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Touchscreen Status / Control

The Touchscreen Status / Controller components provide the connection between the physical touchscreen 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 touchscreen component provides the hardware status.

For information on supported touchscreens, see Q-SYS Hardware.

IMPORTANT:   Make sure you use the proper Q-SYS Designer component for the hardware connected to your Core. The TSC components are not interchangeable.

ClosedControls
ClosedTouchscreen Status

Control

Function

Default / Range

ID

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.

N/A

Status LED

This LED changes color to indicate the current status of the Touchscreen. See Touchscreen Status for the meanings of the various colors.

N/A

Touchscreen Status

Displays the current status of the Touchscreen in both text and color. The following is a list of possible status colors, and some example conditions.

OK – Green – (0) – Communication method is good, hardware is good.

Compromised – Orange – (1) – Communication 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) – No communication, 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.

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

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

(TSC-7t only)

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.

N/A

Grandmaster

(TSC-7t only)

USB Audio Bridge must not be set to Disable to see this control. The clock master of the network. See ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol#Architecture)

N/A

Parent Port

(TSC-7t only)

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.

N/A
ClosedAudio Streams (TSC-7t Only)

To see the following items, you must have Is Network Redundant set to Yes, Verbose Set to Yes, and USB Bridging enabled with the Sound Card(s) or Speakerphone in the Schematic.

Control

Function

Default / Range

Input OK

Multi-colored LED indicating the status of the LAN connections to the TSC-7t.

N/A

Input Details

Must have Verbose in the TSC-7t Property set to Yes.

Details concerning the audio input to the TSC-7t.

connected

dscp

accept_count

drop_count

discontinuity_count

on_time

too_late

N/A

Output OK

Multi-colored LED indicating the status of the LAN connections to the TSC-7t

N/A

Output Details

Must have Verbose in the TSC-7t Property set to Yes.

Details concerning the audio output from the TSC-7t.

connected

dscp

accept_count

drop_count

discontinuity_count

on_time

too_late

N/A

Suppress

When activated, the system ignores the status of LAN B from the determination of overall stream status. Turn it on if your design is configured for redundant networking but you choose to not hook it up. The system will still use LAN B if it is connected, but will not indicate an error if LAN B isn’t connected.

 false / true
ClosedUSB Bridging and USB Audio (TSC-7t only)

To see the following items, you must have Is Network Redundant set to Yes, Verbose Set to Yes, and USB Bridging enabled with the Sound Card(s) or Speakerphone in the Schematic.

Control

Function

Default / Range

Connection

LED indicating the presence or absence of a USB Bridging connection.

false / true

More

Displays additional information for the USB Audio Inputs and Outputs. For each input and output, SRC+, SRC-, and Reset is displayed.

 false / true

The following items have 1 each of the next five controls / indicators.

USB NEC (EC) Speakerphone 1 In

USB NEC (EC) Speakerphone 1 Out

(NEC=Non-Echo Cancelling, EC=Echo Cancelling)

USB Sound Card 2 In

USB Sound Card 2 Out

Active

LED indicating the presence or absence of an audio signal.

false / true

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
ClosedUCI Control

These controls are found on the Configuration tab for the TSC-7t, the other TSCs display when the control panel is opened.

Control

Function

Default / Range

Log Off

If a user is required to log on to the TSC, this button can log them off. Refer to Q-SYS Administrator "User Control Interfaces" topic for User Logon details.

N/A

UCI

Displays the name of the UCI currently running on the TSC. You can change the currently running UCI if the UCI Assignment is set to Dynamic.

User Defined

Page

Displays the name of the currently selected page in the UCI. You can click this field and change the viewed page.

N/A
ClosedScreen Control

These controls are found on the Configuration tab for the TSC-7t, the other TSCs display when the control panel is opened.

Control

Function

Default / Range

Backlight

Controls the brightness of the screen back-lighting.

0% to 100%

Dim Timeout

(minutes)

Sets the time from when the screen was last touched until the screen is dimmed.

0 to 9999

Off Timeout

(minutes)

Sets the time from when the screen was last touched until the unit is turned off.

If log on is required for the UCI, when this time expires, the user must log on to the UCI again.

0 to 9999

On

Momentary button to turn the TSC display On form a Dim or Off condition.

N/A

Dim

Momentary button to dim the TSC display form an On or Off condition.

N/A

Off

Momentary button to turn the TSC display Off form a Dim or On condition.

N/A

Disable Popup Numpad

 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. Off / On
ClosedProperties
ClosedAll Touchscreens

Property

Function

Choices

Name

Identifies the Touchscreen component in Q-SYS Designer, enabling the connection between the design and the physical Touchscreen. This name should be the same as the Touchscreen Device Name in the Configurator. Click in the Name property and type the Name.

The name must follow standard naming conventions. The Configurator restricts the name according to the following:

ASCII characters a - z (case insensitive)

Digits 0 - 9

Hyphen (cannot be at the beginning or end of the name)

Underscore (acceptable with a Q-SYS implementation)

No other characters, symbols, punctuation, or blank spaces.

User input

Location

User defined Location for the Touchscreen. The Location helps to group hardware according to its physical location.

User input

Is Network Redundant

(Only
TSC-7 or TSC-7t)

Indicates if the Touchscreen is connected to redundant networks.

TSC-7t only: If "Is Network Redundant" is set to Yes, the "USB Audio Endpoints" for the selected TSC-7t are not available. If the "USB Audio Endpoints" Speakerphone or Soundcard is set to Yes, the "Is Network Redundant" property is not available.

Yes / No

Is Required

When the hardware is not connected to Q-LAN:

When Is Required is set to Yes, the Status is "Missing" / Red if the hardware does not exist on the network. This is the default behavior.

When Is Required is set to No, the Status 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.

Refer to Dynamic Pairing for more information.

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

(TSC-7t only)

 Must have one of the USB Audio Endpoints set to Yes. When Verbose is set to Yes, the Input and Output details display in the Control Panel.  

Orientation

(G2 TSCs only)

The TSC-47-G2, TSC-55-G2, TSC-80-G2, and TSC-116-G2 can be installed in an upside down position. To prevent the need of reinstalling the unit, you can select one of the "flipped" Orientations in the Properties.

Landscape

Landscape (flipped)

Portrait

Portrait (flipped)

UCI Assignment

The choices are Static, only the specified UCI is used, and Dynamic you can select the UCI when the UCI is running.

Static/Dynamic

UCI

This field can be edited only when the UCI Assignment is set to Dynamic. With the UCI Assignment set to Static, the name of the assigned UCI displays in this field, but cannot be changed.

Use the pull-down list to select the UCI assigned to this TSC component.

Based on UCIs defined
ClosedUSB Bridging (TSC-7t)

Property

Function

Choices

USB Bridge Name

The Name given to the USB Bridge. Default name is from the name in the TSC-7t or I/O-8 Flex network Name, for example, TSC-7t-1. This field cannot be empty.

User Input

USB Audio Bridge

Provides the capability of passing audio via USB.

Disabled – Default selection.

Speakerphone (1 x 1) – Provides a speakerphone with an input and output component, each having 1 audio connection.

Sound Card (2 x 2) – Provides a sound card with an input and output component, each having two (stereo) audio connections.

Speakerphone and Sound Card – Provides one speakerphone and one sound card with the same capabilities as described above.

Advanced – (I/O-8 Flex Only ) Allows up to any combination of four speakerphone / sound cards.

Speakerphone Mode

This selection is available only when Speakerphone or Speakerphone and Sound Card is selected in the USB Audio Bridge Property.

Indicates if the Q-SYS design has Echo Cancelling or does not have Echo Cancelling. This information is provided to the PC or Mac operating system so it can determine whether or not to use its own echo cancelling.

Echo Cancelling (EC)

Non-Echo Cancelling (NEC)
ClosedControl Pins

Pin Name

Value

String

Position

Pins Available

Screen

Backlight

0 – 100

0 – 100%

0.00 to 1.00

 Input / Output

Dim

Trigger

 Input / Output

Dim Timeout

(minutes)

0 – 9999

0 – 9999

0 to 1.00

 Input / Output

Disable Popup Numpad

0

1

no

yes

0

1

 Input / Output

Off

Trigger

 Input / Output

Off Timeout

0 – 9999

0 – 9999

0 to 1.00

 Input / Output

On

Trigger

 Input / Output

UCI

Current Page

Text edit

 Input / Output

Current UCI

Text display

Output

Log Off

Trigger

 Input / Output

Logged In

0

1

false

true

0

1

Output

USB Bridging and USB Audio (Speakerphone and Sound Card – TSC7t Only)

Active

0

1

false

true

0

1

Output

Reset Counters

Trigger

 Input / Output

SRC-

Text display

Output

SRC+

Text display

Output

Total Samples

Text display

Output
USB Connected

0

1

false

true

0

1

 Output

TSC-7t Only

Clock Grandmaster Name

(TSC-7t only)

Text display

Output

Clock Offset From Master

(TSC-7t only)

0.000 to n

0 ms to n ms

0 to 1.000

Output

Clock Parent Port Name

(TSC-7t only)

Text display

Output

LAN A/B Input Stream Details

Text display

 

LAN A/B Input Stream OK

0

1

false

true

0

1

Output

LAN A/B Input 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

All TSCs

Identify

0

1

false

true

0

1

 Input / Output

Reboot

Trigger Input

 Input

Touchscreen Status

0

1

2

3

4

OK (green)

Compromised (orange)

Fault (red)

Unknown (red)

Updating (blue)

0

0.250

0.500

0.750

1.00

Output

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