Video Transcript
UCI Deployment
7m 11s
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Once your UCI is complete, it’s time to deploy it to a touchscreen.
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With a single button you could deploy your UCI to any number of QSC touchscreens, iPads, iPhones,
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tablets, or Windows PCs.
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Or, you could deploy hundreds of different UCIs to touchscreen across your enterprise.
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But first thing’s first
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as soon as you added a User Control Interface to your design,
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you may have noticed a notification in the top menu, as well as in the Design Inspector,
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that indicates your design incorporates a feature that requires a Feature license.
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In the Inspector you can see that UCI Deployment is listed under Licensed Elements.
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When you Save this design to a Core and Run, it will check to see if the Core has a UCI Deployment license.
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To learn more about Q-SYS software licenses,
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please watch our tutorial videos on how to add these licenses to your Core processor.
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Once your Core is authorized to deploy UCIs, doing so is very simple! Let’s look at QSC touchscreens first.
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QSC makes a variety of touchscreens in different sizes and formats, including tabletop and wall-mount versions.
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Since these are networked Q-SYS peripherals, they need to be added to your design’s Inventory.
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Like any inventory item, be sure that their name in their properties matches the name of the physical device,
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which you can find by using the Configurator tool.
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Then, take a look at the “UCI” property of this device.
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By default it displays the “Inventory Status” UCI,
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which is that generic status page for your inventory items that we saw earlier.
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To change this, simply select your own custom UCI from this drop-down menu.
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The next time you save this design to a Core, it will tell the touch screen to display your custom UCI.
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For wall-mount models, be sure to select “Landscape” or “Portrait”,
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and you may notice that you can choose the “Flipped” version of either of these
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if you realize the device was installed upside-down.
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In some cases, you may want a touch screen to have access to multiple different UCIs,
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perhaps depending on the user’s log on code. In this case, we’re going to change the “UCI Assignment” property.
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In “Static” mode it will only displays the single UCI that you’ve assigned,
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but in “Dynamic” mode this UCI assignment can be changed while the system is running.
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The selection point for this UCI now moves from the Properties panel into the touch screen’s control panel.
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Let’s drag the touch screen’s Status/Control component into our design to see this,
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and we’ll save this design to the Core.
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The Status tab shows us the health of the device, and the Configuration tab gives us some more options.
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Since this UCI is in Dynamic mode,
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you can see that I can change which UCI is displayed by using this dropdown menu here.
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You can do the same thing to manually change the Page control.
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This means that you could put these fields onto the UCI itself as an additional method of navigating the UCI,
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or you could capture the states of these controls with a custom Snapshot,
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which would let the user change the UCI, page, or any number of other controls in the design at the same time.
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Also in this area you can adjust the brightness of the Backlight on the Touchscreen,
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you can customize the number of minutes before the screen dims to half-brightness or turns off,
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you could manually trigger these states, and you can also Disable the Popup Number Pad.
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Certain controls like gain knobs give you the option to enter an exact value with a popup keypad,
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but if you’d prefer to deactivate this option, this button will do that.
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For QSC touch screens, that’s pretty much everything there is to know.
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Next, let’s look at iPhones and iPads.
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For these devices, you will first need to install the free Q-Sys Control App from the App Store.
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Then, connect your device to the same wireless network that your Q-SYS system is on.
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Now, you’ll see a list of all the available UCIs, and you can select which one you want to display.
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Remember, if you don’t want a certain UCI to be listed on this screen, change its Private setting to Yes.
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You can also access a UCI from a networked Windows desktop or tablet.
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Again, you’ll need to install some free software for this – in this case it’s the UCI Viewer application.
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This application comes zipped as a separate executable file when you download the Q-SYS Designer software.
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When you launch this standalone application on your Windows device,
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you’ll see a list of available UCIs on the network.
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This program has a couple of extra buttons to collapse the side panel… enter full screen mode…
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the top menu bar… etc.
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You can also right click to select each of these modes.
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Using the Q-SYS Control App or UCI Viewer software give you the advantage of selecting any UCI on the network,
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but there is one disadvantage.
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I showed you that you can manually change the UCI or Page
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that is currently displayed on a QSC native touch screen from within Q-SYS,
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because you have a component that represents that exact physical device.
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This loads a snapshot that might reset every touch screen to a welcome screen,
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or log every user off at the end of the day. You get the idea.
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But, there’s no corresponding component for your iPad, or Windows PC.
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So, how can you control that device from Q-SYS? Don’t worry – we’ve thought of that.
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For this case, you’ll want to go to your Inventory and add a UCI Viewer.
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Both the Q-SYS Control App and the UCI Viewer software can be configured to sync to this UCI Viewer,
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which can then in turn be controlled within Q-SYS.
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In the Windows application this is very easy
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simply select “UCI Viewers” rather than “UCI Names,” and you can sync with the UCI Viewer component of your choice.
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For iPads and iPhones, you actually need to navigate to your device’s Settings screen,
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and find the entry for Q-SYS Control.
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Here you’ll find an empty field called “UCI Viewer Name.”
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Be sure to enter the exact name of your UCI Viewer from the design into this field.
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Now when you connect, your device will sync with that UCI Viewer,
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and behave like a touch screen that can be controlled by Q-SYS.
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That’s it for deployment.
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DON’T FORGET that you CAN and SHOULD test your UCI in Emulation mode.
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You don’t need a UCI Deployment license for this, and you can even do it without a Core.
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So, now we’ve shown you all the tools you have at your disposal to build, customize, and deploy UCIs,
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but just because you have a hammer and chisel doesn’t mean you can make a sculpture.
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So, in the next videos we’ll dive into some basic concepts of how to make a UCI easy to understand and navigate,
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with the user experience in mind. Let’s take a quick break and we’ll see you next time.
Lesson Description
UCI Deployment
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Demonstrates how to deploy your UCI onto a PC or Touchscreen device.
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