Q-SYS UCI Creation & Deployment

By now you should know that Q-SYS can control and automate

any number of devices and processes within your system.

But it’s hard to account for every possible scenario, right?

Like that guy at the bar that asks for the weather instead of the big game.

Is that a terrible human?

Uh-huh.

But can Q-SYS automate him out of the bar?

Not yet.

So these occasions and many others require an intuitive user control  

interface to manually control your Q-SYS system,

which the Q-SYS control engine is ready and willing to serve up.

Q-SYS Designer Software includes a full slate of creation tools for user control interfaces—

or UCIs,for short.

This makes it a breeze to deliver simple and  

intuitive control capabilities without complex or expensive programming.

Let’s take a look at some of these in more detail.

This business just needs basic video conferencing.

We can drag-and-drop the controls and the preview window from the Q-SYS video bridge component

directly onto the UCI,

along with a few simple audio controls –

let’s do microphone mute and audio levels.

Easy.

No programming.

Now this sports bar needs something entirely different.

Their staff – bartenders, servers, and managers (not technology professionals)

need to quickly change which channel is feeding any one of these TVs,

adjust the volume in each zone,

and toggle between live tv and background music.

Now, Horsey Racing and Dog Parkour is an exceptionally large sports complex.

Their on-site technology staff needs very granular controls over every speaker in the system,

while the other staffers only need a small subset of those controls for their locations –

like a restaurant or a lounge.

Q-SYS control is powerful enough to handle the most complex needs  

while delivering a simple and clean interface

to control the entire space or a single location with minimal button presses.

Many projects are unique, but that doesn’t mean  

that every user interface has to be created from the ground up.

Re-using design elements is a great way to save time and money,

and Q-SYS takes that one step further with Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS,  

to alter the look and feel of a UCI.

Let’s take the same basic video conferencing design from earlier,

and then apply an existing CSS from one of my  

previous projects and give it an entirely different look in

just a few seconds.

And if you want to provide your customers with the ability to

control their AV systems with their own devices in addition to the touch screen controller,

Q-SYS makes that pretty easy to do.

So that’s about it for Q-SYS user control interfaces.

Thanks for watching and we’ll see you next time.