UCI Creation and Management

The Q-SYS User Control Interface, or UCI for short, provides the means for the end user to

control parts of the Q-SYS design through a networked device like a Q-SYS Touch Screen controller,

a Windows-based PC, an iPhone, iPad, you name it.

The choice is yours as to how much or how little you'd like the user to be able to control the system,

and the amount of creativity you put into designing your UCI can really go a long way.

In this design we’ll go through the basic steps of creating, editing, and deploying a UCI,

and along the way you’ll see some pretty cool UCIs that have been designed by actual Q-SYS users

Your first step is to go to the User Control Interfaces panel in the Left-Side Pane.

By default there is a UCI here titled Inventory Status, and if you just started your design

there should be one page called Default Location. You cannot remove, rename,

or edit this UCI, which will automatically be populated with the status bars of the items in your inventory,

like this Core status, right here. If you customize the name of your location of your inventory items,

then this UCI page will change from Default Location to the name you have supplied.

For instance if I were to go over here and change this to "front of house"

and go back to my UCI Control, there it’s already changed.

To create your own, customized UCI, click the Plus icon in the UCI panel

and select New User Control Interface. And now you now have a new blank UCI with one Page in it.

If you click the Plus icon again now, you’ll have a new option to add a Page to Interface 1,

and that will give you a 2nd page on your UCI.

Now you'll notice that navigation tabs have appeared on your UCI.

By default these tabs automatically show-up on the left-hand side, but if you select your UCI

and you come over here to Page Tabs you can change the position of that.

You can put it at the bottom, at the right, at the top, I’m going to put them back to the left.

You also can adjust the Font Size in your UCI, let's go ahead and bring this back up to 20 maybe. The last option for Page Tabs is called None.

If you select None, the tabs will disappear,

but you still probably want your user to be able to move from screen to screen.

There are a few ways to accomplish this.

You could simply drag a Page icon from the UCI panel into the UCI,

which will create a button that you can customize the appearance of.

The other way is for touchscreens only and that you can do just by swiping between pages,

like you would on any iOS device. This function is available on the QSC TSC-8, iPhone, and iPad.

Let’s look at the other options in the Properties panel. You can change your UCI’s title,

you can disable the swipe option for touchscreens, and here is where you select the Panel Type.

Now this is where you will decide what the size of your UCI is.

You can see that when you change your selection the dimensions of the UCI page

are automatically adjusted to the appropriate size of your device.

Because of this, it’s important that you select your Panel Type

and Page Tab orientation before adding content to your UCI,

or else your content may end up outside the visible area.

Other Panel Types include Generic 4:3 ratio, 16:9 ratio, and 16:10 ratio, iPad, iPhone, TSC-3

and the TSC-8. There’s one other option, which is the Custom option which lets you choose

the diagonal size of your UCI and the vertical and horizontal resolution of your UCI.

For most panel types, you can also specify your orientation to be in Landscape or Portrait mode.

Finally, if you activate the Private field then this UCI will be hidden from iOS and Windows UCI viewers,

allowing them to only be viewed by the QSC Touchscreen controllers.

Each Page of the UCI has its own Properties panel, in which you can change its Title.

So we’ll call this one Audio Controls and you can also change the Fill color,

so let’s go ahead and change that to a nice black.

Note that if you change the title of the pages, these names will automatically populate on your Page Tabs,

but you will have to manually change any navigation buttons you’ve already created.

Let’s go ahead and do that. If you need to take a quick break, go for it, if not, go to the next section.