I/O-8 Flex Status

The Q-SYS I/O-8 Flex Channel Expander adds several expansion capabilities to the Q-SYS platform.

The I/O-8 Flex Status component provides the current status for network (LAN A , LAN B), clocking, power (PoE or Aux Power), and backup equipment. The Status component provide the configuration properties for the I/O-8 Flex.

Refer to the I/O-8 Flex Hardware topic for an explanation of the controls and connectors. Refer to the I/O-8 Flex User Manual for detailed installation instructions, and specifications.

Properties

Status

Property	Function	Choices
Name	User-defined network name given to the I/O USB Bridge. 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.	User-defined
Location	User-defined name that groups the component with other components in the same physical location, or in the same organizational scheme.	User-defined
Is Network Redundant	Indicates that the USB Video Bridge is connected to redundant networks. LAN B information is displayed in the Audio Streams section of the Control Panel.	Yes / No
Is Required	When Is Required is set to Yes, an error displays if the hardware does not exist on the network. This is the default behavior. When Is Required is set to No, the device is identified as not present, its status state is Not Present which is not considered an error. The color displayed for “Not Present” equipment is gray. If a device is dynamically assignable but has not been assigned, it is considered Not Present” even if it is required.	Yes / No
Dynamically Paired	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 Dynamic Pairing for more information.	Yes / No
Verbose	When set to Yes, the Control Panel displays Audio Stream Input and Output Statistics along with a Reset button to reset the statistics to zero. NOTE: This field displays only when you have the I/O USB Status component in the design and selected. All other Properties are the same whether you have the USB Video Bridge or the I/O USB Bridge Status component selected.	Yes / No
Is Redundant	If you have redundant I/O-8 Flex units in the installation select Yes, otherwise, leave it as No.	No / Yes
Backup Name	The name given to the Backup I/O-8 Flex unit. This name is required only when Is Redundant is set to Yes.

USB Bridging Properties

Control	Function	Default / Range
Connection	Green LED indicating that the USB Out component is connected to a computer.	Off / On
USB Speed	Speed of the USB Connection. For example: High (2.0)	N / A
Active	Green LED indicating that signal is streaming.	Off / On
More button	Click to show or hide the details listed below. (Samples, SRC+, SRC-)	N / A
Samples	Total number of samples since the audio started, or since the count has been reset.	N / A
SRC+	The number of samples added in order to match the USB clock with the Q-SYS PTP clock	N / A
SRC-	The number of samples removed in order to match the USB clock with the Q-SYS PTP clock	N / A
Reset	Resets the Sample count for the associated audio device.	N / A

Controls

Each control listed in the Analog and Digital sections, are one per channel.

I/O-8 Flex Status

Control

Function

Default / Range

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.

The indicators will flash for 5 minutes unless you stop them by pressing any one of the buttons.

Off / On

Status LED

This LED changes color to indicate the current status of the I/O-8 Flex. See Status for the meanings of the various colors.

N / A

Status

Displays color-coded messages indicating the current status of the active I/O-8 Flex.

NOTE: These conditions are examples, and may not be applicable to all components with a Status field.

OK – Green – (0) – Audio is good, hardware is good.

Compromised – Orange – (1) – Audio is good but a redundancy mechanism is active (one LAN down but the other is still up) or a non-fatal hardware problem exists (fans too slow, temperature higher than expected, etc.)

Fault – Red – (2) – Audio is not passing, or hardware is malfunctioning or mis-configured (amplifier power off, audio streams broken, wrong type of I/O Card installed, loudspeaker short circuit, etc.)

Missing – Red – (3) – A piece of hardware, defined in the design, has not been discovered. Audio is not passing through that piece of hardware.

Initializing – Blue – (5) – In the process of firmware, configuration update, and design start. Audio is obviously bad.

Not Present – Gray – A virtual component in the design, that is designated as Dynamically Paired, and Not Required ,has no hardware assigned to it.

N / A

Clock Offset

Indicates how much of an offset exists between this I/O-8 Flex and the Master Clock.

No default

Microseconds

Grandmaster

The clock master of the network. See ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol#Architecture)

N / A

Parent Port

The device and interface name to which this device is syncing. Usually it is the same as the Grandmaster name.

N / A

Details

You must set Verbose to Yes in the Properties for this field to display.

Text indicating the Details of any errors occurring with the I/O-8 Flex. The information in this field is updated regularly and is cumulative. None of the items listed below display unless there is a value associated with it. If there are values associated with these, call Support.

fpga_fifo_error	sequence_error
recv_fifo_error	xmit_task_early
xmit_fifo_error	xmit_task_late
recv_dma_error	xmit_task_error
xmit_dma_error	xmit_overrun
sync_error	clock_sync_loss

N / A

Reset Details

You must set Verbose to Yes in the Properties for this field to display.

Press this button to reset the details to zero.

N / A

Power

Control	Function	Default / Range
PoE A Plus	LED indicating that power over Ethernet is being used to power the unit.	On /Off
Aux Power	LED indicating that Auxiliary is being used to power the unit.	Off / On

Primary / Backup

You must have "Is Redundant" set to Yes in the Properties. The following table is for both the Primary and Backup units.

Control	Function	Default / Range
Details	Displays the details of LAN A (LAN B) network status.	N / A
Active	LED indicating which LAN is currently in use. Green indicates "in use".	On / Off
Go Active	Press this radio button to have the "other" I/O-8 Flex unit go active.	On / Off
Standby	LED indicating that the associated I/O-8 Flex unit is in standby.	Off / On

Audio Streams

You must have "Is Network Redundant" set to Yes in the Properties to see LAN B information.

Control	Function	Default / Range
Input / Output OK LED (LAN A / LAN B)	This LED changes color to indicate the current status of the I/O-8 Flex. See Status for the meanings of the various colors.	N / A
Suppress button	If the I/O-8 Flex is installed and "Is Network Redundant" is set to yes, but the redundant network is not connected, an error is displayed, This button suppresses the error that would be caused by LAN B not being connected.	Off / On
Input / Output Details	You must have Verbose set to Yes in the Properties. The following details are available: connected=1 (=1 connected / =0 not connected) dscp=34 (Differentiated services code point) You can change this number in the Design Properties dialog (Menu > File > Design Properties). accept_count= (number of packets accepted)	N / A

Control

Function

Default / Range

Input / Output OK LED

(LAN A / LAN B)

This LED changes color to indicate the current status of the I/O-8 Flex. See Status for the meanings of the various colors.

N / A

Suppress button

If the I/O-8 Flex is installed and "Is Network Redundant" is set to yes, but the redundant network is not connected, an error is displayed, This button suppresses the error that would be caused by LAN B not being connected.

Off / On

Input / Output Details

You must have Verbose set to Yes in the Properties.

The following details are available:

connected=1 (=1 connected / =0 not connected)

dscp=34 (Differentiated services code point) You can change this number in the Design Properties dialog (Menu > File > Design Properties).

accept_count= (number of packets accepted)

N / A

Control Pins

Pin Name	Value	String	Position	Pins Available
Aux Power Active	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
Backup I/O-8 Flex Active	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
Backup I/O-8 Flex Go Active	0 1	false true	0 1	Input / Output
Backup I/O-8 Flex Standby	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
Backup I/O-8 Flex Status	Text display			Output
Clock Grandmaster Name	Text display			Output
Clock Offset From Master	0.000 to n	0 ms to n ms	0 to 1.000	Output
Clock Parent Port Name	Text display			Output
LAN A/B Input Stream Details	Text display			Output
LAN A/B Input Stream OK	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
LAN A/B Output Stream Details
LAN A/B Output Stream OK	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
LAN B Suppress	0 1	false true	0 1	Input / Output
Identify	0 1	false true	0 1	Input / Output
POE A Plus Active	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
Primary I/O-8 Flex Active	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
Primary I/O-8 Flex Go Active	0 1	false true	0 1	Input / Output
Primary I/O-8 Flex Standby	0 1	false true	0 1	Output
Primary I/O-8 Flex Status	Text display			Output
Reset Details	0 1	false true	0 1	Input / Output