Q-sys Touch Screen

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Q-SYS TSC Series Gen 3 offer a complete redesign to deliver higher performance and modern aesthetics, enabling intuitive AV&C controls for any space. Available in three sizes, the TSC-50-G3 (5-inch), TSC-70-G3 (7-inch) and TSC-101-G3 (10.1-inch) feature increased resolution with significantly improved screen transitions, integrated ambient light sensors for brightness, and a sleek new design. In addition, the 7-inch and 10-inch offer customizable RGB LED status to indicate call/mute status, room-in-use, etc. as well as proximity sensors that waken the screens on approach.

Like all Q-SYS touch screen controllers, integrators can deploy fully customizable user control interfaces (UCIs) with a unique drag-and-drop UCI Editor within Q-SYS Designer Software, the singular software used to build UCIs, DSP and control programming. Designers can further standardize and expedite the design deployment of UCIs with the optional use of cascading style sheets (CSS) and the newly released UCI Controller.

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The touch screen Status / Control component provides the connection between the physical touch screen and the Q-SYS Designer User Control Interface (UCI). In order to make the connection, you must specify the hardware's hostname, network redundancy status, and assign a UCI. Once the physical hardware is identified, the touch screen component provides the hardware status.

The Name may contain ASCII letters 'a' through 'z' (case-insensitive), the digits '0' through '9', and the hyphen. Names cannot begin or end with a hyphen. No other symbols, punctuation characters, or blank spaces are permitted.

When enabled, and the device is not found on the network, the device is reported as 'Missing', which is an error condition. This is the default behavior. When disabled, and the device is not found on the network, the device is reported as 'Not Present', which is not an error condition.

Indicates that this virtual component can be paired with the same type of hardware without changing the network ID of the hardware or the name of this component. Refer to the Q-SYS Core Manager Dynamic Pairing topic for more information. The default is 'No'.

(TSC Series Gen 2 and Gen 3 only . Select the orientation to match the touchscreen physical installation. To prevent the need of reinstalling the unit, you can select one of the "flipped" orientations.

Use the Label property to change the name of the component in the schematic. The Label property defaults to the component name. To learn more about renaming schematic elements, see Organizing Your Design.

When the ID / Identify button, in the Q-SYS Designer Status component, or the Configurator's Network Configuration for the hardware, or on the physical hardware is pressed, the ID buttons in the Configurator and Status component flash, and the LCD on the physical Hardware flashes to indicate the association between the three.

USB Audio Bridge must not be set to Disable to see this control. This text field displays the clock difference between the TSC-7t and the Master Clock. The unit of measure is indicated in the text readout.

USB Audio Bridge must not be set to Disable to see this control. The device and interface name that this device is syncing to when it's not the clock master. Usually it is the same as the Grandmaster name.

When this trigger button is pressed, the USB driver will be reinitialized without a full design redeploy. Any connected host PC will see the connected device disappear for a few seconds and when the driver is reinitialized, the connection will be restored and USB functionality recovered.

When this control is activated, the keypad that displays when you touch a numeric-type control (Gain knob, Fader, Time, and so on) is disabled. The keypad does not display when a numeric-type control is touched.

Q-SYS offers a family of high-resolution touch screen controllers native to the Q-SYS Platform. These network capacitive PoE touch screens display fully customizable user control interface (UCI), which can be designed with the Q-SYS UCI Editor within the Q-SYS Designer Software.

Drag and drop any control Q-SYS element from a Q-SYS design schematic into UCI Editor, add UCI PIN protection as an additional layer of security protection and easily deploy your design to the touch screen, without any programming experience. UCI Editor allows the import of room diagrams, corporate logos or other graphical elements in all major graphic file formats.

The TSC-47W-G2 can operate in both portrait or landscape mode providing integrators even more design flexibility when installing in a wall, lectern or a similar flat surface. In addition, these units include accessories for mounting to US and European standard wall and junction boxes.

As with all Q-SYS touch screens, you can easily create custom graphical user control interfaces (UCIs) for the TSC-47W-G2 directly within Q-SYS Designer Software. Simple drag-and-drop configuration allows integrators to provide end users a full range of controls, from complete systems control and monitoring to one-touch deployments of complex presets.

In this example, Lightbar is configured to display the same color on both the left and right side LED bars. (The Light Bar Drive Mode is set to "One color for all LEDs".) The Color control pin is exposed, and receives the color chosen via the Color Picker component.

These properties are specific to the Lightbar component for the TSC-70-G3 or TSC-101-G3 touch screen controllers. Other TSC touch screen property definitions can be found in the Status/Control (Touch Screen) topic.

This is the hexadecimal code that corresponds to the selected color being output to the touch screen controller's light bars - either the same color for all LEDs or for individual LEDs, depending on the Light Bar Drive Mode. This control is read-only within the control panel, but is changeable when sending a hex code (or a color name) to the Color input control pin.

As with allQ-SYS touch screens, you can easily create custom graphical user control interfaces (UCIs) for the TSC-47W-G2 directly withinQ-SYS Designer Software. Simple drag-and-drop configuration allows integrators to provide end users a full range of controls, from complete systems control and monitoring to one-touch deployments of complex presets.

The fact is, though, Q-SYS Designer Software already provides the capability to access your User Control Interface from a web browser. In cinemas this feature is used frequently to allow a technician to access user controls from their own device while on-site for service and maintenance. Your Q-SYS system design can be configured to control all sorts of automation like your masking curtains, lighting, background music and more. And any of this control, as well as standard functions such as gain control, format presets, status indicators, and testing and monitoring capabilities can be added to your UCI and assigned to any of your touchscreens.

A couple of caveats: The plug-in requires Scripting and UCI licenses. The latter you probably already have if you are creating QR Codes for your touchscreens. And your system needs to be able to access the internet, at least while you are generating the codes. So if your Q-SYS system is operating on its own network and does not have access to the internet, this feature might not be beneficial to you. However, you could simply generate the codes using the directions discussed in this recorded webinar (starting at 14:23.)

No longer must your staff run to the nearest touch screen to activate the door magnets or turn on the auditorium lights to allow another few minutes for cleaning. The controls can be right there in their pocket.

How about some alternate ideas? What about creating a special UCI just for techs, packed with test and measurement tools, analyzers, format presets, all of your GPIO controls for masking motors, dimmers, your projector lamp and dowser, amplifier and loudspeaker status and metering that is not available to your cinema staff on your existing touchscreens? Just provide the QR code to scan when they arrive on site.

How about a QR code that the manager can scan so she can use her phone to check system operational status without having to touch any screen except the one she brought with her from home? She might even want to get it started from her car in the parking lot once in Wi-Fi range.

Control elements and layout for GUIs on this versatile touch screen controller are completely customizable to provide end users a full range of controls, from complete system control and monitoring, to one-touch deployments of preprogrammed presets.

Designers can create custom user control interfaces (UCI) within Q-SYS Designer Software using the UCI Editor. Drag and drop any control Q-SYS element from a Q-SYS design schematic into UCI Editor and easily deploy your design to the touch screen, without any programming experience.

UCI Editor allows the import of room diagrams, corporate logos or other graphical elements in most major graphic file formats including .png, .jpg, .svf, and .gif. In order to deploy UCI designs onto Q-SYS touch screens, a software license is required for each Q-SYS Core processor.

TSC-G2 Series touch screen controllers are offered in black and designed for easy surface mount installation in a wall, lectern or similar flat surface. Universal mounting accessories are included for standard US and European wall and junction boxes for vertical or horizontal installations.

• Capacitive LCD Touch Surface: In-plane switching (IPS) technology
• High Resolution Display: 1280x800 pixels with 400 Nits (brightness)
• Power Over Ethernet: Allows for simplified single cable installation
• Universal Mounting Options: Included accessories for mounting to US standard and European wall and junction boxes
• Versatile: Ability to wall mount in portrait or landscape orientation; optional table top mount accessory is available
• Complete design freedom: Drag and drop any control Q-SYS element from a Q-SYS design schematic into UCI Editor and easily deploy your design to the touch screen, without any programming experience. Q-SYS UCI Editor allows the import of room diagrams, corporate logos or other graphical elements in all major graphic file formats.