for a computer that is down.
  • Reading the log. Causes, pauses, micro-silences, availability and common problems.

Where it helps

For anyone monitoring a station or stream with Dead Air Watchdog. It follows the manual of version 26.11.2 and cannot see your inputs. It is not a certified instrument.

How to use it

  1. Add the skill folder to Claude as a Skill, or open the universal prompt file and paste it into ChatGPT, Gemini or any assistant (custom GPT, Gem, system prompt, or the start of a chat).
  2. Describe your problem in your own words. The skill asks the few questions that change the answer.
  3. Check the answer against your equipment manuals and, where it matters, a measurement.

Limits

A skill makes an AI assistant more careful, not infallible. It cannot see your equipment, it can be wrong, and standards and platforms change. Every skill lists its sources and what it does not know, and shows whether a person has validated it. Mains power, RF power and structural work always need a qualified person.

Changelog

  • 26.10.2 2026-10-29

    First release. Status: to validate (not yet reviewed by a broadcast engineer).