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Q-SYS UCI Creation & Deployment
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By now you should know that Q-SYS can control and automate
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any number of devices and processes within your system.
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But it’s hard to account for every possible scenario, right?
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Like that guy at the bar that asks for the weather instead of the big game.
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Is that a terrible human?
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Uh-huh.
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But can Q-SYS automate him out of the bar?
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Not yet.
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So these occasions and many others require an intuitive user control
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interface to manually control your Q-SYS system,
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which the Q-SYS control engine is ready and willing to serve up.
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Q-SYS Designer Software includes a full slate of creation tools for user control interfaces—
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or UCIs,for short.
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This makes it a breeze to deliver simple and
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intuitive control capabilities without complex or expensive programming.
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Let’s take a look at some of these in more detail.
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This business just needs basic video conferencing.
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We can drag-and-drop the controls and the preview window from the Q-SYS video bridge component
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directly onto the UCI,
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along with a few simple audio controls –
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let’s do microphone mute and audio levels.
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Easy.
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No programming.
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Now this sports bar needs something entirely different.
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Their staff – bartenders, servers, and managers (not technology professionals)
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need to quickly change which channel is feeding any one of these TVs,
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adjust the volume in each zone,
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and toggle between live tv and background music.
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Now, Horsey Racing and Dog Parkour is an exceptionally large sports complex.
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Their on-site technology staff needs very granular controls over every speaker in the system,
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while the other staffers only need a small subset of those controls for their locations –
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like a restaurant or a lounge.
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Q-SYS control is powerful enough to handle the most complex needs
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while delivering a simple and clean interface
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to control the entire space or a single location with minimal button presses.
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Many projects are unique, but that doesn’t mean
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that every user interface has to be created from the ground up.
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Re-using design elements is a great way to save time and money,
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and Q-SYS takes that one step further with Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS,
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to alter the look and feel of a UCI.
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Let’s take the same basic video conferencing design from earlier,
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and then apply an existing CSS from one of my
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previous projects and give it an entirely different look in
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just a few seconds.
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And if you want to provide your customers with the ability to
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control their AV systems with their own devices in addition to the touch screen controller,
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Q-SYS makes that pretty easy to do.
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So that’s about it for Q-SYS user control interfaces.
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Thanks for watching and we’ll see you next time.